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Review: Mac information managers

Zaharenia puts three of her favorite Mac information managers to the test.
Java now with added Yahoo!?

Sun is the latest to bundle it’s free download with a toolbar. Good idea?

Trust me on this. If audiences had an unlimited attention span, I’d be in my second term as President.

Al Gore
Investing in UX

Jon Lax shares the results of the UX Fund. Does great UX equal stock price growth?
Google vs. Zoho Notebook Michael Stiso compares two web notebook heavyweights.
The Dark Google Myth

Kevin Muller looks at the technology behind the myth.
Re-thinking the Medicine Cabinet

Brandon Schauer interviews Deborah Adler on the Clear RX bottle design and her inspirations.
Don’t let branding kill your brand

Damon takes a look at brand guidelines and how they counteract with the User Experience
New Google Docs Released

Another day, another UI update. We look at Google’s decision to go “classic”.
Conversion Rate Optimization - Part 2

Part 2 explores even more benefits of the Google Optimizer
Check Your Disciplines At The Door

Taking a look at collaboration across disciplines.
Conversion Rate Optimization - Part 1

Frederick Towne looks at converting site visitors to buyers
Abundance and UX

Is abundance necessary for user experience to thrive?
What Is Holding User Experience Back Where You Work?

Richard Anderson looks at what propels the user experience “boat” forward?
Hit The Blue Up

When we get worried about dumbing something down, whose intelligence are we worried about insulting?

New Google Analytics: First Impressions

Google’s free metrics service gets an upgrade.
Stop Using Your Shoppers

A look at the causes of mass cart abandon.
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Thing of Beauty: Space Invaders

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The Impact Mozilla contest is putting the Firefox marketing efforts in the hands of the community. Check it out, and vote!

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I’ll be posting some info & sneak peeks of the UX Magazine redesign to Twitter. Here are a couple you may have missed.

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YouTube’s latest features – namely annotations – bring a new level of interactivity to video online. The latest game is titled The Time Machine, and features an array of video clips which if viewed in the right order will complete the story. An earlier game with similar features was Samsung’s Follow your instinct. Reminds me of the good ol days when I used to read those multiple timeline books…

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Google has just announced the launch of themes for Gmail. Some are crazy fun, others offer an actual valid alternative to the current theme. Like the fact that some designs even change the Gmail logo. Takes a secure brand to allow that.

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We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. It’s time to give up and use tables. Via Ajaxian.

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I give you a complete, real-world working version of the UI Tom Cruise was fondling in Minority Report. Not sure what type of repetitive stress injury you’ll bring upon yourself waving your arms around like that all day but it certainly is an awesome sight to behold.

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Reconstructing popular and known sites, by removing all text and images… it’s sounds like a win-win situation for all designers. Check out Yahoo and CNN at the web.without.words

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Flash Player 10 is out on all platforms today. A pretty solid list of new features makes this one of the most anticipated versions to date.

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Regardless of what U.S. candidate you support there is little debate that Barack Obama has been rocking the web. This well designed tax calculator is the latest example. Policy debates are never clear enough to show how an individual will benefit. This makes it dead simple and visually shows the differences. Even the URL helps make it clear. Nicely done.

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Harbour in a bathtub — wonderful video by Keith Loutit.

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We’re digging the Experience Design Manifesto. “Experiences must be immersive and sensorial. The more it talks to human senses, the better it will be.” — Exactly.

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YouTube adds click-to-buy feature. Monetizing online video is a bitch but since a large segment of YouTube’s audience uses the service to watch music videos upselling digital downloads is probably a good idea.

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Marco Weskamp's Newsmap

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The Impact Mozilla contest is putting the Firefox marketing efforts in the hands of the community. Check it out, and vote!

Permalink | Add comment

I’ll be posting some info & sneak peeks of the UX Magazine redesign to Twitter. Here are a couple you may have missed.

Permalink | Read comments (31)

YouTube’s latest features – namely annotations – bring a new level of interactivity to video online. The latest game is titled The Time Machine, and features an array of video clips which if viewed in the right order will complete the story. An earlier game with similar features was Samsung’s Follow your instinct. Reminds me of the good ol days when I used to read those multiple timeline books…

Permalink | Add comment

Google has just announced the launch of themes for Gmail. Some are crazy fun, others offer an actual valid alternative to the current theme. Like the fact that some designs even change the Gmail logo. Takes a secure brand to allow that.

Permalink | Read comments (5)

We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. It’s time to give up and use tables. Via Ajaxian.

Permalink | Read comments (6)

I give you a complete, real-world working version of the UI Tom Cruise was fondling in Minority Report. Not sure what type of repetitive stress injury you’ll bring upon yourself waving your arms around like that all day but it certainly is an awesome sight to behold.

Permalink | Add comment

Reconstructing popular and known sites, by removing all text and images… it’s sounds like a win-win situation for all designers. Check out Yahoo and CNN at the web.without.words

Permalink | Read comments (3)

Flash Player 10 is out on all platforms today. A pretty solid list of new features makes this one of the most anticipated versions to date.

Permalink | Read comments (3)

Regardless of what U.S. candidate you support there is little debate that Barack Obama has been rocking the web. This well designed tax calculator is the latest example. Policy debates are never clear enough to show how an individual will benefit. This makes it dead simple and visually shows the differences. Even the URL helps make it clear. Nicely done.

Permalink | Read comments (8)

Harbour in a bathtub — wonderful video by Keith Loutit.

Permalink | Add comment

We’re digging the Experience Design Manifesto. “Experiences must be immersive and sensorial. The more it talks to human senses, the better it will be.” — Exactly.

Permalink | Add comment

YouTube adds click-to-buy feature. Monetizing online video is a bitch but since a large segment of YouTube’s audience uses the service to watch music videos upselling digital downloads is probably a good idea.

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