Here’s an interesting article on Web Designer Depot illustrating the subtle updates being made to the layout of Wikipedia. These subtle tweaks harldy alter the layout, but introduce more modern flourishes and usability updates such as moving the search box to the top right. As search forms such a major part of the Wikipedia experience this …
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design from UX Booth. Fascinating, complete and packed with resources.
As it’s approaching the end of the noughties everyone seems to be in a looking backward/looking forward mood. Whilst I come up with my albums of the decade, here’s a couple of interesting links. The first from Noupe with a broad look at what we’ll all be doing in the next five years. Still no jet …
You wait for a useful link for ages and then two come along at once… This was linked to by the BBC Technology website so not exactly a scoop, but very useful research and very much free: 2009 Ecommerce Usability for High Street Retailers
Here’s a very cool new invention from that expert in air moving James Dyson: Latest for the Dyson treatment: it’s the desk fan without blades. Having made revolutionary (pun intended) leaps and bounds in both sucking and blowing, the Dyson desk fan provides a low maintenance and less clunky way of cooling your stress creased brow. The …
I could fill this blog talking about all the great stuff that Smashing Magazine. Suggest you go and bookmark if you haven’t already. Today’s article on 10 Useful Usability Findings provides some fascinating insight. A lot of it is common sense. The ‘Quality Of Design Is An Indicator Of Credibility’ part is something I touched on yesterday …
Loving all the Beatles stuff at the moment, especially the release of the Rock Band game. Whilst the concept of the game doesn’t particularly appeal (playing an actual instrument just seems a more worthwhile use of time), the artwork, illustration and animation is really very good indeed. The opening cinematic evoking the spirit of the band …
