Not sure how I didn’t see this before, but Google Finance now has a new(ish) feature called Google Domestic Trends. This is essentially Google Trends, but with the searched for keywords organized into useful concepts (i.e. retail, durable goods, automotive, etc.) and hooked into Google’s stock charts. This way a user can take [...]
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Google Finance’s new tool: Domestic Trends
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Financial Markets, Information Design, Product Development
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Tableau Public … some thoughts
March 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Information Design, Product Development
Tableau, in a bid to capture some of the visualization craze that is driving sites such as Chartle.net and Timetric, has released a public, PC only, version of its software.
Having never used Tableau before, but hearing that it’s quite powerful, I decided to check it out. Here are the results, a simple scatter plot [...]
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eBay takes another whack at their search UI
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Product Development, Usability
Bits, the NY Times tech blog, calls our attention to something new going on over at eBay: Garden at eBay, a site for testing new tools, features, etc. with users before pushing them out to ebay.com.
Our first response is: whatever happened to Project San Dimas, eBay’s earlier attempt to clean up the user interface? [...]
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From the file: Oh yeah, I guess it does matter
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Product Development, Usability
A recent article from the FT highlights Microsoft’s regret, at least concerning their mobile phone OS, they didn’t focus on the user experience of the dang thing sooner.
From the article:
Microsoft executives blame their focus on the business market for their failure to relate earlier to the more intuitive interfaces and wave of consumer applications [...]
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ProTrade closes
October 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Other Markets, Product Development
When ProTrade first came out I thought they had a great idea. Dubbed the sports stock market, users could “buy” and “sell” pro athletes for play money. Presumably there were prizes for top performers.
But when you went to the site the UI was pretty poor, and from what I saw last [...]
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The window is not the view. The browser is not the internet.
September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Information Markets, Product Development
We should not be surprised to hear that Google is trying to get its browser and operating systems (“Chrome“) pre-installed on computers, just as Microsoft’s OS and browser currently are for most PCs.
All of this activity, though, has prompted some interesting questions about where the browser starts and ends, and how much should [...]
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What does “redesign must die” mean for consultants?
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Product Development, Usability
A while ago Lou Rosenfeld had a nice presentation called Redesign Must Die. It made the assertion that web sites are often very complex, ever changing (almost living) things, and redesigning them is a bit like trying to paint flames on a Camaro while it’s speeding along at 80 mph. In other words, [...]
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Are these new usability tools useful?
July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Product Development, Usability
I’ve heard several people mention some new usability tools recently. Userfly and Clixpy. They both do pretty much the same thing: record actual users interacting with your web site. This seems like a boon to site managers everywhere. Now they can actually watch recorded sessions of users using their site. [...]
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Is violating privacy a successful business model?
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Information Markets, Product Development
This article in the FT about a Facebook ap called We’re Related has raised some eyebrows across the pond (in Europe, that is).
Essentially the application asks to use your private data to see which of your friends might be related to you, however distantly, and then can potentially share that information, even though [...]
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