Tag: usability

Alphabet 26

Alphabet 26 an alphabet that takes the best of upper / lowercase to improve readability

Google Lacking In Usability

Yahoo’s Jeff Bonforte held court with reporters and dispensed his views of Google’s products versus those from his company. Along with stating Google’s stuff lacks the usability of Yahoo’s services, he noted the “intimate connection in usability” Yahoo has with its users.

lol

TinyURL everywhere

nice urls should be more prevalent

Calendar cross-publishing

where even jon has trouble sharing calendars between gcal and outlook, with pictures. wow this sucks. after all these years.

Listening works

bloggers helping to improve the toronto transit website (and they are listening). this is awesome and should happen in boston and zurich too (and all other places with horrible transit sites, ie just about all of them)

Mac Poor Usability

i picked a mac as my new workhorse, so i will be curious to see whether i drink the koolaid, or whether eric’s got it right

My main cause for regret is the overall usability of the OS. There are 3 main issues here. The lack of keyboard access to commands, the antiquated menu bar and the MDI.

PS3s Being Traded For Wiis

casual gaming wins big time

Wii Motion

is the post-pc interface within reach, finally?

Udell on his role

I really, really want to show a lot of people how to use more of what they’ve got. Smarter methods of communication. More powerful data analysis and visualization. Surprisingly simple kinds of integration.

Habits of Highly Successful Websites

Google Maps, meanwhile, has just removed everything else from the page except for the map and the search box, ensuring no features get in between the user and their mapping experience. Like most Google software, though, features are definitely not going to be added.

funny gmaps critique