Google Maps and street view is getting scary. For a while, Microsoft’s Maps, was the closest look at my house. But the Street View for Google is just crazy. It’s a digital photo from the street of every house in my neighboorhood. Interestingly, I can’t make out any of the license plates on the cars. …
I recently upgraded my DirecTV so that I get HD and DVR in one box. It took a week to get it actually working. Some technical problem, lets skip that. The device has an ethernet port so I bought a special ethernet to wifi connection. It took a little while, but I finally got it…
I don’t have a Blackberry. I appreciate it’s UX very much for the primary user. It’s downright addicting. However, the UX of the person WATCHING the person using the Blackberry isn’t nearly as good. Hold on a sec. Click. Spin ball. Type. Wait. Wait. Ok, I’m back. How lame is that? Every person with a…
Business Model #1: Enterprise This is when your product costs over 100k. Maybe even in the millions. The sales cycle is pretty long. It requires lots of documents to make the sale and build the product. RFI, RFP, MRD, PRD, Roadmap, the list goes on and on. This is a tough business to be in. …
A nice review of Marketo. I really feel like Marketo is starting to gain momentum in a serious way. Articles like this make me feel all warm inside that I was able to have a positive impact on a company and on the people who use the product. This raises an important thought for me. …
Every once in a while, I do a little exploration on the web to look for interesting things. I don’t do it that often because it is a road that leads to everywhere and I could get lost for hours. However, I feel compelled to do it a little bit of the time and this…
I wrote this a while back for the book too. It described the design process in most organizations as I perceived it. I cleaned it up a bit and made it into HTML instead of a Word doc or PDF. I called it Design Pitfalls. This is another in the series of stuff from the…
I was looking at some of the documents I produced in writing the book. I really like some of them. They don’t string together like a book, but taken individually as just a single serving of UX, they actually are useful. Well, I think so anyway. I am going to package them up and post…
Three bits of interesting UI news today. First is a spotlight from the ExtJS blog called VersoChat. Mostly, I just read the blog, skimmed their website and looked closely at the big JPEG on EXT. Default skin, but very nice icons. I wonder where they got those ones. The Information Architecture (IA) is definetely designed…
Go to http://maps.google.com and search for your house. Then click “Show search options” to the right of the search box. Notice the box “Restrict Results to:” Change the box to “Real Estate” Click search again Notice the left hand side shows real estate listings. Click one of the listings. Click on the detail bubble on…
Rachel Luxemburg was kind enough to forward me this report from Jakob Nielsen on how people read on the web. I have always known that people do not read a web page the way they do a book or email. On the web, people will skim. They will pass whole blocks of text. Their eyes…
UX is not UI. 50% of the letters are the same, but they are very different. Looking around the web their are some great resources/tutorials on the subject of User Experience. Montparnas has a wonderful UX summary which I highly recommend. It has oodles of good info. This slideshow by Garrett Dimon has some wonderful…
Slideshare is a service that has been around for a while. I haven’t really used it much, but I had been asked to publish the Stanford presentation there, so I gave it a fresh look. First the positives. This is a useful service. It makes sense to share presentations and to convert them to flash…
My presentation at Stanford went swimmingly. I think my UX presentation was well received. The class had about 50 people in it. They laughed when I wanted them to laugh and they cried when I wanted them to cry. My timing worked and I ended on a positive, inspirational note with 1 minute to spare. …