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Piracy and the four currencies
‘Whether a player buys or pirates a game depends on how much each service - not product! - “costs” in terms of these four currencies, as well as how much the player values each one.’
copyright  money  usability 
february 2012 by threedaymonk
Personal names around the world
Your assumptions are probably mistaken.
i18n  usability  webdev  society  culture 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Password Policies are Getting Out of Control
‘In fact, I think I have found the most difficult password policy in existence today.’
security  webdev  usability 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen
Scientific analysis is useful as long as you don’t take it too seriously: people hated living in Le Corbusier’s buildings.
usability  design  architecture  software 
february 2011 by threedaymonk
Against chrome: a manifesto
‘Technology users of the world, unite: you have nothing to lose but your bas-relief buttons.’ (That’s UI chrome, by the way, not Chrome the browser.)
usability  design  ui  interface  skeumorphism 
february 2011 by threedaymonk
URL Design
webdev  url  usability 
december 2010 by threedaymonk
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
webdev  usability  psychology  ux  forms 
february 2010 by threedaymonk
No, We’re Not The Stupid Ones at philcrissman.com
‘If I search for “basecamp” in Google and wind up at a mountain climbing equipment supply store instead of the 37signals product I wanted, it is not Google’s fault (or 37signals’, or the camping store’s) if I start banging my head against the screen and asking “Wheerre are my prooooojectsssss?????”’
facebook  google  usability 
february 2010 by threedaymonk
The fine art of degradable interface elements
webdev  javascript  usability  html  jquery  ui  design 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
Browser Size
View Google browser size statistics overlaid on the website of your choice.
webdev  usability  statistics  browser  screen 
december 2009 by threedaymonk
ABtests.com
Find out what other people have learned from A/B testing.
webdev  usability  design 
october 2009 by threedaymonk
The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)
Good stuff.
usability  ux  webdev  interaction  social  internet 
august 2009 by threedaymonk
bitquabit - The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News
‘There is a tremendous amount of spit and polish that goes into making a major website highly usable. A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation.’
webdev  design  usability  ui  programming 
july 2009 by threedaymonk
8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces
webdev  ui  usability  design 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions
Recommended reading for people making websites.
design  usability  psychology  marketing  webdev 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Removes clutter and unreadable styling. Really handy on a small screen.
accessibility  usability  webdev  css 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Better messages for ActiveRecord validation errors
webdev  ruby  rails  validation  usability 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
webdev  usability  algorithms  statistics  mathematics 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
The $300 Million Button
‘We were surprised how much [first time shoppers] resisted registering.’
webdev  design  usability  shopping  ux  business 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Earth to McDonalds.com: It's 2009
‘Mickey D's is old skool. Having a cool web page would be like up-dating a pair of Chuck Taylors.’
webdev  design  usability  marketing 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Bug 460374 – All certificates show not trusted - get error code (MITM in-the-wild)
A great example of how security warnings don't work.
mitm  security  firefox  usability 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
Autocomplete On
Greasemonkey script to re-enable form auto-completion. Good for Delicious and Yahoo.
greasemonkey  delicious  yahoo  usability  autocomplete 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Epic Fail, or, why the users hate us.
Web usability hell.
usability  webdev 
june 2008 by threedaymonk
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
We should all use our own products. It’s the only way we'll find the flaws.
microsoft  usability  windows 
june 2008 by threedaymonk
7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!
webdev  usability  design  reevoo-developer 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Strange Cursor Artifact in Firefox
Ah! So that's what it is. And I thought it was a bug all this time.
firefox  usability 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
The AskTog Bug House: Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs
usability  webdev  design  interface 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
"No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame
The difference between just doing the job and taking pride in your work.
programming  webdev  usability 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Ad-hoc usability testing. Useful.
ubuntu  linux  usability 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
BBC UX 2.0
'More importantly, many of them weren’t even clearly branded as part of the BBC’s digital offering.' Er, no. That's not more important.
bbc  webdev  design  branding  usability 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
When Designers Get Too Clever
Web design anti-patterns and how to avoid them.
webdev  design  usability  reevoo-developer 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly
Website visitors still have trouble with the medium.
usability  webdev  reevoo-developer 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Usability Disaster Story
Fascinating; a good example of how a small problem can have large effects.
usability  webdev  mono 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
PAS 78: Guide to good practice in comissioning accessible websites
BSI specification which ‘outlines good practice in commissioning websites that are accessible to and usable by disabled people.’
usability  webdev  accessibility  pdf 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
As a user, I couldn’t agree more.
usability  webdev 
july 2007 by threedaymonk
Ready to copy?
A good example of how interface vocabulary should speak to the user, not describe the technical details of a system.
linguistics  usability 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
History of the Button
‘Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond.’
interface  design  webdev  usability 
february 2007 by threedaymonk
Websites face four-second cut-off
Users are getting more impatient with slow-loading websites.
reevoo  webdev  usability 
november 2006 by threedaymonk
Push my button
Rehabilitating the forgotten <button> element in HTML.
webdev  css  usability  button 
october 2006 by threedaymonk
Text-Resize Detection
Useful for improving accessibility.
usability  webdev  accessibility  javascript  css 
september 2006 by threedaymonk
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
This study finds that longer lines are read faster.
webdev  usability 
september 2006 by threedaymonk
Creating Passionate Users: Usability through fun
‘All things being equal, fun things are more memorable than things which are not enjoyable.’
reevoo  design  usability  business  fun 
july 2006 by threedaymonk
Humanized Reader
Great concept: bottomless pages. Just try scrolling down.
usability  webdev  reevoo 
july 2006 by threedaymonk
Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
‘Who's been putting the mescaline in the Microsoft kool aid?’
humour  windows  google  usability 
march 2006 by threedaymonk
Complexity causes 50% of product returns
‘Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can’t figure out how to operate the devices.’
reevoo  electronics  usability 
march 2006 by threedaymonk
Usability In The News
Current issues in HCI.
design  usability 
august 2005 by threedaymonk

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