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“ I'm probably responding to less than 1 in 10 emails that are sent directly to me, and even fewer that were sent to a set of people or a list. The usability of email for me has deteriorated so source...

“User testing is time-consuming and expensive, so you probably don't do it as often as you'd like. Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think, says that “hiring someone to conduct a test still costs $5,000 to $15,000, and as source...

logged into a brand new web service today and this was my default profile picture.

“This week, Google has been rolling out a new theming feature into Gmail.  This is likely a welcome and overdue addition for many people who didn't like the default look of Gmail. Unfortuately for everyone else, along with the new source...

“ To address this, teams can design storyboards and prototypes that embed the user interface architecture and use these tools as reference points for designing individual features. To avoid spending too much time up front, teams can design low-fidelity prototypes source...

Del.icio.us is simple and does what it says it does, nothing more nothing less. Ma.gnolia does a little bit more, looks great and is relatively self-explanatory. Furl.net was probably better technology than either Del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia but the user experience more...

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recently acquired what might be the worst toaster in the history of the world. It's pretty fancy and shiny and microprocessor controlled. And it makes toast. But

“I recently posted about how usability testing can slow down launch but speed up success. But usability testing is just one of many elements of user experience research, with others including the ethnographic field studies made popular by Ideo, the source...

also check his head tracking thing, really nice http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

“Jakob Nielsen has written some damn smart things about usability, and his work has probably done great things for the web in general. You hate to beat up on a guy like that, but c’mon, it is beyond ridiculous to source...

A much more powerful version of the classic lightbox JavaScript.

Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop.