Top 10 user experience gurus

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:16 AM EDT ()

This top 10 is based on the number of participants mentioning their favourite gurus names, or work, in the recent Usability and User Experience Report 2007 published by e-consultancy this week.

technology, user-experience, jakob-nielsen, guru

Serendipity

Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:21 AM EDT ()

I recently visited a 'Handel & the Castrati ' exhibition at the Handel House museum, 25 Brook Street,London.

technology, tagging, user-experience, social-media, hendrix, serendipity, handel

Facebook captcha

Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:13 AM EDT ()

I have a work colleague and friend who sometimes acts as a consultant with Interesource, she is blind, and this week I received a Facebook friend request from her. I was overjoyed and thought 'great she's got in here', knowing how inaccessible Facebook is.

technology, accessibility, facebook, captcha

User Experience 2.0

Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:31 AM EDT ()

How do you user test contextual 'intellegent' navigation and information display for web 2.0 sites? .We recently user tested some IA and social concepts for a well know women's online magazine website.

technology, usability, information-architecture, user-experience, metadata, user-testing, prototypes, contextual-navigation

Mojiti

Seeded on Mon Jun 4, 2007 9:28 AM EDT (staff.interesource.com)

I'm sure it's been around for yonks, but a colleague recently drew my attention to the Mojiti application. Mojiti's allows you to personalise online video with your own words, a bit like a Flickr for video.

technology, accessibility, subtitles, bubbleply, mojiti, captions, subply

AOL in copycat design scandal

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:08 AM EDT (staff.interesource.com)

AOL have just launched a new beta homepage and it's a replica of the Yahoo! homepage. What's going on, it's literally a direct copy? Every decent designer with integrity knows you just don't do that - you take inspiration from designs you like and then you make it your own.

yahoo, technology, aol, design

Digital detox

Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:21 AM EDT (staff.interesource.com)

I've been away from Interesource for nearly two weeks and coming back felt like I'd landed on the moon. It's the first time in years I've spent so long away from a computer, the internet and my online world.

technology, digital, detox, online-addiction

Internet Jelly

Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 7:42 AM EDT (staff.interesource.com)

At the beginning of the year the Time magazine's 'Person of the year' cover got me thinking about issues of control and the internet in a global and local context.

technology, china, blogs, internet, free-speech, governance, jell-o, repression, ugc, patti-smith

When is a blog not a blog?

Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2007 8:56 AM EST ()

When is a blog not a blog?

technology, blogs, tumblr, tumblelog

Is it time to cancel WCAG 2.0?

Seeded on Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:12 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

The forever brave and controversial Joe Clark is sticking his neck out again and rightly so. Back in May 2006 he had a few words to say about the impending WCAG 2.0 and now, in a letter to Tim Berners Lee, he proposes cancelling it and just making changes to the existing WCAG 1.0.

technology, accessibility, joe-clark, wcag-2-0

... more on widgets

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:46 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

As a quick aside on my recent post about the wonderful world of widgets, thought I'd mention the Yahoo! widgets blog. There is a particularly good article called 'The ever-changing widget landscape'.

yahoo, technology, widgets

The wonderful world of widgets

Seeded on Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:58 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

I'm getting a bit of an unhealthy widget fixation, perhaps because 2007 is the year of the widget. In 2006 user generated content (UGC) was a big issue and consequently this years focus will be based more around how user's control that content.

yahoo, technology, myspace, accessibility, widget, social-networks, ugc

Discoverability and accessibility

Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:12 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

The visibility and discoverability of accessibility customisation features has always been an issue. What's the point in offering them if they are hidden away? This is exactly the case with the present Windows operating system and most browsers.

technology, accessibility, windows, vista, customisation, discoverability

Beautiful people, ugly site

Seeded on Mon Jan 8, 2007 9:14 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

I suppose the development of exclusive or closed communities is inevitable as the concept of a mass-market deflates and marketing people uncover effective ways to reach clusters of the new prosumers with similar lifestyles and interests.

technology, social-networking, usability, css-design, beautiful-people

Rich Internet Applications vs HTML

Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 1:22 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

(User experience research conveniently forgets accessibility again).

technology, html, accessibility, usability, ria, user-research

Happy New Accessible Year

Seeded on Tue Jan 2, 2007 12:45 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

If you're concerned about the accessibility of the increasing number of Web 2.0 sites that use AJAX then you may want to have an input into the latest work in progress from the WAI working group for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA).

technology, web-2-0, ajax, accessibility, 2007, w3c, wai

2007 web predictions

Seeded on Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:47 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

An excellent post from Read/WriteWeb with predictions for web 2007. Perfect end of year reading. Predictions include RSS going mainstream, Search 2.0 and ramp ups for the mobile web and internet tv.

technology, web-2-0, web, 2007

How many usability consultants does it take to change a lightbulb?

Seeded on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:14 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

I'd be interested to see what people suggest as the punchline for usability consultants and I'll post the best retorts in January. Fire away, and be as rude as you like, that's kind of the point I think?

technology, usability, lightbulb-joke, usability-consultant

Social networking - a bit of Tamagotchi and Koyaanisqatsi

Seeded on Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:10 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

Here are some improvisesd ramblings on social networking sites... I was thinking yesterday that they are a bit like those Tamagotchi Japanese digital pets - don't feed them and they die.

technology, myspace, social-networking, flickr, last-fm, information-ecology, tamagotchi, koyaaanisqatsi

Tony's site in top 3 for accessibility

Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 12:23 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

A new report commissioned by the United Nations as part of its International Day of Disabled Persons discovered that most leading websites fail to be accessible.

technology, tony-blair, accessibility, wcag, website-survey

So much information, so little time

Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 9:37 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

Convert your favourite blog feeds into a podcast to listen at your leisure. A look at the Readspeaker technology - Podcaster. Now you don't have to waste valuable time reading blogs or news at work, but you can listen to them on the way to and from work.

technology, podcasting, podcaster, readspeaker, audio-content

Toilet training

Seeded on Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:39 AM EST (staff.interesource.com)

The bad usability of our office toilet signage

technology, semiotics, signage, interesource, bad-usability

Joe needs patronising

Seeded on Thu Nov 9, 2006 2:19 PM EST (staff.interesource.com)

Joe Clark is setting up an accessibility research project and would like you to show your support by donating some hard earned (or easily come by) cash to help him get by. He intends to raise the 7 million dollars needed for the project himself but needs support while doing this.

technology, accessibility, joe-clark, captioning, accessible-media, micropatronage