http://uxnerd.com Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:27:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After analyzing the results from the survey, we decided to create a concept that would afford piler and filer styles. We had to create a 3 minute video and a prototype. I think I'll post the prototype, for which we made a comic, just because we had to scrape so ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/11/an-idea-for-the-future-of-tabbed-browsing/ Some months ago, I asked you to complete a questionnaire about your tabbed browsing habits. Thanks! I got 99 responses. What follows is a brief summary of how I analyzed the data, the results I got and some analysis. Later we used the results to design an alternative to tabs ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/11/tabbed-browsing-usage-results/ This post has been in my drafts for a long time, it looked like I'd never get around to finishing it. Probably it was because the design of a remote control for the elderly is not my favorite subject. However, I really enjoyed working on this project and I think ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/07/design-of-a-remote-control-for-elderly-people/ Emoticons were officially born on 19 September, 1982, when Scott Fahlman suggested that people use :-) to distinguish jokes from literal messages on a message board at Carnegie Mellon. Since then, people did a lot of research on the impact of emoticons assuming that emoticons are the facial expressions of ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/emotions-and-emoticons-are-emoticons-the-facial-expressions-of-im/ So we (Natasha and me) finally didn't work on the GPGP application I posted about. You can't always make things that make you proud but you can always make things in a way that makes you proud. So, I guess I reconciled with the world, in a selfish way. We ended ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/what-we-finally-worked-on/ In Buenos Aires, you can often find women selling home grown produce at the entrance of supermarkets. They lay a blanket on the sidewalk and sit on it, next to multiple fruit boxes. In one of these boxes, they usually have a baby. These babies never cry. Actually, the babies ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-with-edit/ Finally, part 3: the toaster. A toaster is a small electric kitchen appliance used to toast slices of bread. It has been around, almost unchanged (in its mainstream version) for more than 100 years. Our interaction with it, I suspect, hasn't changed much either: During our week-long course with Bert Bongers; ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/the-book-the-clock-and-the-toaster-part-iii/ This post is the second part in the series: the clock. As I mentioned before, I had this lecture with Bert Bongers where he introduced the concept of device parsing, which he came up with (if I'm not mistaken). There, together with Dominika, Maria and Valentina, I did the parsing ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/the-book-the-clock-and-the-toaster-part-ii/ You're surely familiar with the talk about how designers should not consider ourselves to be average users because we're experts. There are many anecdotes about systems or products that are perfect for us in so many ways (effectiveness, efficiency, aesthetics) and yet fail to please users. That's why we run ... http://uxnerd.com/2009/06/dog-food/ I want to find out how people use and manage tabbed browsing. To do it, I need your help answering this questionnaire. It has only 7 questions and shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to answer. Thanks for your time :) THIS SURVEY IS NO LONGER ACTIVE http://uxnerd.com/2009/05/some-research-about-tabbed-browsing/