Usability week ending July 10th

Friday, 8th July, 6:17 PM
User testing in the wild -- when your user has never used a computer: http://j.mp/psldVH #usability #ux #testing

Thursday, 7th July, 7:37 PM
The inscrutability of Gmail Detailed Technical Info and Yahoo Error Code 15 http://post.ly/2M1dZ

Thursday, 7th July, 5:18 PM
How building a great admin #dashboard can lead to an amazing product: http://j.mp/p1Tv8i #ui #saas /via @MapleButter

Thursday, 7th July, 2:20 PM
YouTube gets finger friendly usability redesign: http://j.mp/pE7xJi #youtube #ux #ui #vod

Wednesday, 6th July, 3:23 PM
Thoughts on Google+ attracting users and influence through intuitive #usability: http://j.mp/qlUD4j #googleplus #ux #facebook

Tuesday, 5th July, 3:27 PM
Why the WSJ Mobile App gets such terrible customer reviews, and how to fix it: http://j.mp/mDmYMP #ux #design #iphone #usability

Tuesday, 5th July, 3:13 PM
The imprimatur of the creator/publisher/distributor/retailer is its reputation for selecting/producing works users enjoy: http://j.mp/lVXDtx

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending March 20th

Thursday, 17th March, 12:45 PM
"A method to produce the perfect book." This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system: http://j.mp/dG4t3i #design #layout

Thursday, 17th March, 8:57 AM
What do the big three tech giants really care about? Visualizing PR as word clouds: http://j.mp/hac2WA #infographic

Wednesday, 16th March, 12:31 PM
Learn, build, measure, more, better, faster -- a UX design model for startups: http://j.mp/e01upv

Wednesday, 16th March, 11:49 AM
Digital movie buyers overwhelmingly motivated by immediate ease of streaming and downloading digital video: http://j.mp/fva6aV #vod

Wednesday, 16th March, 11:38 AM
Record, game, maybe even book stores could come back into play in a world where everyone's watching their data usage: http://j.mp/i1eNVP

Wednesday, 16th March, 10:20 AM
Media still confused about companies offering things on an embedded Facebook page, versus #Facebook offering it itself: http://j.mp/eVl3ni

Tuesday, 15th March, 6:24 PM
Why 63% (and me) don't like #Facebook News Feed change--I'm most interested in news from friends I don't hear from often: http://j.mp/guiAza

Monday, 14th March, 3:34 PM
I agree reading iPad paper The Daily "so erratic and unfocused ... like witnessing a new identity crisis every day": http://j.mp/fx5dZI

Monday, 14th March, 2:57 PM
Happy Pie Day -- March 14, or 3.14, is known as “Pi Day” because it looks like π. But should it be 1/2 tau instead? http://j.mp/hLjlyI

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending March 13th

Saturday, 12th March, 5:14 PM
The exceptional home page is not a bulletin board, it's a demo-showroom: http://j.mp/gNwUj9 #ia

Saturday, 12th March, 12:02 PM
A well-designed #UX is consistent, forgiving, rewarding; #Nokia's user experience was inconsistent, unforgiving, hostile: http://j.mp/fZCygF

Thursday, 10th March, 9:17 PM
@kiwi_app Can I set my own j.mp key yet in a Kiwi app I pay for?

Thursday, 10th March, 9:16 PM
@sugarsock Haven't tried Sword and Soldiers. Liked Fieldrunners, also Spirits, Trainyard, and World of Goo. Angry Birds felt tedious!

