16 posts tagged with usability
Thoughts on mnmlsm
In Mark Pilgrim’s recent post on Minimalism, he rationalises the simplifying of his blog design by completely removing all superflous and redundant functionality from his pages in favour of the tools natively supported by the web browser itself (a modern one, at least). His list includes:
- No page titles in favour of the browser window’s title bar
- Feed Autodiscovery in
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 3, 2005:
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
The oldies continue to be goodies – or rather, baddies – in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
There’s value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on the agenda of things to be fixed. Because these mistakes continue
Joel on Software on the iPod
Joel on Software on the iPod:
Or look at the iPod. You can’t change the battery. So when the battery dies, too bad. Get a new iPod. Actually, Apple will replace it if you send it back to the factory, but that costs $65.95. Wowza.
Why can’t you change the battery?
My theory is that it’s because Apple
Were they even thinking?
There’s good design. There’s bad design. Then there’s the “holy crap! what the hell were they thinking?” kind.
Listed on netdiver’s Best of the Year 2004 page, AmoebaCorp: Graphic Design and Visual Communications Company in Toronto. I only clicked on their listing … view full post
Introducing Musica Digital
I’ll keep it constructive.
Introducing Musica Digital, South Africa’s first digital music store, which I discovered via Paul’s own review.
First impressions last, and this was mine – a poorly designed page reading:
The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 6 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP,
Usability News 6.2
Usability News 6.2 issue is out – worth a read if your work is web-related.
A new Firefox theme
I started a new Firefox theme this weekend. It remains to be seen how far I’ll get. The Firefox project is approaching a milestone 1.0 release and it would be nice to have it done by then. In the meantime, check out … view full post
The What, Why, and How of User-Centered Design
Usability 101: the What, Why, and How of User-Centered Design.
This is the article to give to your boss or anyone else who doesn’t have much time, but needs to know the basic usability facts.
Launch popup windows properly
No real news to report, other than that this evening we’re going to check out a couple of flat shares in the area, for potential permanent accommodation. Hopefully by next week, our living conditions will be (at least) habitable.
Surfing some websites, I stumbled upon the site for Agency Republic via … view full post
How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks
I was ranting about Blogger’s permalink URIs a while ago. Relating to that, I just picked up on this post: ‘How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks’ over at mpt, which in turn is inspired by Julian Missig. But as always, nobody says is better than the Mozilla UI man himself. Worth reading if … view full post