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Category Archives: User Experience
Design for Intuitiveness
Last week we got a new shipment of beautiful clear blue Nalgene BPAfree OTG water bottles to Idealab. I picked one and filled it with water from the cooler in order to drink at my desk. When I reached to … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, User Experience
Tagged ClickTale, design, Focus Groups, Google Analytics, Intuitiveness, Nalgene, Product Design, Usability, Water Bottle
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YAY! No more Horizontal Scrolling in TweetDeck
There are many goodies in the new version of TweetDeck (0.33). The one that I like most is the Column Navigator, a usability improvement that makes navigation between columns a snap and will make you say goodbye to horizontal scrolling. … Continue reading
Posted in Twitter, Usability, User Experience
Tagged TweetDeck, Twitter, Usability, User Experience
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Innovative Web Form Buttons From Disqus
I logged into the Disqus console today to change some settings and noticed a new feature. The settings pages do not have a visible “Save” and “Cancel” buttons. Instead, only if you change a value/option on the page the buttons … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, User Experience, Web
Tagged Buttons, Disqus, Usability, Web Design, Web Form
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Google Suggest’s Hidden Feature – Spell Checker
A few months ago Google officially released Google Suggest to be a primary feature on Google’s home page. In a blog post that announced this, the product managers in charge of the feature explained the different improvements including personalized suggestions, … Continue reading
Posted in Search, Tips, User Experience
Tagged Ask, Bing, Google, Google Suggest, Search Queries, Yahoo Search
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TweetDeck for iPhone not on par with TwitterFon Pro
Since the first Twitter clients on the iPhone came out, I have tried many of them. Eventually I picked TwitterFon and when the Pro version was released I immediately upgraded to it. I find the feature set rich, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Twitter, Usability, User Experience, iPhone
Tagged iPhone, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitter, Twitter for iPhone, TwitterFon, Usability, User Experience
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How To Add Signature Right After Reply In Entourage
By default, Microsoft Entourage automatically adds a signature at the very bottom of an email thread. I reply to dozens of emails every day and for a long time I used to cut the signature from the bottom and paste … Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Tips, User Experience
Tagged Gmail, Gmail Labs, How-To, Labels, Microsoft Entourage, Tips, Usability, User Experience
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Topify Upgrades Twitter’s Weakest Link
Arik Fraimovich (the co-creator of QassamCount which I blogged about in the past) together with Ouriel Ohayon (VC & Blogger) launched a very useful service for Twitter called Topify. It is an improved new follower email alert that addresses one … Continue reading
Posted in Twitter, Usability, User Experience
Tagged Arik Fraimovich, Email Notifications, Ouriel Ohayon, QassamCount, Topify, Twitter, User Experience
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My Site Of The Year: US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Nazi Propaganda Exhibit
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC just launched a new exhibit called “State of Deception: The power of Nazi propaganda”. Beyond the live exhibit which I hope to be able to see in DC someday, it also … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, User Experience, Web, events
Tagged Educational Website, Holocaust, Nazi Propoganda
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AutoParenth – Microsoft Excel’s Most Desired Function
I was using Microsoft Excel the other day and had that Eureka moment. I typed in a simple formula that had a closing parenthesis but forgot to put an opening parenthesis. An error message popped up and I realized that … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, User Experience
Tagged Apple, Excel, Google, Microsoft, Office, Usability, User Experience
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