Al lezend over user interfaces kom je vaak een kromme vergelijking tegen: die tussen een computer en een auto. Een auto wordt dan beschreven als een verschikkelijk ingewikkelde machine met honderden parameters die toch eenvoudig te bedienen is. Een sterk staaltje in vergelijking met de computer, die veel moeilijker te bedienenen is. Deze vergelijking is compleet [...]
Have you seen the little big bag in the shop? Noticed the URL http://littlebigbag.free.fr/? I did, and became curious. It seemed worth the try, and after a couple of times of usage it turns out to be a nice shopping bag. It can store a lot of volume (making it look very funny) and quite [...]
Zou jij dit kunnen weerstaan? Ik wel. Aanvankelijk. Na twee weken werd het me te machtig Update: een helpdesker van Fortis PC Banking weet meer…
After using Enso for a while, I noticed that it eventually could replace some of my favorite software tools: Firefox bookmark keywords / keyword searches Alt+F2 mini-shell command widget on Linux Launchy on Windows A text replacement tool like Texter I really liked it because it ‘just works’, and has a lot of potential for extensions. In a way, [...]
Since I’ve read the book “The Humane Interface” by user interface pioneer Jef Raskin, I’ve tried to follow his accomplishments. I was sad to learn that early versions of ‘THE’ (The Humane Environment) were quite disappointing — not so much in innovation but rather in quality and maturity. It was even more sad to read in in [...]
I’ve been reading my “Agile web development with Rails” book, which I bought at FOSDEM in early 2006. It had been lying around half-unread every since. Of course, by now the latest Rails releases have deprecated some stuff that’s recommended in the book, but almost everything is still compatible. Trying out the examples in [...]
Gmail has a very funny hiccup in its Dutch interface…
How the online PDF reader software of Mediamark is used in a rather unproductive way.
The internet is full of usability problems, most of which are already thorougly described in books and websites.
One thing that I’ve not yet read about, but that’s been bothering me nonetheless, is the decreasing usefullness of the scrollbar.
One of my favorite technology inventions is ‘Bubble Babble’, a human-friendly encoding for random data.