A brilliant webcast over at Human Factors International about how the Internet has created a “self-service” mindset. Employees (inside) and consumers (outside) expect to find information and complete tasks on their own. User-centered design makes it easy for them to do so.
Yet just because someone can do something, it doesn’t mean that they will.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/pastwebcast.asp#insideout
Filed under: UX & Usability on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
Yeah yeah - we know - usability and user research is important. We always get told it, but in reality it isnt that easy to get your company or those of clients you are consulting with to get on board with the idea. For when you do or are trying to sell it through, sometimes [...]
Filed under: UX & Usability on November 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
A new product has just been launced over at YouTXT - its called FlightCHECK.
Based on the same simple principles of providing useful information quickly and easily through TXT, FlightCHECK is an anytime, anywhere flight checking tool. Giving realtime access to any flight arriving or departing NZ. It can be accessed over at [...]
Filed under: General News on August 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
When an updat is rolled out across a system or across a site there is an expected down time. However when we are dealing with the world wide web there is no 3am at the same time everywhere - so what are you options?
Filed under: General News, UX & Usability on July 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick note to let you all know there is a new IE testing tool out there over at : http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage This is another option instead of installing the MultipleIE  standalone versions. Hopefully it will be out of beta soon, and also look at supporting other browsers too. It would be a perfect world to have [...]
Filed under: General News on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
When a major player doesn’t support major browsers what does one think, other head in the sand. Hotmail has been slow loading and throwing un-responsive javascript errors for a long time now in Firefox on a PC using winxp and now it just doesnt load at all.
Filed under: Javascirpt / DHTML, UX & Usability on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
There are numourous ways and Javascripts out there to sort out a scrolling panel. Although when it comes to getting one that works on a Safari Browser in the iPhone when a double finger action is used to initiate the scroll action item - well then it is a bit tougher. Iframes, JS heavy scrolling divs etc are [...]
Filed under: CSS, General News on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »