17 January 08 |
Stop Web Pollution
Here is a great list of resolutions for many of us for this year. I know it’s late. But anyway. Stop Web pollution.
11 January 08 |
2008
It is 2008!
Year of potato.
It is probably going to be year of Gphone
And may be year of Google TV.
I also hope we will see new prominent players in social web and new ways of collaboration between people.
I’m still excited about Adobe’s Flex and Air. Don’t really think that Silverlight will take off.
I’m still fascinated with user experience design and emotional design and looking forward to new ideas and breakthroughs in this field.
I will try to stay current and will make sure I eat a lot of potato this year.
23 August 07 |
Design for social interaction
It is interesting to see how web economy evolves. When you look at it from perspective of developing relationship between different economy agents you notice many similarities with real world economy the way we know it.
Growing number of agents, institutionalization, rising competition even revolutions in the way business is done. What’s interesting is that what took centuries in the real world in internet economy takes years or even months.
Now all the heat is on social value of communication between business agents and between society members. The reason is that our modern society is becoming more and more equal to the internet society as more and more people get involved in this phenomena.
And like in real economy era of mass production mass media and social interaction and control finds reflection online but in much more surprising and interesting ways that we are just starting to realize.
Well anyway, with all the attention on social aspect of web it is worth noting that there is big interest in social design too. More and more companies are starting to pay attention to using masses for adding value to their propositions and for marketing their products and services but the science of social design is very new. Of course there is a lot of research and work done on social interaction in general but working that into creating user interfaces is new for everybody.
I’m really excited about following development of this new dimension of design and would be glad to find interesting resources.
So far this website attracted my attention – bokardo.com
Hopefully I will be able to share more finding in the nearest future.
19 June 07 |
Summer is here
Heat is coming to town.
Summer of 2007 is starting to slowly melt my brains. So many things are new and exciting but I can’t even list them in my head.
Once I get out of this mental slow down, ask me about t-shirt design and about touchscreens and i-phone user experience design.
3 April 07 |
E-xperience
How about a new word?
E-commerce User Experience = User E-xperience.
Definition:
User E-xperience is perception of a shopper on interaction with a business entity offering products for sale over internet.
This includes use of a website as a main source of information and vehicle for making transaction, delivery of a product, packaging and product quality, service during and after purchase and other aspects of e-commerce.
Technorati tags: ecommerce experience usability design
26 January 07 |
Google have unwittingly exposed private user names and passwords
In addition to loosing access to it’s own accounts Google can give access to your accounts to other people too.
Not a big deal. Everybody makes mistakes. Oops. Again.
Obviously they reacted pretty fast to that when security experts from Finjan told them about the problem.
Google agreed that they left users’ login and email information absolutely unprotected and publicly available. That information could be easily used to compromise privacy of more than a dozen of users.
Yay Google. That’s what organizing the world’s information is about!
Technorati tags: google
25 January 07 |
CSS mockups with Photoshop?
I already complained about lack of tools for designers to work on websites design, not just page design. Of course i’m not alone there. And some people are trying to find ways to make our favorite applications produce better results.
Is it working?
I’d say read this article and be the judge.
Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop by Casper Voogt
Technorati tags: photoshop
15 December 06 |
Download time. How important is it?
I stumbled upon this research – The Truth About Download Time from User Interface Engineering website. And it makes you think that you should be more critical to what users say about your site and try to find the real problem they are referring to.
26 September 06 |
Speaking at Webmaster Jam Session
Yesterday I returned from Dallas Texas, where I was speaking on Webmaster Jam Session conference. Guys from Coffecup did an awesome job organizing the conference and inviting really nice speakers. I was actually a little bit intimidated to speak together with all those famous people.
All in all the conference was very informative and had that warm feeling where you know it’s all about people. You can almost see how web and technologies on web are turning into things that actually care more about providing people best and comfortable tools and experiences. And it was really pleasing to see that developers and designers really understand and value that. A lot of things were discussed and learned. Eric Meyer opened conference with his speech “A Decade of Style”. He really deserves the title CSS guru and you can see how passionate he is about the subject.
I really enjoyed Jared Spool’s speech on how users navigate through sites. I read his paper on this before but hearing it from him directly was so much better and much more fun.
Great presentation from Nick Finck, on layout standards and techniques.
Unfortunately I couldn’t attend all the sessions. Conference was divided in two rooms and everybody had to pick which sessions to attend. I was talking about user experience in ecommerce on session named “ecommerce for everyday people” with John Fallon. We were competing with Andy Budd for attention from attendees. He gave his speech “Be a Web Design Superhero” at the same time and let’s face it he won. But we still had a nice size audience and it gave the session even more of a warm feeling.
Daren Ward did a great job speaking about search engine optimization. He is really a SEO genius. Bryan Veloso talked about photoshop tips and tricks and although he said he doesn’t usually present in public he did a great job. All in all it was an awesome event and I was very pleased with both audience and speakers. Organizers did an incredibly great job with everything and frankly speaking I can’t wait till the next webjam session.
For those who are interested, I’m planning on writing an article based on what I used for my speech. So hang on in there. It’s coming.
And by the way there are some nice pictures from the conference
I went through all the pictures and the only picture of myself I could find is actually the first one in the set
That’s a solid cactus t-shirt I was wearing. Here is more about the t-shirt
Technorati tags: speaking / conference / webjamsession
22 July 06 |
Usability Resources
Here are some usability resources I wanted to keep track of.
I probably will be adding to the list in future. If you have some links to share please go ahead.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
User interface documenation for Mac OS X Operating system.
Motif Usability Style Guide
Open Source usability style guide.
Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software
Government funded Usability Guidelines (US Airforce)
And the new hot topic:
Ajax Usability Guidelinies