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Great! Microserfs online. Have I posted this before? 5:04:27 PM |
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Interesting article on interfaces as narrative at ALA 12:32:32 PM |
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Potentially useful article on a different form of usability test: Cognitive Walkthroughs. On second thoughts, this is just deck testing. 12:31:52 PM |
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Long but worthwhile article from James Gleick, in the NY Times. I particularly liked: “I have joined what the Japanese are calling the oyayubizoku (the thumb tribe)” 12:29:44 PM |
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Airlines run into the tiering paradox: How do you deal with Gold Card Executive Club members when they’re flying economy? 10:45:49 AM |
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The return of big consulting. 10:28:55 AM |
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Valid point. Simple is often better in terms of reading on the web. 10:18:36 AM |
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Comparison of PHP, Perl (CGI) and Java Servlets. No earth-shattering conclusion, but it’s still pretty good. 10:16:47 AM |
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Black and White really does live up to the hype. Here’s a glimpse into how the Game AI works. 10:05:06 AM |
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Whoops. It really is difficult to suppress information these days. “The SDMI invited challenges to its technology to prevent unauthorized copying, but now it says academics who took part could be taken to court if they explain what they did.” 9:39:03 AM |
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This is such a dotcom business plan! Tagger’s Best Friend. A fledgling wireless application allows users to leave floating messages wherever they go. 2:38:44 PM |
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Web taxonomies. This shows that user-generated taxonomies can be very powerful. You have to make sure that your users can generate them, either directly or through usage analysis of web logs / traffic patterns. 12:17:10 PM |
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Design vs engineering in building the Kyocera smartphone. 12:57:48 PM |
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This seems like great news for fully encrypted web transactions. 12:50:31 PM |
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Unusual interview with Ray Ozzie about the thought processes behind Groove. I’m beginning to like it more and more the more I hear about it. 12:46:24 PM |
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Great debunking article about user-centric design in software (including the web, of course). 12:35:05 PM |
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Online style guide for Websites – a good one. Now to find the time to read it… 6:53:07 PM |
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Frightening times for internet advertising. 2:39:39 PM |
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Great search on Internetworld on their website reviews. Not keen on the name – deconstructing – but that’s what it is. 2:37:58 PM |
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So some VCs are smarter than the bigger investment banks. I guess you’d expect the veecees to come out on top here? 2:16:39 PM |
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What is it like to be a bat listening to Santana? 2:10:10 PM |
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Useful reviews of a book on problem solving. The summary of the key factors is good. 2:06:30 PM |
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eTunnels tested response rates of three e-mail formats in March 2001: text messages, standard HTML e-mail and more sophisticated HTML mailings. All three types of messages, sent to eTunnels’s B2B customers, used the same subject line. Text recorded a 0.1% response rate, standard HTML achieved a 1.4% rate and the more lavish HTML scored a 2.1% rate. 2:00:40 PM |
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This is good stuff on the 3Cs of usability testing: Collect, compare and choose. A strong message for task-driven design of digital services. 1:58:15 PM |
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These guys look interesting: MarketPerform. I doubt their business model will hold up, but c’est la vie. 1:55:07 PM |
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Minitel is still doing the business – double the number of web subscribers in France. No wonder the internet flopped there – if people are already paying for something else, who cares about the Net? 1:52:43 PM |
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Maybe this should concern me? 1:44:12 PM |
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I’m not convinced by Jakob’s intranet principles. There are some mighty big numbers in there… 1:37:20 PM |
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It’s not just high heels that cause problems. 1:33:00 PM |
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So The Economist has caught up with the usability revolution: Design Darwinism. It looks like I’m not quite as far ahead of the game as I thought. NB it always used to amuse me reading articles in New Scientist that made it through to The Economist a few months or years later. 12:35:58 PM |
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Good article about JavaScript. 11:42:02 AM |
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Read em all. And weep. Or laugh, depending on whether you got caught up in the fray. 10:34:44 PM |
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Jakob thinks we’re losing billions (a hundred) because Intranets often suck. Big number, but the idea is right. 10:31:31 PM |
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Oh, this is a keeper! Matt Haughey sends us to DejaVu, a cool service that emulates old browsers with suprising accuracy. [scobleizer] 4:09:43 PM |
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Two good color sites: Paletteman and Colors 4 webmasters. 4:00:04 PM |
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Great review of Black & White: Playing God. 3:56:39 PM |
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An interesting looking tool – free web stats (obviously you contribute to their pool, but that’s not such a problem). 3:47:40 PM |
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Interesting article from the MIT Technology Review: Corporation, Know Thyself. I wonder if this “magic” portal development system will work any better than the others I’ve seen. [via Tomalak] 9:46:55 AM |
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These are great utilities (and free!) for Excel. I recommend. The main problem is that there are so many, I’ll never remember to use the relavant ones… 9:44:39 AM |
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Now, if only everyone worked this way…
Quote of the month: “The malleable UI and the cascading business logic turn isolated corporate data silos and Web data into relational databases that are easily managed by the business professional who needs the information. It’s nothing short of remarkable!” Referred to here.
Great story about the Viant / Scient era.
Interesting page on consultants at eCompany.
Quite an interesting new search engine. It combines metacrawler with northernlight to reasonable effect. My gut feeling is that I’ll still prefer google!
Extreme Programming – apparently two heads are better than one. How does this work re: flow?
Another good article by Dan Bricklin on using metaphors for interface design. He’s reasonably OK with wizard type interfaces, thank god.
The internet as jellyfish
Find out what people want and develop for that. Agreed.
Jakob says we should empower users. He’s probably right. Question: do users want to be empowered?
Tog says ReplayTV should be stopped. He’s right.
Techie, but ultimately unsatisfying article about what’s going on with routing on the Internet.
Transmedia. The new NNGroup attempt at world domination? Or to get into the seriously large corporates’ pockets?