Usability week ending June 19th

Saturday, 18th June, 6:44 PM
Why does #Google keep giving me buttons that don’t do anything for me, the user? Serving engineering vs. user experience: http://j.mp/misq8X

Saturday, 18th June, 6:31 PM
Social content discovery is broken, but Instapaper could fix it and save itself from Apple in the process: http://j.mp/jiXpSq #socialweb

Saturday, 18th June, 1:31 PM
The world needs more weird people who know how things work and who love to figure it all out: http://j.mp/iQJjoH

Wednesday, 15th June, 9:44 PM
Look out for big differences between what a study’s aggregate "heatmap" suggests, and what the data really shows: http://j.mp/jALZ0V #ia

Wednesday, 15th June, 6:48 AM
Content discovery on the internet is broken, presuming interest in the same articles “liked” by my “friends”: http://j.mp/jiXpSq

Tuesday, 14th June, 6:52 PM
#Startups should have less features than competitors. If you have more features, you’re probably doing it wrong: http://j.mp/iM1YMx

Monday, 13th June, 7:34 PM
Amazon living by new digital rules, where you satisfy your customer’s need regardless of whose platform they are on: http://j.mp/j6sE34 #ux

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Usability week ending June 12th

Saturday, 11th June, 10:56 AM
How to find iPad or iPhone device ID (UDID) when stuck on iOS 5 beta update: http://j.mp/lOAF21 #ipad #iphone #guid #udid #beta #ios #tip

Friday, 10th June, 11:17 PM
Why the new task UI in Taskrabbit has great behavioral design: http://j.mp/kH8LO7 #ux #ui #ia

Thursday, 9th June, 6:46 PM
Try "persuasive design" to change attitudes or behaviors of users through #persuasion and social influence: http://j.mp/kV1641 #design #ux

Thursday, 9th June, 5:58 PM
Google adds indexing support for rel="author" HTML tag property, to track and rank content creators: http://j.mp/kMHpuF #google #seo #ia

Wednesday, 8th June, 8:17 PM
You can’t convince a smoker to quit smoking. They need to just decide they’ll do it. It's the same for UX: http://j.mp/lmKhbU #ux

Wednesday, 8th June, 6:55 AM
UI testing suggests ways for #iPad app-makers to make their #apps more intuitive and ergonomic for users: http://j.mp/jPZVoX #ui #ux

Tuesday, 7th June, 5:59 PM
Forget #social... Build a tool which people find useful immediately: http://j.mp/lgZDIc #ux #startup #mvp

Tuesday, 7th June, 8:37 AM
On 1 Aug 2011, #Google will discontinue support for Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3: http://j.mp/l5cY8D #ux #browser

Tuesday, 7th June, 12:05 AM
#Apple has taken a better approach to #cloud #sync by focusing on its fundamental benefit to users--simplicity: http://j.mp/mfeRcW #ux

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Usability week ending June 5th

Friday, 3rd June, 10:37 PM
Using dominance, influence, steadiness, conscientiousness (DISC) to create #usability #personas from the Smurfs: http://j.mp/lPJwiO #ux #ia

Thursday, 2nd June, 11:08 PM
#iPad succeeds because it has eliminated #complexity, not because it covered up complexity with a touch-based shell: http://j.mp/lrEqI1 #ux

Tuesday, 31st May, 11:54 PM
#Personalization channels people into echo chamber feedback loops, or “filter bubbles”, of their own predilections: http://j.mp/iLBUmV #ux

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Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff on "The Zune Strategy" of fighting value with price

Microsoft's desperate strategy of underfunding, pricing with undifferentiated and highly proprietary products basically has had the same impact on our business as the Windows tablet and Zune did against the iPad and iPod. We call Microsoft's strategy, "the Zune strategy".

It's the concept that they can take a proprietary, undifferentiated offering at a lower price and somehow make an impact on a high-value, highly differentiated product that's loved by customers. Microsoft has not changed our exceptional win rates or affected our average selling price with this Zune strategy.

