Rethinking the UI in Google’s Chrome OS
Early yesterday morning I was greeted with this blog post on Google’s official blog. It revealed that Google is building an OS based on their browser, Chrome. Naturally, this sent ripples through…
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Pixels to Points Conversion in Adobe InDesign CS4
An issue that usually comes up when wireframing in a program that is vector based such as Indesign or Illustrator is that you are really just guessing what size the fonts should be. This can create…
Book Review: Buyology
This book was introduced to me just before I moved to Berlin during a lecture back in Rotterdam. It seemed pretty interesting, to be honest. Amazon’s user reviews were also quite favorable so I…
Google’s Gmail Ninjas: Example of Persuasion
Just a few minutes ago on Techrunch I saw that Google introduced a novel concept to get people to use their more advanced Gmail features. It is basically a list of things you could try out on…
The Death of the Console
Ok, maybe the title is a little too dramatic, but a recent post over on Techcrunch had some very interesting video footage of how well games can be rendered in a browser.
This post comes as a…
This post comes as a…
Me ebook now in Spanish: Introducción a la Usabilidad
This post is long overdue (apologies for that!), but the Virtual Learning Environment Programme (EVA) of the Andalusia Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise and the Technological…
The Browser of the Future: Sans-Chrome?
A few days ago, Google unveiled Wave, new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. I didn’t have time to watch the entire unveiling but the reports have been pretty positive up until…
What is a Browser?
Via Rogier Bikker I saw this quite interesting clip, where a Scott, apparently a Google employee asks people on the streets of New York what they think a browser is. Most of them (92%) don’t seem…
Spotify: Usability as a Product
This actually started off as a lengthy post detailing Spotify’s usability issues. Then, I realized, what was actually more interesting to talk about is not the fact that the service has some…
