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.
After hassling people on Twitter for an invite I finally got my hands on a golden ticket/invite and eagerly jumped into Google Wave. It looks amazing. All those panels, sliders and plenty of workspace. Uncluttered, giving you access to only the tools you need. Once the initial euphoria had subsided, and I actually tried to do …
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
volkswagen.co.uk In my opinion the Volkswagen website isn’t particularly well desgined. I don’t like the tool bar at the top of the page, the floating navigation and the floating cars. The car selector on rollover is presented in a really awful way - calling up the horizontal scrollbar which looks ugly. However, the site does offer …
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 …
Whilst visiting Pro Blogger in search of inspiration, I found a video talking about Google’s Wonder Wheel tool. This is available on Google’s results page by clicking ‘Show options’ and then choosing the ‘Wonder Wheel’ link. This will display your search term as the hub of a wheel and display associated search terms on the spokes. …
