Tag Archives: user experience

Sadly

April 30th, 2010

I’m not sure “sadly” is the right word, “inconveniently” feels more apt. Who’s at fault here? Chrome for not being able to read a file from disk or Firefox for having a strange lock on that file? I have to deal with this as a user? It’s no wonder people don’t upgrade.

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The experience belongs to the user

April 12th, 2010

No design survives contact with the user. Just like most people change the house they live in, most people change design artifacts to suit their needs and taste. The Experience belongs to the User, from 52 Weeks of UX.

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Vaultpress copywriting

March 31st, 2010

Really nice mad-libs style form on the Vaultpress beta-application. The hint text has real character too; “I’m most interested in VaultPress because [aliens are after my server].”

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Where to begin?

March 4th, 2010

Incomprehensible industry jargon? Check. (What is a “TOD”, why would I care?) Apostrophe abuse? Check. Weirdly formatted unreadable text? Check. Poorly designed machine with usability failures leading to poorly designed poster to cover same? Check. I don’t know what pisses me off more; that the process of collecting tickets is so badly designed it requires a sign like this […]

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Minor data loss

March 2nd, 2010

…losing your read position is a form of minor data loss. Marco Arment sweating the details on how he deals with the iPhone status bar scrollback in instapaper.

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