The difficulty of simple design – part 1
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 Posted in Design, Usability, Web products | No Comments »The hardest part of being a designer is choosing what goes into the product. Deciding what should and shouldn't go in is actually a very difficult choice. You don't want it to be overcomplicated, but you want to have a competitive ...
Why I’m passionate about usability
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Usability, Web products | No Comments »There was a great Schneier post about why he is so 'into' security, and how his mindset differs from so many other people. I was thinking tonight about why I'm so passionate about user experience and how to improve its ...
Ranking crowdsourced data with curves
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in Design, Usability, Web products | No Comments »I'm a big fan of user review sites. I've been using TripAdvisor since at least 2002 to help plan my journeys, and Yelp is my new favourite site since moving to the US. Crowdsourcing information is usually a pretty good way ...
Does anyone actually notice a website being ‘free’?
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Design, Web products | No Comments »I know that 'freemium' is a popular business model at the moment, but do everyday web users really notice this when they're using a site? Personally I always assume a site is free and am surprised/annoyed when it isn't, unless it ...
Why isn’t anyone talking about Google’s spam problem?
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Web products | No Comments »Sometimes when I'm searching for a particular product or service, the most frustrating thing is the way Google brings up mostly things to purchase. For example, recently I knew that a direct flight between Sydney and New York used to ...
Cuil.com – the next Google?
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Design, Startups, Web products | No Comments »From the way Mike Arrington carries on about it (oh and a bit more here too), you'd think so. My initial impressions are quite different (to be fair, he does state "...it doesn’t appear to have the depth of results ...
Spamming users
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues, Usability, Web products | No Comments »One of the great things about Australia is we have a very strong department in the government called the ACCC. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission does a great job of keeping things fair in Australia between businesses and consumers. ...
Bubble 2.0
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Bay Area, Startups, Web products | No Comments »Annoying parodies aside, this is pretty spot-on. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I]
Isn’t Twitter a company that sells car parts?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Tech issues, Web products | No Comments »Amusing video (sadly only for a small group of people). [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvKbv3FNW00]
Why doesn’t Google Reader support comments or discussions?
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Web products | No Comments »There was an interesting article that got linked on Hacker News the other day the asked why comments on news stories couldn't be drawn to a central location (I read way too many articles and the breadcrumbs in my brain ...
