Google's switch to answers.com was driven by user experience

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"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

User-driven integration

User-driven integration 02/18/2004 11:59 AM
Tim Hodson's LibraryLookup bookmarklet broke when his library upgraded its OPAC. So he fixed it:

Have used your lookup many times, until our library service started to use a new OPAC! Talis Information systems have released a new OPAC which is called Talis Prism. For a while I thought my lovely lookup would never work again, but I have recently discovered (by changing their post form variables to gets with the marvellous firefox browser and a web developers toolbar) that a get version of their page works just as well.

Thanks Tim! I love to see users hacking their library systems this way. I've taken the URL pattern that Tim figured out and added it to the build your own bookmarklet service; Talis Prism now becomes the twelfth supported OPAC. I can no longer keep up with the static lists that I originally compiled in order to seed this project. But I'm always on the lookout for new patterns -- like the one Tim has provided -- that enable users to generate their own bookmarklets for some previously unsupported class of OPAC system. ...

"Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new
look"

"Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new
look" 03/08/2004 11:16 PM

Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new
look

Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new
look 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Bookmarklet to toggle Google's new look .. this nifty bookmarklet .. written a bookmarklet .. Jessy Ruderman

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User Experience MX

User Experience MX 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

The new Macromedia site is simple and clean and I like it, though I'm finding it takes me more steps to find things they used to have on the front page of their site. Granted, the home page used to be cluttered and offered 50 options of where to go.

The most interesting thing I found on the new site was their new commitment to user experience issues as a cornerstone of their business.

While I can picture the marketing team sipping lattes in their "war room" with a huge banner carrying their new slogan "great experiences build great businesses", it's refreshing to hear a major web firm (especially one known for reducing usability in the past *cough* skip intro *cough*) realize the importance of user experience on their bottom line.

Adap tive Path has been preaching this for the past couple years, but it's nice to see a major corporation listening.

How To Quantify The User Experience

How To Quantify The User Experience 04/20/2004 10:19 PM
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The Elements of User Experience

The Elements of User Experience 07/19/2002 10:46 AM

User Experience Design

User Experience Design 06/22/2004 12:19 PM
new diagram that describes the move of user experience beyond usability .. You can see it and learn more about it over here .. ux honey comb

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Windows XP SP2 user experience

Windows XP SP2 user experience 06/08/2004 08:30 PM
Kudos to Microsoft's Channel 9 for posting a reasonable video snapshot of some of the new security-focused user experience in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Not to say I think the new experience will be a cake walk. Quoting Rebecca...

The Politics of User Experience

The Politics of User Experience 10/22/2002 06:43 AM

Google Maps and user experience

Google Maps and user experience 04/06/2005 12:06 PM

Earlier this week, Google integrated their recently acquired Keyhole technology into Google Maps, allowing the user to toggle between the abstract map view and a satellite view. The addition was pre tty big news, and I was pretty excited when I saw this feature, as were many others. Matt Haughey even did a Maps/Flickr mashup in creating a memory map of his childhood stomping grounds; others followed suit.

The ability to view satellite images online has been around for years in the form of Microsoft's Terraserver (and also on a mapping site that I can't locate right now...I swear Mapquest let you switch back and forth between the two views, but I can't find it), so this really isn't anything new. Terraserver lets you zoom in/out, move around the map, and view other versions of the map (they have a topological version), and I know that many of the people who are so excited about Google Maps are familar with it. So why is everyone so excited about it?

Part of it is Google's involvement...they draw a crowd of attention anytime they do anything these days. But it also has a lot to do with someone I wrote about a couple of years ago: it's the user experience, stupid:

Robert Morris from IBM argued last year at Etech 2002 that -- and I'm paraphrasing from memory here -- most significant advances in software are actually advances in user experience, not in technology. Mosaic was not an advancement in technology over TBL's original browser. Blogger is a highly-specialized FTP client. IM is IRC++ (or IRC for Dummies, depending on your POV). The advantages that these applications offered people were user experience-oriented, not technology-oriented.

