Category: User Experience
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Designing data tables
LukeW (from Yahoo) explores some ideas for Refining Data Tables at UXMatters. (Nice illustrations, too!)
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DHTML drag 'n' drop folder tree
Check out this Folder tree with Drag and Drop capabilities based on unordered list tags.
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HCI due for a quantum leap?
At ACM Queue, John Canny, the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, writes about the future of human-computer interaction, For many years HCI has been evolutionary, not revolutionary. Is this about to change?. He begins by making a case for the centrality of HCI in product design: [I[t’s not a…
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Mobile web held back by poor usability
Interesting stats from this article: Poor Usability implicated in Rejection of Mobile Internet: Three quarters (73%) of people with access to the Internet through their mobile phone are not taking advantage of it. Amongst the reasons for not using mobile Internet were being frustrated by slow-loading pages (38%), problems with navigating websites from a phone…
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'The User Is Always Right' and other thoughts about personas
Steve Mulder recently announced to the IA Institute and IxDA mailing list that his book on user research and personas, The User Is Always Right, is now available: If you attended the IA Summit in Vancouver, you might have heard me give a preview of some of the book’s content on adding more science to…
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The effect of tabbed browsing on web analytics
There is a brief article about the growing adoption of tabbed browsing (still very few people use tabs) and how it may effect analyses of web traffic (Web Analytics: The Results of Tabbed Browsing). The article is kind of thin, but provides some useful food for thought, mostly raising questions without providing answers.