How Usable is YOUR World?

That’s the way to go! Nobody likes to fill forms. What do you really need to register on a website, sometimes corporations ask you to fill forms longer than a Tax Return; what about a corporation that only ask for your email. One of the good practices of designing forms is to reduce the amount of questions asked. Instapaper does it right. This website allows you to save web pages to read later. Have a look at their registration process. (more…)

Have you ever bought a good bottle of wine and wanted to keep the name to buy that one again in the future? You can write the name down, add a note to your iPhone or BlackBerry or, like my parents were doing several years ago, immerse the bottle for a while and then take the label off. The latter takes time… On a trip to Australia, I discovered a nice way to keep the name of a good bottle. Have a look. (more…)

As an airline company, how would you enhance the flight experience of your customers? Remember, the airline industry is generally risk averse and require a lot of capital to run. I attended a breakfast conference where Hudson Smales (Air New Zealand) and Shailesh Manga (Optimal Usability) talked about the process they went thru to deliver a better experience at Air New Zealand. (more…)

I did a talk last Thursday during the Wellington Web Design Meetup about Data Visualization. It’s incredible how data visualization can be used efficiently to communicate:

• to make a point
• to form a hypothesis
• to help achieve a goal (more…)

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Writer and Aviator

That’s a lovely one, especially when we see so many features proliferating  everywhere…

I attended a Workshop (at Webstock 2010) called Data Visualization that was very insightful. Wikipedia defines data visualization as “the study of the visual representation of data“. It’s incredible how you can present data in different ways and how it can affect the level of reader’s understanding. In fact, data visualization is used to make a point, to communicate raw / unfamiliar data. (more…)