Category: User Experience
Alex Payne – Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
Cross platform means it does nothing great and everything sub-par at best.
Inc. – How to Kill a Bad Idea
Start learning to say no and push back against bad ideas.
Subtraction.com – Blu-Ray Blues
I’ve thought about purchasing a Blu-Ray player but I keep avoiding it due to crap like this.
UX Movement – Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit
While submit describes a generic case of what the user is doing (ie. submitting a form) it doesn’t really help the user know what the button is for.
SmartlyEdu Blog – Ugly Software Gives Education a Bad Name
Education software has to be the software that I hear most widely and routinely criticized, especially by people who otherwise have little to no opinion on the design of software in general.
Daring Fireball – Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
I’m in the fence about this, certain elements should retain their conformity for ease of use by users.
Panic Blog – Panic on the Mac App Store
The Mac App Store opened up today and Panic is all on there.
UX Myths – Myth #29: People are rational
The post is an awesome read and ends with a nice list of books to read to explore the subject further.
52 Weeks of UX – Knowing Your Audience: Lessons from the Gaming Industry
Very important tip for designing interfaces is recognizing the audience and thus the focus of the interface.
Coding Horror – Trouble In the House of Google
I’m seeing this start cropping up as well where Google seems to be failing in filtering out spam or content farm sites.