Juliette/SF

I recently decided to cut back on media consumption and increase vegetable consumption in one swift move, by cancelling Netflix and Rhapsody subscriptions and joining a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture — basically a farm subscription). I was generally pretty happy with Netflix but didn’t cycle through DVDs frequently enough for it to be worth it. […]

Found in today’s nytimes.com, a compelling proposal for a ballot re-design.

Jakob Nielsen just released his list of the 10 Best Application UIs of 2008
Here’s what he had to say about how the winners used usability research to build superior products:

Usability Methods: Cheap but Contextual
The winning designs are revolutionary, but there’s nothing revolutionary about the usability methods employed to ensure their quality. The teams used well-known […]

I grabbed this screenshot from an amusingly unhelpful page of help documentation.

Want to learn more about how to set up and manage a user research program within your organization? If so, you are humbly encouraged to vote for our panel for inclusion in next year’s SxSW: Developing Super Senses: Tools to Know Your Users. My partners in crime are Mark Trammell (Digg), Carla Borsoi (Ask.com), […]