Archive for the 'Usability' Category

My Presentation on UX for WordPress Sites

27Nov10

I recently gave a talk on apply­ing some User Expe­ri­ence con­sid­er­a­tions to the design deci­sions one makes in a Word­Press blog. Since there are a num­ber of plu­g­ins and other tech­nolo­gies that can enhance the user expe­ri­ence of a blog, I thought it would be good to pro­mote some of these. Here’s the pre­sen­ta­tion deck […]

The Greasepaint Approach

17Jun10

A Real iPhone is smaller than this, and that’s the issue I’ve recently been involved with an iPhone project where we are doing a few cus­tom UI con­trols, and it’s def­i­nitely proved a learn­ing expe­ri­ence about the dif­fer­ence between design­ing for a com­puter screen and design­ing for the iPhone screen (either the cur­rent one or the […]

Eek!

08Nov09

For decades there was a reli­gious war regard­ing what com­puter users should be doing with their hands when they weren’t typ­ing. No, not that reli­gious war (you cheeky mon­key!), the one about the point­ing device, which would allow a user to make ges­tures on the screen, and address parts of a graphic user inter­face. Before […]