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Usability Nestor Jakob Nielsen today posted a fatwā [0] regarding the order of OK and Cancel buttons in native applications and web apps. The short version is “Don’t sweat it, and stick to platform specs“.
The specs, of course, depend on the platform: The KDE and Windows usability guidelines say OK first, then Cancel, while the [...]

I Husis fanns idag en artikel om Blu-ray, och i samband med den, en notis om att den svenska tidningen Råd & Rön testat en bunt Blu-ray-spelare.
I testet hade man bedömt bland annat bild- och ljudkvalitet, hanterbarhet, strömförbrukning och oljud.
Hanterbarhet. Hmmm….! Har någon äntligen kommit fram med ett ord för usability som [...]

Kuluneella viikolla ilmestynyt Aku Ankka oli riemastuttava yllätys näin käytettävyydestä ja tietoturvasta (käytettävyys + tietoturva = hcisec) kiinnostuneesta ex-akateemikosta. Vissiin joka tarina kertoo jotenkin tietoturvasta. Otetaan tässä luupin alle lehden avaussarja Kuurakaara.
Pelle Peloton keksii vedellä toimivan auton Roope Ankan markkinoitavaksi (jutun toisessa ruudussa seisoo valloittava pingviiniparvi tiirailemassa keksijän ohikiitävää ilma-alusta!). Fysikaalinen epätodennäköisyys [...]

Noniin, nyt sekin on tutkittu ja tieteellisesti totta. Ärsyttävin “tilapalkki” (progress bar = edistymispalkki?) on sellainen joka käy ja kukkuu 99%:iin asti ja sitten pysähtyy. Ja miellyttävin on sellainen joka nopeutuu loppua kohden. Jotkut kutsuisivat tätä nollatutkimukseksi; käytettävyydestä kiinnostuneena en voi kuin sanoa että “joo”, ja hyvä että sekin saatiin näytettyä.

Itse arvostaisin sellaista edistysbaaria joka [...]

I am running a connector from Outlook to MSN/Live Messenger so that i can read ignore my Live Hotmail both over the web and on my Outlook. But alas, there was a bug.
One fine day i saw that most of my hotmail contacts existed in duplicates. Pedantic as i am, i went and deleted [...]

Mobile phones have been used by businesses since their inception late last century. In fact, mobile phones were first payable (i would have said affordable, but that wasn’t always the case) by businesses and their high paid execs and sales guys, for utility and show-off. In the mid 90’s the early adopters caught the cell [...]

I recently had the opportunity to test drive the rather impressive clunk of hardware that is the PDA/Smartphone Toshiba Portégé G900 on a sort of a self-imposed service gig for our CEO. To make a long story short, his G900 had crashed so badly that it only showed the “pills and rainbows” welcome screen and [...]

LukeW tells a story on how he tried to become a member of The Firmont Hotels President’s Club and after much fighting in the forms jungle, finally gave up. Includes excellent tips on how to design your forms to not lose your customers.

In an unexpected visit to the 21st Century, Jakob Nielsen hails such AJAXy finesses as tabs, and how they should be used The Right Way.
And in a related, but wholly unsurprising posting, LukeW discusses the tabs as how they evolved on Amazon. There’s the horrifying example of fifteen tabs in two rows and the [...]

Well at least i hope so. So i proudly present thee, my Release Candidate One.
I’ll update the links on the Thesis page later. Now it’s off to bed. There are, after all, nearly ninety minutes of quality sleep time before another day is to begin.