Transient feedback

14 January, 2010

It can be an efficient way of providing unobtrusive feedback and make an interface feel cleaner and smarter but doesn’t work in every situation.

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Our designer came up with this, now I want you to implement it

6 January, 2010

User experience and interaction designers, usability and accessibility specialists and information architects often get given a back seat in the design process. Don’t accept it.

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Online conversations: Limitations and opportunities

28 December, 2009

Be mindful of artificial boundaries that limit and guide social interactions on websites.

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Open source software: Designer-developer collaboration

26 December, 2009

How can front-end user interaction and user experience designers get more involved in open source development projects?

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Survey results: Websites that keep users logged in

24 December, 2009

An analysis of the responses to the survey I conducted earlier this week on websites that “remember” users with some interesting perspectives provided on personal information security.

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Remember me?

20 December, 2009

Should websites that require you to log in be focussed on convenience or personal information privacy and security?

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Consistency: You’re just being obsessive-compulsive

12 December, 2009

All this talk of UI and interaction patterns, style guides, Gestalt psychology, pixel accuracy and visual defects … is it really important?

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