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 [...]
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 [...]
If the user can’t use it, it doesn’t work – Susan Dray – President of Dray & Associates It is as simple as that, if your company designs products (web application, car, camera, etc) that can’t be used by the targeted users, you just fail. In her quote, the term user implies specified or targeted [...]
For the last post of 2009, I want to share 3 quotes that I really like! Watch people in their own environments — Peter Merholz, Founding partner of Adaptive Path That’s so true, if you really want to improve a product, watch people using it in their own environment. That’s why, when we facilitate usability [...]
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 [...]