Thursday, 10th March, 10:39 AM
Why hover menus are a #usability disaster -- and not just because users can't hover on an iPad: http://j.mp/eWA40n #ux #ui

Thursday, 10th March, 8:59 AM
Reserve your connect.me username: http://cxt.me/am5w3A #connectme

Wednesday, 9th March, 1:46 PM
World's shortest guide to #SEO: http://j.mp/h5JMBj

Wednesday, 9th March, 8:19 AM
FTC puts patent trolls -- sorry, patent assertion entities -- on notice: http://j.mp/f4vUry #patent #patents

Tuesday, 8th March, 3:55 PM
Why is Angry Birds' interface so engaging that users cannot stop interacting with it? A cognitive teardown of #UX: http://j.mp/f68z1Q

Tuesday, 8th March, 10:35 AM
Five key principles to fostering better conversations in your site's #comments section: http://j.mp/fUsBKr #ia #ux

Monday, 7th March, 4:16 PM
Deciding on a tablet by comparing specs? You've missed the point: http://j.mp/dJB8Tf #ipad #xoom #ux #ipad2

Monday, 7th March, 1:34 PM
The first step towards real “unbundling” is to put the viewer at the center of audience building: http://j.mp/eXD4w0 #vod #ux

Monday, 7th March, 1:32 PM
Where are the app experiences befitting the iPad and its hardware capabilities?: http://j.mp/eSC4Dv #ux

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending March 6th

Friday, 4th March, 8:10 AM
Building an international auxiliary #language, shared #symbols to break down barriers of understanding between people: http://j.mp/gw5tAZ

Wednesday, 2nd March, 10:56 AM
#Piracy the preferred means of acquiring TV not because it's free, but because it's the best way to consume TV: http://j.mp/i2nEnf #vod #ux

Tuesday, 1st March, 6:10 PM
Rapid #prototyping with #Sinatra apps to make great proofs of concept or Minimum Viable Products: http://j.mp/hLF80S #ruby

Tuesday, 1st March, 12:16 PM
Tendency to over-specify potential capabilities of a #VOD system leads to huge technical problems: http://j.mp/fgPAw1 #ott #design #ia #ux

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending February 13th

Thursday, 10th February, 5:28 PM
Involve decision makers and implementers in #UX to give them understanding of the issues and incentive to fix: http://j.mp/g0KDgG

Thursday, 10th February, 7:57 AM
No part of dynamic AJAXy magic requires beating the Web to a bloody pulp with a sharp-edged hashbang. So stop it.: http://j.mp/guN3Fe

Wednesday, 9th February, 4:55 PM
When technical good intentions go wrong -- how Gawker and Lifehacker broke their websites with JavaScript and hash-bangs: http://j.mp/g4xylU

Tuesday, 8th February, 10:59 AM
A definitive guide to Landing Page Best Practices -- with infographics: http://j.mp/fnGNRX #ppc #adwords

Monday, 7th February, 11:43 AM
VOD UI designers take note: families don't want lean-forward involvement from a lean-back medium: http://j.mp/gk6bYq #ux #tv #vod #ui

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending December 19th

Thursday, 16th December, 12:17 PM
Web developers must add #mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. Here's the landscape: http://j.mp/fsZMkT

Thursday, 16th December, 10:43 AM
Why the studios will lose the “war” with Netflix: http://j.mp/hWrvsD #netflix #streaming #ux #vod #ott

Wednesday, 15th December, 8:22 AM
Making user and customer experience a business competency (videos and transcript): http://j.mp/fmTWJW #ux #cx

Tuesday, 14th December, 8:20 AM
RIM BlackBerry -- when product development teams kill #usability, how to recognize it, and what to do about it: http://j.mp/e7GS4x

Monday, 13th December, 12:59 PM
Average U.S. consumer now spends as much time online as watching TV, according to Forrester research: http://j.mp/i73E87

Monday, 13th December, 9:51 AM
Making an iPhone app? Use great iPhone apps every day--designing with conventions in mind will eventually come naturally: http://j.mp/fDPzgd

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending September 26th

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

via twitter.com/terretta

Usability week ending March 14th

Friday, 12th March, 8:25 AM
Persuading a client to approve a #design--always be selling, design has consequences, avoid politics, know the client: http://j.mp/cDHBdr

