Do you wish to know the inner workings of the user experience team behind Ask.com? The secret sauce is surprisingly common sense: Focus on product, be inclusive and flexible on participation, and prioritize solutions above constraints. Seems easy… but in this article I contrast this approach to the different alternatives in the industry. Some sadly prevalent. Bottom line: Place Design ahead of Specs!
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Do we still need the “Open/Save Dialog Box” on modern graphical interfaces? This article proposes that this device is as outdated as “application-centric operating systems”. When documents are the focus of an environment (as they should), wormholes to a different dimension (That is: A window to a “different application” such as Vista’s Windows Explorer or Mac OS’s Finder) are as unnecessary as cheap Science Fiction Pulp… Entertaining? Yes. Realistic and necessary? No.
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A simple proposal to improve the warning notifications in current user interfaces by the exploitation of our instinctive reaction known as “Threat Detection” (William James, Henry Holt, Arne Öhman and others).
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Behold, the concept of instinctaneous is born. This website will be devoted to the cause of improving user experience and interface design through the use of instinctaneous techniques and devices.
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