Tag Archives: User experience

Get to the point

Get to your point immediately or readers will abandon you. This is especially so online. No one is willing to plow through that first little bit you write to guide a reader into your subject. It is “now or never” … Continue reading

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Is usability kaput?

Whatever happened to Jakob Nielsen? Do you remember him? Do you remember when usability and user experience were the terms of the day and we were all bound and determined to make technology, particularly Internet related technology, user-friendly? Easy to … Continue reading

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You can’t break wind online

You can’t fart online. You can’t have strong body odour like you have after jogging or working out at the gym. Not online. Online, you can see pictures of my dog. Were I to make a video or an audio … Continue reading

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Damn! The hoo-hah works!

I was looking at Amazon’s newest notion, Windowshop.com, a new site for … well, window shopping online. I went there and did the usual rolling of the eyes. A lot of online flim-flam, multimedia falderal with little substance. I get … Continue reading

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Writers incognito

There are writers among us but they are sometimes not easy to recognize. Writing, often viewed as a profession of the lower orders, traditionally pays rather poorly. In order to escape this ghetto-ish trap, a writer will often call him … Continue reading

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