When you think of user interfaces you generally think of screens, buttons, knobs and maybe some documentation on how to use these objects. But lets get away from that for a moment, if you don’t mind.
One of the oldest and most relevant user interfaces is the book. Books generally include page numbers, blocks of text […]
The US Dept. of Health and Human Services have a ‘Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines’ publication available on their web site. It’s a 161mb PDF file. That is ironic, isn’t it?
I’m skimming through this as a prerequisite for a project. Some of it is good common sense. But there’s also some scary specifics in […]
While checking in to MNteractive for the last time before 2008 I noticed an interesting bit of trivia. The last 10 comments added to MnTeractive were all related to old posts pertaining how to fix some very annoying bit of technology:
fischer price fp3 player = headaches for dad
how to cancel a myspace account
how to delete […]
Having a couple extra minutes today, I thought I’d renew my Costco membership online.
Here’s the process I expected:
Click Membership in the top nav of Costco.com
Click on a ‘Renew Now’ button
Enter my membership number and a credit card number
Get back to work
Instead, they made it much more “engaging”:
Click Membership in the top nav of Costco.com
Create an […]
“Nearly every other computer system refuses to recognize curse words, and, in effect, condescend to their users. Apple, by recognizing the reality of English discourse, exhibits respect for their customers.” - Peter Merholz
I found this to be a very interesting read:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/
I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I digress.
I […]
This weekend our 5-year-old decided to eat a screw. That meant I got to catch up on my Golf Digest and Popular Mechanics reading while spending a Saturday in the waiting room of urgent care.
As such, I ran across this article in Popular Mechanics: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital. (* warning…audio plays on […]
Don’t ask me why, but our internal network update announcements are still sent via email in the SNP format which is basically a screen-shot of an access form (old habits die hard…).
So, I went to open one today and realized I don’t have the SNP viewer. So, I go to MS.com to download it and […]
The Japanese have done it again. They’ve created an umbrella with a built-in camera, internet connectivity, and Flickr integration.
[source: randomgoodstuff]
I can imagine getting lost in the rain while walking is a scenario we’ve all been in numerous times and this is the gadget we’ve been waiting for.
My only question- how usable is this? I like […]
“Placing a label right over its input field permitted users to capture both elements with a single eye movement.” - Matteo Penzo
Plus, this layout handles translations very easily as well.
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