I love reading magazines, I was subscribed to Fast Company and Wired for several years before coming to NZ. Now, I still receive my UPA (Usability Professional Association) magazine here in NZ. As far as I remember, the UPA magazine has always been wrapped in a sealed plastic bag, which could be frustrating to open. (a [...]
I love seeing an application that caters for two personas like the xe.com iPhone app. Ted The Tourist lives in New Zealand but he is planning a trip to Australia, so he checks the currencies once a week until he buys Australian dollars before leaving. What he needs to know is the value with a [...]
Hey, I just started a flickr group about Great user experience! While working in the usability field, we are often talking about bad and great user experience. I have found several Flickr groups about bad design/bad experience but I haven’t found one that lists great design/great user experience. So here is one.
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 [...]
In a previous post (AA form – three entry fields and one error!), I wrote about how a simple form on the New Zealand Automobile Association (AA) website was finally not as easy as it should have been. I’m quite happy to tell you that AA is doing a new contest and they improved their [...]
Since Bing was launched in last June, a lot of articles have been written about this search engine / decision engine. I tried Bing search engine for images and I found 2 interesting concepts for displaying results. First, if you search Moon (as it’s today the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing), you’ll get from [...]