The satellite feature on Google is no exception. They took something that's been around for years, made it way easier to use (reposition & zoom maps without reloading, pinpoint addresses and routes onto the satellite imagery, toggle between sat and road maps, map size automatically scales to the browser window, etc.), and suddenly this old thing is much more useful and fun to play around with. Ajax is the underlying technology (which isn't new either) for many of the notable Google Maps features, but how Google used it to make a useful user experience is the real story here.

User Experience Design Honeycomb

User Experience Design Honeycomb 06/25/2004 05:44 AM
User Experience Design Honeycomb
ht tp://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php

An excellent resource from Peter Morville"s column Semantics about information architecture and strategy discussing the user experience design Honeycomb. The Honeycomb is broken down into seven facets of user experience: Useful, Usable, Desirable, Findable, Accessible, Credible and Valuable.

PeopleSoft talks about user experience

PeopleSoft talks about user experience 05/19/2004 04:33 PM
Improving the user experience was a key topic at PeopleSoft’s annual Leadership Summit 2004, which included keynote speeches by company executives as well as special guests Al Gore and Bob Dole.

Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting

Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting 05/11/2004 05:51 PM
Adaptive Path: User Experience Consulting .. redesign of the Adaptive Path .. adaptive_path! .. AdaptivePath .. Guru's .. good .. lien .. our .. AP

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Book Review: The Elements of the User
Experience

Book Review: The Elements of the User
Experience 10/30/2002 04:53 AM

Jeffrey Veen: User Experience is More
Than Design

Jeffrey Veen: User Experience is More
Than Design 07/29/2004 11:44 PM
Veen on the user experience of the new Sony Network Walkman .. User experience is more than design

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Designing the Complete User Experience
Downloads

Designing the Complete User Experience
Downloads 06/28/2004 04:58 AM
that adaptive path bunch is quite generous

Book Review: The Elements of User
Experience

Book Review: The Elements of User
Experience 01/09/2003 07:22 AM

Updated Longhorn User Experience:
Contacts

Updated Longhorn User Experience:
Contacts 05/24/2004 09:17 AM
This preliminary chapter from the updated Windows User Experience guidelines describes how to use features such as the contact explorer and communication history to give your users a centralized store for contacts and messages, access to contact data and communication commands, and an aggregated view of all such data across all Windows-based applications.

Maximizing user experience of the Mobile
Internet

Maximizing user experience of the Mobile
Internet 11/19/2003 02:06 PM
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Fast User Switch from AppleScript

Fast User Switch from AppleScript 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
Here's an AppleScript to switch users, inspired by this item at MacOSXHints.com.

Switch Terminal colors per user

Switch Terminal colors per user 12/28/2004 10:47 AM
After the recent post about switching iTerm's colors, and reading the post about dynamically switching to random colors in Terminal, I decided to look for a way to switch to pre-determined colors in Terminal per user. I use ...

How Image Links Can Help Build a Better
User and Search Experience

How Image Links Can Help Build a Better
User and Search Experience 03/28/2005 11:58 PM

Improving the User Experience Online for
Library Users

Improving the User Experience Online for
Library Users 06/28/2004 10:08 AM

I would love to get a grant to have 37signals design an online library catalog. I've been reading their book Defensive Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points because I'm redesigning our merged web site/extranet/intranet, and while most of the suggestions in the book are fairly intuitive, most of us don't take the time to add in all the little niceties and user-supportive framework. It's a very quick read and an easy ILL for library webmasters.

It looks like I'll be using ColdFusion on a Windows server for the new MLS site, so if anyone has suggestions for CF-based aggregators, RSS-generators, bulletin boards, blogging software, and kitchen-sink functionality, I'd love to hear them.