Customers continue to want visionary products that give them a competitive advantage, not the me-too Zune-type products locking them into these old, proprietary, desktop-driven platforms that are dying off.

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A user experience versus value comment heard in the middle of Salesforce.com's Q1 earnings call.

Usability week ending May 22nd

Friday, 20th May, 5:38 PM
Clear #product vision is essential to a holistic #UX, its critical get it done at beginning of an #agile project: http://j.mp/iSuQiE

Thursday, 19th May, 7:29 AM
The online IDs people are using the most to sign in around the web: http://j.mp/jw2pEo #infographic #ux #ui #ia #sso

Tuesday, 17th May, 5:47 PM
There is no sentient human being in the Western world who has little or no regard for his or her personal #privacy: http://j.mp/lzFHlS

Monday, 16th May, 7:10 AM
Money Transmission Act "is a ticking time bomb" for innovative online payment models: http://j.mp/jrLlvi #law #politics #payments

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Usability week ending May 15th

Friday, 13th May, 8:09 PM
#Google Music Beta wants to let users access music anywhere, anytime. Sadly, it’s just not that easy: http://j.mp/jZS35N #ux #usability

Thursday, 12th May, 7:44 AM
Jakob Nielsen -- "Mobile screens are so small that it's a sin to waste space": http://j.mp/iTmVJ8 #ui #ux #design

Wednesday, 11th May, 9:32 PM
Great products and services depend on their users having great experiences. #Social #design aims to explain the why: http://j.mp/ielzoy #ux

Monday, 9th May, 10:58 PM
So how does an engineer get from poetic floating seaweed to a building that can withstand a magnitude-9.0 earthquake?: http://j.mp/j1xHrO

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Usability week ending May 1st

Friday, 29th April, 7:52 PM
Talking about web sites from a #usability standpoint, we often overlook the most important piece--content: http://j.mp/myBvea #ux

Thursday, 28th April, 8:56 AM
What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. Inventor of web shares how to make one: http://j.mp/iOWGeB

Wednesday, 27th April, 11:01 AM
Your taste is why your work disappoints you: http://j.mp/dNE18D #design

Tuesday, 26th April, 11:10 PM
@Siouxsie212 hi, yes, I spent a lot of springs, summers, and falls there.

Tuesday, 26th April, 11:00 PM
"How Good Designers Think" -- Harvard Business Review: http://j.mp/fNHghR #design #UX #usability

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Usability week ending April 24th

Friday, 22nd April, 3:05 PM
Two clear reasons why services get user attention: happiness (enchantment) and utility (solving a problem): http://j.mp/fDvw67 #ux

Friday, 22nd April, 12:27 PM
The dividing line -- #Amazon has moved digital goods to the top of its 'Shop All Departments' list: http://j.mp/hL4iY2

Wednesday, 20th April, 12:13 PM
What becomes possible when one is able to store entire documents in URLs?: http://j.mp/dXYxGU

Tuesday, 19th April, 12:27 PM
The right mentality is a user-centric mentality: http://j.mp/eZnETQ #ux #ia

Monday, 18th April, 3:49 PM
For a #mobile #app to be lovable, it must be useful, usable and desirable: http://j.mp/i7Srvo #ux #iphone #ipad #android

Monday, 18th April, 2:17 PM
#LibreOffice escape from #Oracle shows how open source forking can protect community autonomy from exploitation: http://j.mp/hACStj

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Usability week ending April 17th

Friday, 15th April, 12:11 PM
I love fonts, and Google Web Fonts just keep getting better. Free to use, hosted by Google: http://j.mp/h98YKf #font #design

Friday, 15th April, 9:13 AM
Fascinating #usability testing results from the latest desktop Linux, Ubuntu Unity. Thinking like new users is hard: http://j.mp/f3kfda #ux

Wednesday, 13th April, 8:15 AM
Loads of hidden or little-known features of #Mac OS X. I didn't know about 'proxy icons' or 'pbcopy': http://j.mp/dIwykl #tip

Tuesday, 12th April, 3:34 PM
Details matter -- lessons from reality on the #iPhone tab bar user experience: http://j.mp/fGcUcw

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