Crude Technologies

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

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

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

Thursday, 5th May, 10:01 PM
Innovative techniques to make your forms faster and easier to fill out, simplify signups, logins: http://j.mp/mzv42Y #ux #ui

Monday, 2nd May, 6:05 PM
Content is right for users when it helps them accomplish their goals: http://j.mp/kBa0l6 #ux #ia

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

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

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

Friday, 8th April, 11:06 AM
Media's ageing audiences: Peggy Sue got old - The Economist http://post.ly/1rwsS

Thursday, 7th April, 3:47 PM
Truth is, predicting the future accurately is pretty tough: http://j.mp/dWePaq #iphone #android #wp7

Thursday, 7th April, 1:10 PM
Users to Developers -- "If you are going to change a standard UI behavior, you better have good reason for it.": http://j.mp/fKKDkS #ux

Wednesday, 6th April, 8:33 AM
11 fundamental guidelines for e-commerce checkout #usability--we saw 430% lift using similar ideas on our store platform: http://j.mp/eaKR8T

Tuesday, 5th April, 11:24 AM
Apple founder Steve Wozniak says tablets are PCs for 'normal people', Steve Job's goal from day one http://post.ly/1r2tf

Monday, 4th April, 12:54 PM
Make the web easy to read -- standard font sizes, active white space, good line height, contrast, no text images: http://j.mp/f1sjbt #ux #ui

Monday, 28th March, 4:19 PM
CEM is learning and responding to the sensory, emotional, intellectual, and social wants and needs of the customer: http://j.mp/fK3QJA #ux

Monday, 28th March, 7:56 AM
The tighter the design constraints, the more you must polish the user interface to deliver optimal usability: http://j.mp/hHlVoU #ui #ux

Friday, 25th March, 11:17 PM
Customers' needs are more accurately identified through UX #personas than through #demographic data: http://j.mp/hurCz4

Thursday, 24th March, 4:06 PM
Today’s TV apps offer confusing interfaces, make us squint, or don’t have a point at all. How to make #TV #apps work: http://j.mp/if8kiy #ux

Tuesday, 22nd March, 7:48 AM
Is Receivd's real-time filesharing for family and friends better than Droplr and Dropbox? Try it out: http://t.co/v2wQGlj

Monday, 21st March, 11:40 PM
A "bold" new approach to publishing a book with a dramatically different user experience: http://j.mp/gsXRPn