Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Notes on Play, Exploration, Challenge and Learning

In Articles on 17 April 2008 tagged adaptation, challenge, Dan Saffer, difficulty, Donald Norman, exploration, flow, game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, learning, Matt Jones, play, rules, usability, user experience, UX with Comments Off

(My reading notes are piling up so here’s an attempt to clear out at least a few of them.) Part of the play experience of many digital games is figuring out how the damn thing works in the first place. In Rules of Play on page 210: “[…] as the player plays with FLUID, interaction [...]

Web of Data — Third of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes

In Articles on 24 April 2007 tagged conferences, events, IA, IA Summit 2007, information architecture, mash-ups, physical computing, RSS, usability, web 2.0, web as platform, web of data with 5 comments

(Here’s the third post on the 2007 IA Summit. You can find the first one that introduces the series and describes the first theme ‘tangible’ here and the second one on ‘social’ here.) Typically, IAs have concerned themselves with the design of web sites. The metaphor most suited and used for the web so far [...]

Construction Continues – Tag Cloud in the Archives

In Articles on 16 March 2006 tagged about, blogging, tag clouds, tagging, trends, usability with Comments Off

Now and then I get around to adding another feature to this blog. A few days ago I plugged hitormiss’ weighted list into the archives page. Now I know tag clouds are the new mullets, and usability of these things is contested, but I just had to have one. It’s my blog and I’ll tag [...]

Restaurant Usability

In Articles on 14 March 2006 tagged food, restaurants, usability, user experience, UX with 5 comments

I ran into this curious sign while out for lunch today. A small restaurant specialising in pie (vlaai) had these huge letters in the window, saying: “you can sit here as well”. Obviously, if they made it obvious to potential clients that they had seating, they wouldn’t need the sign – or is it a [...]

Rojo Redesign Revisited

In Articles on 28 February 2006 tagged blogging, Rojo, usability with Comments Off

Are Rojo reading my blog? In any case, they’ve fixed the issue I talked about earlier in this post. Huzzah!

De User Experience Van Bol.com

In Articles on 21 July 2005 tagged Bol.com, usability, user experience, UX with 1 comment

Ik schreef onlangs een licht gekscherend stuk over een drietal raar geformuleerde opties in een adresformulier van Bol.com. Vandaag, nog geen week nadat ik de klantenservice van Bol.com op het artikeltje had gewezen, krijg ik een e-mail terug. Bol.com belooft er mee aan de slag te gaan, ze bedanken me voor de oplettendheid en bieden [...]

Hoe Geen Opties Aan Te Bieden

In Articles on 17 July 2005 tagged Bol.com, usability, user experience, UX with 4 comments

Iets waar je tijdens het online kopen van een boek op zondagochtend niet op voorbereid bent: breinbrekende keuzes aangeboden door een bestelformulier. Mijn betere helft wilde graag een boek voor een vriendin bestellen (het geweldige ‘Zorg’ van Miguel Bulnes) en deze als cadeau laten bezorgen. Bol.com had het boek op voorraad, dus werd besloten van [...]