Tag: usability
Users’ Pagination Preferences and ‘View All’
When providing a choice of display options, the computer should almost always respect the user’s stated preference and employ it as the default the next time around. I am amazed at how many sites and applications don’t do this and instead force users to repeat their choices again and again. In short do pagination but […]
inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection
That is practically the definition of great software, causing your users delight in the everyday workings.
Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times
Media companies respect their customers or maybe not.
My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome
That pretty much sums up every bit of experience of Android I’ve ever heard.
Daring Fireball – The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM
When I posted the link about Windows 8 being able to run normal desktop apps, I somewhat flippantly said that it “could keep Windows 8 from being truly awesome”, this is why.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users
Wikipedia’s mobile version while typically not known for it’s usability is used as a good example of hiding information until needed.
J-P Teti – The iPad is 99% more open than any other computer
The iPad does more or at least is perceived as doing more, that’s truly is what matters.
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.
Cennydd Bowles – End hover abuse now
A reasonable argument for not using hover to to show new information.