Category: User Experience

  • Converged mobile devices = iPod killers?

    This article in the Guardian UK, Dump your iPod, the mobile’s taking over suggests that mobile devices are going to supplant dedicated MP3 players as the pocket music player of choice. I do think the idea of carrying a PDA, an MP3 player, a phone, and a text messaging device (crackberry) is unsustainable. Only the…

  • IE7's CSS fixes

    Looks like the Internet Explorer 7 team has been working hard addressing css bugs from the previous beta release (IEBlog : Details on our CSS changes for IE7, via Todd).

  • MobileCrunch blog

    Since we began working with HTC and since I got my Cingular 2125, I’ve been sort of obsessed with the topic of developing sites for the mobile web, and with developments in the mobile space in general. Recently Dan pointed me to the relatively new MobileCrunch blog, and I’ve become, well, addicted. Recommended.

  • Two good articles in ASIS&T's Bulletin

    Austin Govella writes about rich interfaces on the web (think AJAX, Flex, etc.), and Samantha Starmer explains how to sell IA to executives.

  • Digg's emergent IA

    Gene Smith writes in his Atomiq blog The genius of Digg is that it packs a simple user action with the maximum social intent. A digg is a single click – about as simple as it gets – and yet it’s the central component of the community.

  • Rapid usability iterations

    Thomas Vander Wal has an interesting post about quick and intense usability iterations: I definitely see the strong advantages of the intense sessions mixed with the usual longer term development. Finally it seems a broad section of the development world is finally learning that the best way to build out stuff is to sit with…