Tag: Interaction

UI12: Site Seeing

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Today was the first day of the UI12 conference and I had the pleasure of attending Luke Wroblewski’s one-day course called Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design (which is, incidentally, also the name of his book). Here are some random notes I took at the session:

The goal of […]

Alarm clocks and usability

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We use them every day. In fact, we rely on them. Just about every bedroom comes equipped with one. Without it, I wouldn’t know what time it was when I wake up in the middle of the night and I certainly wouldn’t be able to wake up at […]

Let there be light and dog ears

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As I was skimming through the online book 12 Showbusiness Tools for Your Business: A Theatrical Approach to Experience Design, the chapter called “Let there be light” (p. 13) caught my attention for obvious reasons.
It is hard to over-emphasise the importance of light in experience design. There is […]

Screenshots: Programmer-speak, flow, and WTF

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“The null links below are simply for tab navigation on this page” says the note toward the top of this website. The designer clearly tried to be helpful by explaining two things: 1) text that appears to be a link may not actually go anywhere, and 2) you […]

Leave the cursor alone

I think he’s talking about Yahoo!. Their website is the default home page for a lot of people (especially those who installed the Yahoo! Toolbar), so it does get rather annoying when the website steals your cursor as you’re typing something in the address bar. Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find any information about […]

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