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Rules for Usability

March 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Usability

I received an email from a (presumably) very nice person the other day asking me to check out an article entitled 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site. Cool, I thought. But a look at the list shows tips such as these: Add a search box. Are your current visitors lost? Make it [...]

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Google Not Usable! … Pshaw … Seriously?

January 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Information Design, Usability

Well, yes … for the South Koreans, anyway. From an article in the FT: “I love Naver because everything I need is conveniently shown on the first page,” says Hwang Ji-sun, a 22-year-old college student in Seoul. “I get everything from news, shopping advice, the latest entertainment gossip, interesting pictures and hot search words. On [...]

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Buh-Bye Browse, Hello Search

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Information Design, Usability

In case you didn’t notice it (and how could you not, seriously), Amazon finally got rid of its infamous tab dense header and replaced it with a simple search bar. You might think Amazon is at the front of the pack (and there are certainly some good reasons for thinking so), but many sites have [...]

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The Power of Suggestion

June 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Usability

Google (aka the Web’s Creative Director), really started something with Google Suggest. Anticipating what people are looking for is the holy grail of search. And suggest functionality helps accomplish this by comparing what you’re typing into the search box with a defined list of words or possible searches at the same time as you’re typing, [...]

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