http://uxnerd.com Thu, 20 May 2010 13:02:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This, together with a copycat review of Apple's latest gadget (whatever that is at the moment you're reading this) is the kind of post that I never though I would write here: "10 worst usability mistakes", "10 best website designs", etc. But I would like to think that I'm vindicated ... http://uxnerd.com/2010/05/4-bits-of-design-wisdom-that-may-come-in-handy-some-day/ As designers, we always concern ourselves with graceful product life cycles, re-use, recycling... anything that can deliver us form the trendiness-issued pile of garbage that we don't want to leave as our footprint. I know I do, you can read about it here, or go for this article by the ... http://uxnerd.com/2010/05/ying-yang-design/ One of the toughest recurrent moments in my job is the "qualitative research moment". The moment when I have to convince someone to do some in-depth user study with a few participants to produce a list of qualitative results and derive design recommendations. Whether I suggest observing users or interviewing ... http://uxnerd.com/2010/04/qualitative-research/ I want to write today about measuring subjective qualities. I'm going to talk about "comfort", but it applies to lots of other things: "easeness of use", "satisfaction", "goodness", whatever you can think of that can't be measured on a scale (i.e. scales: °C, meters, number of errors). I'm working on ... http://uxnerd.com/2010/03/comfort-o-meter-how-to-measure-the-subjective/ 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/