Category: User Experience

  • From Red Herring: Google Gets Customizable

    Users can create customized search engines for their sites to focus on any kind of content. In another round of battle against Yahoo, Google has introduced a customized version of its search engine that will enable bloggers and other web site operators to offer a specialized form of Google to search for specific kinds of…

  • Where no user has gone before

    This article in UX Matters talks about designing breakthrough products and offers some interesting ideas on innovation and solving problems that sometimes people don’t even realize they have. Bonus Extractable content: One of the case studies is Vocera, a client of ours that makes a Star Trek-like ubiquitous communication system. The homepage of the website…

  • Screen Size and Productivity Revisited

    Usability guru Jakob Nielsen defuses Apple’s large display sales ploy with an insightful article here. So much for my new 30″-er on the company tab.

  • Christian Crumlish Elected To IAI Board

    Extractable’s Director of Strategic Services, Christian Crumlish, was recently named to the board of directors for the Information Architecture Institute. The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Founded in 2002, the Institute has over 1000 members in 60 countries. Christian will serve on the board from…

  • W3C roadmap for accessible RIAs

    Rich Internet Application (RIA) formats, such as Ajax, Flex, OpenLazslo, XAML, and so on, are all the rage on the Web these days, but sometimes the tradeoff involved in moving from a clunky-feeling page-at-a-time forms-driven web interface model to the more snappy thick-client feel of RIAs is a loss in accessibility (as well as issues…

  • Google's new AdWords optimizer

    TechCrunch tells us: Google will soon begin offering AdWords advertisers a new tool to experiment with a variety of different landing page layouts in order determine which one gains the most conversions from site visitors. Google Analytics Senior Manager Brett Crosby unveiled the tool, called Google Website Optimizer, this morning at the eMetrics summit in…