Old-school readers of UsabilityBlog may remember my (ranty but well-reasoned) diatribe against EULA’s and how they’re presented in software user interfaces. (Also check out my follow-up posts here and here.)
This picture I took the other day reminded me how easy it is to corrupt and degrade the user experience with obtuse [...]
Check it out now. Today. Go on, you know you want to. And here’s the scary thing: IT’S STILL BEING UPDATED REGULARLY. How scary/awesome is that?
Here’s the URL: http://www.Havenworks.com.
I should also post Ling’s Cars. I’ll get around to that this week. In the meantime, enjoy HavenWorks, and try not to have [...]
This post grew out of my response to a question on the IxDA discussion board. Russ Wilson, fellow Austinite, UX VP at a large software co., and all-around good guy, posed this question:
I’d like to get people’s opinions on the value of “company-wide” design guidelines (for software applications/websites)?In theory, design guidelines could help to remove [...]
Y’know that last post of mine where I pointed out that I didn’t know what to do with the “Yes” button?
I discovered what that button does. It’s probably the second-worst case scenario. (First worst-case scenario is that it makes you lose data or a setting you’ve selected.)
It CLOSES THE WINDOW.
Classic. You just can’t make up [...]
I just took this screenshot this morning. Here’s the situation: I’d just installed new trackpad drivers on one of my Windows laptops. This laptop’s trackpad is a bit hinky, so I knew I wanted to get into the trackpad’s control panel and make some settings changes.
So I clicked the trackpad’s system [...]
This is just a quick pointer to my latest UXmatters column, which is a follow-on to my article from September about the perils and pitfalls of testing your own designs.
In this follow-on, I revisited some of my more bombastic points about testing one’s own designs. Thanks to some excellent comments by several colleagues (and colleague-slash-wife), [...]
