Origin: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/12/testing-your-own-designs-redux.php The challenge in dealing with conformitory bias – “People can reinforce their existing attitudes by selectively collecting new evidence, by interpreting evidence in a biased way or by selectively recalling information from memory.” – is real. Getting “over yourself” and seeking out valid user testing and feedback is a tough call when you’re doing [...]

http://blog.mapquest.com/2009/12/11/street-level-imagery-comes-to-mapquest-com-as-360-view/ One of the more major projects that I’ve worked on at MapQuest is out in the “wild” and getting use. It’s midway through the first week of MapQuest’s street level imagery. Clearly on a much limited coverage than Google, and will forever be (Google’s probably recording video of the bottom of the the ocean [...]

Was just checking out this web/iPhone app that helps organize and prioritize things to get done. Like the interface, multiplatform action and will see how it goes, just downloaded the IPhone app and will test it out. Action Method http://www.actionmethod.com/

http://bokardo.com/archives/what-metric-are-you-designing-to-improve-today/ I keep going back to this post by Josh Porter about metrics to design to, rather than focusing on aesthetics and appearance, clear design values, meet that need when the time is right, but most importantly design to solve a problem, find a solution, make an improvement, set a metric, a goal and look [...]

An interesting review of Twitter’s new site design – from the perspective of a content provider of “tweets”: http://ritubpant.com/why-twitters-new-design-totally-misses-the-mark/ His points are valid, that in Twitter’s new design the core function of social network is overshadowed by the emerging core function of search (clearly dependent on the successful social network use and content provision). But [...]