Displaying posts tagged: user-experience

UX London

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Clearleft launched their UX London site just before Christmas. The line-up looks awesome. Jared Spool and Jeff Veen were both great at SXSW this year and I'd love to see the others speak too.

Fundamentos Web: Social Network Portability

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Tantek Çelik's slides from his talk on Social Network Portability are a very good, quick read as an introduction to supporting social network portability on your own site/service using microformats. The slides include real, practical demonstrations of how it can be done and having made a bit of a start (i.e. not a good-enough start) on ...

OAuth 1st draft released

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I'm a bit late on this, but the first draft of the OAuth spec has been published. OAuth is (very roughly) an OpenID equivalent for applications - it lets a 'consumer' application (the standard example seems to be a printing service) contact a service provider (continuing the example, say flickr) to request information from one of ...

Getting user feedback - don't make it hard!

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I just uninstalled the DivX driver from my PC as it currently doesn't work very well on Vista (slow and pops up with auth requests the first time you open a DivX video). On uninstalling, it opened a form in my browser asking for a bit of feedback on why I was removing the software. This ...

Making the customer jump through hoops

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Yesterday my brother sent me a file through YouSendIt. As the person receiving the file, all I wanted to do was click the link in the email and have the download start. Instead, I was made to jump through hoops by YouSendIt's website before I could finally download the file I'd been sent. The email I ...