Thursday, 11th March, 5:44 PM
Guiding principles for experience designers--address problem, cause no pain, simplify, acknowledge users, have empathy: http://j.mp/aY7iEt

Wednesday, 10th March, 12:28 PM
The person, their brain, the mouse, and the monitor are so tightly intertwined that they’re just one thing: http://j.mp/dqXIz0 #usability

Wednesday, 10th March, 12:26 PM
NCAA Vault--a video index to every moment in "Sweet 16" history for last 10 years--shows archived video's value: http://j.mp/90TorV #vod

Wednesday, 10th March, 8:29 AM
I bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 Top Mac apps worth $260+ for only $19.95 and got 3 great bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it

Tuesday, 9th March, 4:06 PM
Ling’s Cars--subtle brilliance a lesson for #design elitists. Authenticity, personal attention, #usability, trust: http://j.mp/dqmk4P #ux

Monday, 8th March, 10:53 AM
Technological progress in one area can lead to surprising regressions. How we learned and lost the cure for scurvy: http://j.mp/bYVxoi

via twitter.com/terretta

Apple's 0.7 megapixel 4:3 EDTV media viewer

via tuaw.com

Come on, Apple—Jobs needs a new set of glasses. The iPad is only 1024x768. That's miserly for the HD video age.

A widescreen 1280x768 would have been a megapixel, and HDTV means at least 1280x720. Five years ago, Gateway's CX200 Tablet PC offered that, making portrait view perfect for viewing full page documents including the menu bar, taking notes with Microsoft OneNote—and landscape view ideal for watching movies.

With its 9.7" diagonal and 131 DPI, the iPad offers sharper resolution than Apple's 30" cinema display (4 megapixels at 100 DPI), and the same resolution as the 17" Macbook Pro (2.3 megapixels at 133 DPI), but is less crisp than the iPhone at 164 DPI.

Let's hope the pixel grid is oriented for portrait mode so fonts can use subpixel rendering, or reading will be tiring compared to the Kindle. (It's hard to tell from Apple marketing which is the preferred orientation.)

Sadly, this iPad is not the portable Hulu player I was looking for. Aside from the pixel count barely exceeding Apple's iFrame video format, with HDTV shot in 16:9 and most widescreen movies filmed in 1.85:1 or 2.35:1, there will be a lot of letter-boxing on planes and trains this year.

Online video week ending January 24th

Friday, 22nd January, 6:35 PM
Why @Firefox supports the #HTML5 video element, but only for #Ogg #Theora: http://j.mp/8ngedQ @vimeo @youtube #vod #h264 #patents

Friday, 22nd January, 9:29 AM
Conan puts online #video distribution rights fees to comedic use, licenses costly Rolling Stones track for comedy skit: http://j.mp/8SI3Cd

Thursday, 21st January, 5:47 PM
In past 2 years, over 12 telcos/carriers entered CDN biz, all by re-selling or partnering with a pure-play provider: http://j.mp/5ZCZNq

Wednesday, 20th January, 9:47 AM
RT @TechCrunch: Watch Obama’s State Of The Union speech LIVE on your #iPhone next week: http://j.mp/7nJofi #streaming #video

Tuesday, 19th January, 3:36 PM
#Cisco says avg employee in enterprise watches 4.6 hrs of #streaming video a month, to double over next 2 years: http://j.mp/4TABIl #vod

Tuesday, 19th January, 2:55 PM
Got Windows 7 but no TV tuner? You don’t need one to watch streaming video (even popular TV) on a Media Center PC: http://j.mp/5TK8cs #vod

Tuesday, 19th January, 12:04 PM
À-la-carte pricing could inject huge uncertainty into cable, channels might not get enough subscribers to survive: http://j.mp/8iqz4M

Monday, 18th January, 6:44 PM
#ESPN could provide live streams of sporting events to #Microsoft Xbox Live: http://j.mp/5KJFpQ #streaming #vod #xbox360 #sports $MSFT $DIS

via twitter.com/advection