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Tuesday, 28th September, 4:08 PM
Understand how colors interact with each other to establish a heirarchy of information in your #typography: http://j.mp/dANmUD #ux #design
Monday, 27th September, 2:01 PM
Do you know what your customers actually remember about your site? Try Clue's 5 second test: http://j.mp/9j4MUQ #ux #tdd #webdesign
Sunday, 26th September, 12:08 PM
To make backend infrastructure software usable, focus on the linguistic elements of the design: http://j.mp/dlkj2x
It’s easy to see why search data has the potential to predict: Consumers looking to buy a new camera may search the web to compare models, movie-goers may search for the opening date of a new film or to find movie theaters showing it, and travelers planning a vacation may search for places of interest, airline tickets, or hotel rooms. By aggregating the volume of search queries related to retail, movies, or travel, we might be able to predict collective behavior around economics, culture, or politics.
Ultimately, search can be useful in predicting real-world events, not because it is better than other traditional data, but because it is fast, convenient, and offers insight into a wide range of topics.
It has been said that if you put a million monkeys in front of a million computers, you would eventually produce an accurate economic forecast. Let's see how well that theory works ...
The tool used for encoding the images was gimp with the default settings. I updated the blog post with this information, as well as the resolution that each image was at (as some people thought that the smaller preview size in the blog was what I was testing at).As for your test, were you using the full resolution image or did you shrink it down to the blog preview size like joelypolly (which was a communication issue on my part, as I didn't list the resolutions in the stats)? Here's the web directory that has all the full resolution images: http://jjcm.org:8081/webp , if you can get better results, let me know and I'll update the blog with your jpgs.
UPDATE: The author has commented elsewhere that his 45KB images weren't 580x363, but 1920x1200. I've added full resolution 1920x1200 examples.
The Real world analysis of google’s webp versus jpg over at English Hard is getting a lot of attention today, comparing Google's new WebP image compression to JPEG compression, using a few "real world" images.
While the post presents the image compression quality visual results in PNG (with accompanying numeric error level analysis) for fairness, the JPEG compression images' visual presentation is seriously flawed. Setting aside that a numeric noise ratio is known to be a poor metric for human perception of image quality, what you see in this post is even worse.
This is what the post shows for a 44.6KB "webp" image:
This is what the post shows for the 44.5KB "jpg" image:
I have never seen banding like this produced by a JPEG compressor, no matter how bad the compressor. Was this really true?
I used a 1920x1200 PNG image source, opened it in Photoshop CS5, chose "Save for Web and Devices", resized to 580 x 363, and set a quality of 75. The resulting file is 43.6 KB:
This doesn't show the dramatic concentric rings of banding. It certainly looks nothing like the alleged JPEG shown in the blog. To check if the conversion to PNG would damage the JPEG as shown in the blog, I opened this JPEG in Mac's native Preview app and saved as PNG:
I'm not the only one who noticed this issue. Several others called out the problem. The author hasn't yet fixed his post, saying essentially "you're not looking at the big files I'm looking at".
Yesterday, a review by x264's lead developer, H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP?, concluded, "You’d have to be nuts to try to replace JPEG with this blurry mess as-is." I don't know if the webp images in this blog post show a blurry mess, but who can say if their representation is any fairer than the badly broken JPEG results?
It seems to me that when presenting a visual comparison of image compression, the visual itself really should be representative.
Friday, 24th September, 11:05 AM
6 things Pay-TV operators can learn from #Blockbuster fall, starting with loving customers: http://j.mp/aWJKJc #vod #netflix #usability #ux
Thursday, 23rd September, 5:21 PM
Hosting is hard -- "Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes", for hours yesterday and today: http://j.mp/by7pTi #downtime
Wednesday, 22nd September, 4:42 PM
The key to good writing is focus. Writer for iPad (by iA) leverages concentration, orientation, and typography to help: http://j.mp/d990fx
Tuesday, 21st September, 6:05 PM
Principles of effective communication--assume you'll be misunderstood, share deeper meaning, keep it simple: http://j.mp/aDbXFX
Monday, 20th September, 5:29 PM
Help users achieve Techno-Literacy by using the min amount of #technology that will max their options: http://j.mp/9xqanY #ux #usability
Friday, 17th September, 8:19 PM
What do serious people mean when they say “user experience design” instead of just “web design”?: http://j.mp/bxJV6c #ux #design
Wednesday, 15th September, 10:12 PM
Recommendations for #usability in product development practice, based on a PhD research project: http://j.mp/aPITfH #ia #ux
Tuesday, 14th September, 9:42 AM
Designing for #children requires distinct #usability approaches, including targeting content narrowly for different ages: http://j.mp/drYiLH
Monday, 13th September, 9:27 AM
More than any other adjective, reviewers condemn apps they don’t like as “useless”: http://j.mp/bn5Mk1 #usability #apps #ux
Friday, 10th September, 9:11 AM
Use an inline or drop down login box so users don’t have to wait for a new page to load: http://j.mp/9pm9aP #ia #ux
Friday, 10th September, 9:07 AM
What teens really think about the usability of #Swype texting, expressed in a 4 panel "rage comic": http://j.mp/d51fVv #usability #android
Thursday, 9th September, 6:59 PM
Apple shares App Store Review Guidelines, apparently cares about #UX. "Join us in trying to surprise and delight users": http://j.mp/ck7XaZ
Wednesday, 8th September, 12:15 PM
Typing in mobile web apps is considered frustrating, yet in US, 4.1 billion SMS are sent a day. Maybe it's the usability: http://j.mp/cNhoLH
Monday, 6th September, 3:41 PM
E.W. Dijkstra on teaching the "radical novelties" of computer science http://post.ly/vzZc
Monday, 6th September, 12:57 PM
The real problem is companies have a roving eye--always more interested in the customers they don’t have: http://j.mp/b4uvI9 #ux #service