Why A New Window Is Akin To A Barrier To (Re) Entry
We’re thinking about redesigning our website at the moment and one of the development team sent a straw poll round the office asking what people thought about links opening in new windows. To say that it unleashed a bit of a storm would probably be putting it mildly.
Whilst many people (myself included) felt that links […]
We’re gonna’ build a website like it’s 1995…
Jacob Nielson, usability guru (in the estimation of some), was interviewed recently by E-consultancy.
I quote:
Is there any point in using Flash on your website?
That’s a good question - I’ve been going back and forth on that over the years.
We’ve come up with examples in our studies where it has worked well - product demos, […]
Five too many ways to save!
We upgraded our in-house wiki recently (TWiki), and the save dialog now looks like this:
So there’s now, what, six potential ways to save a page? Three save buttons, plus a force new revision toggle that can be applied to each? Plus preview, plus cancel? Aren’t wikis supposed to be simple? (The […]
We don’t do ‘web design’
This interesting post (and follow-up) by Oliver Reichenstein generated some discussion recently. Through his choice of title, Reichenstein shows himself to be a talented controversialist - and he earns extra brownie points for picking fights with usability gurus… His argument is that the traditional (print) discipline of typography - which in large part concerns what […]
4 seconds
A recent survey by Akamai of online shoppers shows that most users shy away and in some cases refuse to return to sites that take more than 4 seconds to get into…
With broadband speeds ever increasing you have to wonder what sites are falling in this camp and why. It’s interesting that places […]
Where are the flying cars?
When Islington Library need to tell you that the book you’ve reserved is ready for collection they send you a letter—and not only a letter, a handwritten letter! Hullo email! Hullo SMS!
A Challenge: Find O2’s Pay Monthly Rates in 5 Clicks or Less
Here’s a challenge: starting from O2’s homepage, find O2’s pay monthly phone rates in five clicks or less. (Answer below.) For some reason, the websites of each of the four major phone networks in the UK make this—and a whole lot of seemingly common other tasks—extremely difficult. Is this in fact an […]
