Entries from April 2006

April 29, 2006

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Yahoo! Shopping Notebook Computer SmartSort
Yahoo’s ajax computer sorter. In Internet Explorer you can use sliders to automatically update the products to match more closely your criteria.
(tags: ajax yahoo shopping)

Yahoo! Babel Fish – Translation
Once an altavista tool, now Yahoo add it to their portfolio…
(tags: translation tool)

CollyLogic: Redesign Notes 1: Width-based layout
Another way of changing layout based [...]

April 28, 2006

Pre bank holiday weekend procrastination

Ricky Gervais’ were very popular (at least when they were free), now Jamie Oliver is jumping on the bandwagon with his own podcasts. He’s inviting people to phone up and leave a question which could be answered in the show. I’ll definitely give them a go, he’s usually pretty entertaining and I could do with [...]

April 28, 2006

links for 2006-04-28

Intuitect – User experience begins with you — Intuitect – User experience begins with you
visio add on to streamline IA deliverables – need to try this…
(tags: ia visio tool)

Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus: Kalbach and Bosenick: JoDI
The usability of two Web page layouts was directly compared: one with the main site navigation [...]

April 27, 2006

links for 2006-04-27

Reputation — eBay Feedback: Overview
An explanation as to how reputation feedback works on ebay
(tags: community moderation)

lixlpixel javascript tooltips | tooltips which stick to the cursor
This script uses javascript to trigger the display of a pop-up tooltip on mouseover you can assign the tooltip to any element of your page and then keeps the tooltip [...]

April 26, 2006

A rant on left navigation

I agree that it’s not always the case, but I think there needs to be a good argument against alphabetical left navigation, such as if there was some kind of order in which the user should be doing / reading stuff, or that there aren’t that many links.
If something is perceived as more important than [...]

April 26, 2006

links for 2006-04-26

Design for Community: Essay: Gaming the system: How moderation tools can backfire
(tags: community moderation)

Usability News – 5.1 2003 — Paging vs. Scrolling:
The findings from this study show that participants using the paging condition took significantly longer to read the passages than either the full or scrolling conditions
(tags: usability ia research scrolling)

April 25, 2006

links for 2006-04-25

Everything in Moderation: On four types of moderation…
(tags: moderation community)

April 24, 2006

links for 2006-04-24

hotel linda vista
near arenal volcano
(tags: costarica honeymoon)

April 21, 2006

links for 2006-04-21

Skatter Tech » Stream iTunes Library To PSP
(tags: psp itunes music)

April 20, 2006

links for 2006-04-20

swipr.com
(tags: ia tool visio)