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Twitter’s “#lazyweb” … or the “#humancuratedweb
Interesting post and info graphic: http://www.fastcodesign.com//1664402/infographic-of-the-day-how-twitter-exposes-googles-limits I’ve done this before, just posted a questions to my Twitter/Facebook feed, hoping for a good recommendation on a restaurant or product purchase. As I comented on the post: #lazyweb is part of it, but, as you note, I’d propose it’s something like the #humancuratedweb that’s prompting these requests. [...]
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Ah, the iCloud…
Just read this great post about Apple and Google and their versions/spins on the Cloud. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/ With iPad/iPhone and now OS X Lion, you don’t save documents anymore. They save automatically — but an easier way to think about it is that they just exist, as is, in realtime on all your devices. … They just [...]
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“Web UI Themes” in Business Apps
Was pointed towards this recent blog poll on some interface methods and techniques that could be applied to improve the user experience of business applications. Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications – view post The “winners” although there are clearly a diverse set of methods that seem to rise [...]
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Interview-based Tasks, Jared Spool
http://www.uie.com/articles/interview_based_tasks/ Reviewing this article from 2006 from EUI and Jared Spool struck a few key points: “Scavenger-hunt tasks work best when you’ve thoroughly researched the types of things people look for on the site. Our tasks came from extensive interviews and field research. Unfortunately, many times, teams just make up their tasks without doing the [...]
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Usability Testing… your own designs
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 [...]
