Alex Iskold on Read/WriteWeb
There is some controversy floating around the blogosphere about the nature of the next web. Tim O'Reilly signalled there is no need to continue the versioning fad and call it "Web 3.0," but still, people disagree about what's coming next. To Iskold, what is coming is not a single thing, but a web that is characterized by several major themes. Among the evolving aspects of the new web are Semantics, Attention (Implicit Behavior) and Personalization.READ ON...
Web 2.0 has 2 very different audiences, only 1 is scalable
David Henderson on David Henderson's Blog
Here’s what Henderson learned over 60 days living on the F8 wave. There are 2 distinctive 2.0 audiences - Gen Y social networkers and the older mostly male geeky TechCrunch reading 2.0 audience. One is scalable and foreshadows future behavior while the other will try anything 2.0 for 2 weeks and maxes out at somewhere around 300K users. The Facebook crowd is the former.READ ON...
Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms
Dion Almaer on Ajaxian
Luke Wroblewski has been doing some research for his new book and took a look at some eye-tracking and usability studies to do with web form design. He wrote up his findings in Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms, where he discusses alignment, differentiating paths, and placement of various pieces of the form layout.READ ON...
The war between Nokia and Apple
Michael Mace on Mobile Opportunity
And so it begins. The Apple-Nokia war finally got underway on August 29, when Nokia announced an array of new music-capable phones and an online music store. The two companies had been eyeing one-another like wrestlers outside the ring for more than a year. Apple entered the mobile phone market, but only in the US, where Nokia is a non-factor. Nokia openly declared that it's a computing company (link), but its non-phone products so far have been different flavors of lame.READ ON...
Mike Padilla on Boxes And Arrows
As user experience designers in an enterprise, we find ourselves knee deep in pixels. Should we use a dropdown element or a set of radio buttons? 10pt or 12pt size font? A broad-and-shallow or narrow-and-deep information architecture? While such design considerations are necessary and important, we miss huge user experience opportunities outside the webpage, outside the website, outside the browser. By tackling inter-application usability opportunities, user experience (UX) professionals can make things easier in a big way.READ ON...
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
Aza Raskin on A List Apart
Have you ever had that sinking feeling when you realize—just a split second too late—that you shouldn’t have clicked 'Okay' in the 'Are you sure you want to quit?' dialog? Yes? Well, you’re in good company-everybody has had a similar experience, so there’s no need to feel ashamed about it. It’s not your fault: it’s your software’s fault.READ ON...