In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]
Entries Tagged as 'User Experience'
UX Bookshelf
July 19th, 2008 · 6 comments so far
Tags:Books·Inspiration·Methodology·Pioneers·User Experience
TweetDeck stream of consciousness
July 14th, 2008 · 7 comments so far
Preamble
In my opinion, Twitter is a powerful vehicle for synchronous communication (Asychronous = e-mail; Synchronous = AIM). It’s happening in real-time, and while it’s often called a micro-blogging platform, I think that’s a misnomer. It’s quite different than a blog — a centralized stream of content curated by one or many people. By contrast, Twitter [...]
Tags:Pain·Tools·Twitter·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
My Beef with the NYC Taxicab Touchscreens
July 7th, 2008 · 5 comments so far
If you’ve ridden in a NYC taxicab in the past 6 months, you’ve likely noticed the touchscreen TV in the back seat. At first I thought this was a great innovation — GPS-powered maps to show the distance between me and my destination, real-time local news, restaurant reviews and events listings.
Then I tried using one.
As [...]
Tags:Design·Touchscreens·Usability Evaluations·User Experience
Plurk You
June 20th, 2008 · 5 comments so far
I’ve been wanting to write about Plurk for a while. Everyone seemed to be so enamored with it when it first launched, but maybe that was because Twitter was experiencing serious downtime and people were pissed off — not because it was anything actually worth being excited about.
The first time I logged on, I had [...]
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
Bluefly don’t bother me
June 13th, 2008 · 1 comment so far
It’s been hot in NYC lately. Very hot. So it’s time to buy some more dresses. But being the busy woman that I am, I don’t have a ton of time to go shopping. I decided to check out a few websites to see if anything caught my eye. I’ve never shopped at Bluefly.com, but [...]
Tags:Pain·User Experience



