Category: User Experience

Scottish Ruby Conference – Ticket Sales Close Monday 7 Feb, at the latest
PayPal has to be one of the worst payment processors for business it seems on the internet.
February 2, 2011
Your Site, Your Design
More content owners are wishing to make it easier for people to share their content in a well meaning attempt to attract more readers, unfortunately I think they are ruining the thing that people are most interested in, the content itself.
February 2, 2011
Daring Fireball – Push Pop Press
Sounds like a cool idea, though with every book a single app, that makes the idea of producing a book an extensive task more so than just scanning in text and converting some videos.
February 2, 2011
Surat’s Weblr – eHow goes Facebook exclusive for logins and profiles, and here’s why it’s bad
I need an agree over and over button for this article.
January 30, 2011
Mike Cane’s xBlog – Windows 7: The Best iPad Seller!
One of the reasons I moved to a Mac was I spent less time doing maintenance to do what I actually wanted to do, I just do it now.
January 30, 2011
The Invisible – How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
Do you even need to know that this was done by Apple to know only Apple cares that much to work on this?
January 24, 2011
Seth’s Blog – A culture of testing
I really enjoy that last sentence and Netflix is probably one of the great business built up around testing everything possible.
January 24, 2011
Smashing Magazine – Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
Nice little roundup on building designs that respond on the basis of the device and screen size to present the best look to everyone.
January 19, 2011
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – 10 Best Intranets of 2011
Interestingly enough social networking features work really well for intranets, not so surprisingly what makes an effective website is slightly different from what makes a good intranet.
January 16, 2011
Campaign Monitor – When it comes to opting-in for email, un-checked is best
Pretty simple don’t force people to uncheck a box to sign up for your cruddy newsletter, opt-in is a better design and better user experience.
January 16, 2011