Steve Krug’s new book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems is essentially a companion book to his first, very successful book on usability “Don’t Make Me Think”. While the first book focused on design, this new book is all about testing…

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) posted a list of things their readers want to see in iPhone 4.0. Flash made it on the list with 80% support. “Almost 80% of us want Flash, even if it’s a bad idea.” Personally, I’d love to see Flash work on the iPhone. There are so many sites and apps on [...]

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) posted a list of things their readers want to see in iPhone 4.0. Flash made it on the list with 80% support. “Almost 80% of us want Flash, even if it’s a bad idea.” Personally, I’d love to see Flash work on the iPhone. There are so many sites and apps on [...]

Personally, I’d love to see Flash work on the iPhone. There are so many sites and apps on the Web that use it that it would most certainly be something users will benefit from. But, this just isn’t going to happen — at least through the phone’s Safari browser that is. The reason for this has nothing to do with technical problems; it’s all about Apple’s strategic vision for the device…

Personally, I’d love to see Flash work on the iPhone. There are so many sites and apps on the Web that use it that it would most certainly be something users will benefit from. But, this just isn’t going to happen — at least through the phone’s Safari browser that is. The reason for this has nothing to do with technical problems; it’s all about Apple’s strategic vision for the device…

A lot of interesting and valuable discussions take place in the comments of the posts here on the blog. I think it would be useful to have a dedicated platform to take these discussions even further. So today I’m opening up a new section of the site: the UsabilityPost Forum. Access it from the menubar above or go directly to: forum.usabilitypost.com

A lot of interesting and valuable discussions take place in the comments of the posts here on the blog. I think it would be useful to have a dedicated platform to take these discussions even further. So today I’m opening up a new section of the site: the UsabilityPost Forum. Access it from the menubar [...]

I see the term “high quality” used quite a lot when reading descriptions of what a good product should be, or indeed companies advertising their own products. But this term is ultimately meaningless. Quality is a characteristic or attribute of something. The screen on that new device can be described as “high quality” but that won’t [...]

Every article I read on writing content for the Web revolves around one key idea: make the content easy to read. It’s all about making it scannable, writing great headlines and headings, and using simple and clear language. But before you follow that advice you need to answer this: why? Why make the content easy to [...]

A while back I wrote a post on why we still use paper. I’ve talked about the idea of consumption of digital content, mainly textual content. We still read books and magazines because they’re much more suited for consumption — it’s just much easier to sit comfortably in an armchair read a book than to [...]

In user interface design we have a thing called design patterns, or more specifically, user interface patterns — tried and tested ways of building interface elements, or sets of elements together, that solve a given problem. User interface patterns include things like drop-down menus, search boxes, value sliders, scrollbars, progress meters, forms, and so on. [...]

Here’s an interesting interface element: a search and a drop-down menu in one. Search boxes now use dropdowns for live results and suggested searches but here it’s used as a basic navigation menu, combined with an ability to just type and search for what you want. This is from Giraffe Restaurants website by Engage Interactive. Here’s what the box looks [...]

I’ve finally received my Wave invitation and have been playing around a little bit with Google’s app for it. One interesting thing in the Wave app interface is the scrollbars. Google have designed their own scrollbar which has the arrows on the actual scroller itself and the length of the scrollbar also reflects the length [...]

I’m not really an expert at cooking but I do love to watch professionals cook. I mean Michelin star level professionals. What these guys produce is really amazing and its also interesting to see just how much work some of these dishes involve and how many unique techniques are used. It’s not just food really, [...]