13-March-2003 -- Expanding the
Approaches to User Experience

13-March-2003 -- Expanding the
Approaches to User Experience 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
Expanding the Approaches to User Experience (Boxes and Arrows) -- "Jesse James Garrett’s “The Elements of User Experience” diagram (17kb...

User Experience and Search Engines: If
Your Home Page Could Only Talk

User Experience and Search Engines: If
Your Home Page Could Only Talk 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

'Not Found' Is Not An Option: Error
Handling and User Experience

'Not Found' Is Not An Option: Error
Handling and User Experience 07/14/2004 01:49 AM
WebmasterBase Jul 14 2004 4:32AM GMT

User experience accountability:
Assessing your impact on business
results

User experience accountability:
Assessing your impact on business
results 11/16/2003 05:56 AM

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
I couldn't imagine how it would be deactivated, but I found out: if you and the user you're switching to have different screen resolutions, depths or refresh rates, your fast user switching transition will be like a resolutio...

adaptive path » organization in
the way: how decentralization hobbles
the user experience

adaptive path » organization in
the way: how decentralization hobbles
the user experience 09/06/2004 08:12 PM
adaptive path organization in the way: how decentralization hobbles the user experience .. organisational barriers to good user experiences

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The User Experience of Government Online
Recommendations for a Citizen-Centric
Future

The User Experience of Government Online
Recommendations for a Citizen-Centric
Future 01/17/2003 04:27 AM

The total user experience: How to make
it positive in future wireless systems
and services

The total user experience: How to make
it positive in future wireless systems
and services 12/07/2003 08:20 AM

Google's Per-User AdSense Tweaking

Google's Per-User AdSense Tweaking 02/01/2005 10:14 PM
As reported by Inside Google: Google is testing out a new functionality for AdSense that allows users who are not satisfied with the current ads being served to choose a different set of ads. This is a just unbelievable idea. Google is truly pushing the idea that its ads are more than just ads, they're useful, and I commend it. There's an example on this page. Interesting stuff....

KAZAM Technologies helps Wireless
Operators build the Ultimate User
Experience in light of
telecommunications deregulation

KAZAM Technologies helps Wireless
Operators build the Ultimate User
Experience in light of
telecommunications deregulation 08/03/2004 02:14 AM
KAZAM Technologies announces its service offering providing critical support to wireless Operators in regions undergoing increased competition through telecommunications deregulation. [PRWEB Aug 3, 2004]

Electrophysics® PV-320™ Series of
Infrared Imagers Deliver Advanced
Imaging Technologies Fine Tuned to
Enhance Operability and the End User
Experience

Electrophysics® PV-320™ Series of
Infrared Imagers Deliver Advanced
Imaging Technologies Fine Tuned to
Enhance Operability and the End User
Experience 03/14/2005 04:08 PM
Remaining at the forefront of technological innovation, Electrophysics is proud to offer its PV-320 series of infrared imagers. Underscored by a host of state-of-the-art features, the PV-320 is one of the most technically advanced line imaging solutions available and is suitable for a variety of applications including temperature analysis, laser beam profiling, NDT, medical imaging and metrology. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Ascentis Announces First Annual HROffice
User Conference: Invites HROffice
Customers and Partners to “Experience”
Seattle in September

Ascentis Announces First Annual HROffice
User Conference: Invites HROffice
Customers and Partners to “Experience”
Seattle in September 03/31/2005 03:44 AM
Ascentis Corporation today announced the opening of attendee registration for its first annual HROffice User Conference being held Sept. 21-23 at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

GuruNet's Answers.com Now Provides Free
Instant Reference Answers

GuruNet's Answers.com Now Provides Free
Instant Reference Answers 01/05/2005 01:44 PM
Answers.com, GuruNets's site-and-software combination that provides instant reference answers is now free to users.

Good Experience - Budgeting for
Advertising and Customer Experience

Good Experience - Budgeting for
Advertising and Customer Experience 07/30/2004 08:59 PM
What if companies spent their money on improving customer experience rather than on marketing? .. Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience

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