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 …
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 …
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 …
