I'd generally agree that real estate at the top of the page tends to be too
valuable to spend on pagination.
Some points:
- In e-commerce, pagination tends to be used to a greater degree than the
low/1% stat from web search
- The #1 use case I've seen for top of page pagination, while
Even better, Marti Hearst has published her recent book on search user
interfaces online!
http://searchuserinterfaces.com/
Marti is responsible for the amazing faceted navigation project called
Flamenco:
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/pubs.html
new-boun...@ixda.org wrote on 12/08/2009 12:48:34
The leading open source faceted search tool is Solr, a deriviant of the
longstanding freetext engine Lucene.
See it in action, paired with Drupal, at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/search/site/social%20security
http://www.whitehouse.gov/search/site/social%20securityAdding Drupal to
the mix makes a
I've been very happy to see the calendar fade away as a primary navigation
tool for blogs. See my 2005 post (BLOG CALENDARS ARE BAD HYPERTEXT) on the
topic http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=53
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Pia Gabel piaga...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi there,
has anyone ever
I'm no Weave expert but a couple of things to note:
- Weave data is heavily encrypted at the server and along the pipes
- It includes not just bookmarks but other critical aspects of your
profile like history, partial form completions, and open tabs.
It's really about recreating your
Back to the iphone topic, there are lots of tools for using HTML/JS to build
iphone apps.
Phonegap, http://www.phonegap.com, is open source and has limited support
for native tab bars. I built my first iphone app with this (iblipper.com).
TitaniumApp.com is a hybrid open source SAAS play with
Wow! I don't even have time to go beyond the first two points!
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:39 AM, William Brall dam...@earthlink.net wrote:
Initial page is garbage. They should have used the same page as all
the other pages.
The key objective, I believe, of this is to engage users with the
In the end, maybe users just don't care about whether they see 9
results per page? They're more concerned about actual results, not
whether it shows 9 or 10 on a page, right?
Right, the critical information is the Page # for backtracking and landmarks.
A simple solution is to say Page 1 of
Also noteworthy for Atlanteans, MobiCamp is happening Friday May 29th
at the GA Tech ATDC : http://www.mobicamp.me/
http://www.MobileCampAtlanta.org/ is coming this late spring/summer.
Cheers
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Barbara Ballard
barb...@littlespringsdesign.com wrote:
I'll be
It's important to note that AIR has two user interface toolkits: HTML
via the Webkit rendering engine and their Flex UI toolkit (declarative
grids, buttons, etc) with support for Flash in both cases. The rise of
webKit as a platform for rich networked applications is quite
interesting. IE has
Web search in particular is one of the most utilitarian instances of
software these days. Having spent 2.5 years doing search quality / UX
assessment at MSFT, I'm a firm believer that every change in search
should be tested vigorously and that a design team that isn't
enthusiastic about testing
While perhaps not great ammo for your case, I do have an interesting
conclusion from testing auto-play. We installed videos on product
pages that auto-played for about 45 seconds in a split test
configuration (no video, vs autoplay). The effect was slightly
negative on conversion, but we could
I'd throw in a YES too and strongly dispute the waste of time proposition.
Planet sites serve a variety of purposes for different audiences. Two of
my favorites are:http://planet.socialmediaresearch.org/
http://planet.mozilla.org
I would encourage folks submitting RSS to use a targeted category
The Mozilla labs team, under Aza's leadership, is making headway in bringing
usability test results into the collaborative environment.
Zac Lym, a mozilla intern with mentorship from myself and others, has been
doing tests and struggling to make these consumable to the Ubiquity
development team.
For more linkage, see http://delicious.com/andyed/opensource+usability
The openusability.org site Adrian referenced is a sort of virtual agency.
The Mozilla efforts are I think the culmination of a rising trend here,
capping work in Usability sprints, along with more dedicated projects in
GIMP,
After testing a safety incident reporting form with 50 factory workers in
2004, I came up with a edit mode / read mode model for multiple selection.
Only 1 of 50 participants reported knowing ctrl-click (none used it), and
49/50 checked email regularly.
I released the code to open source and
James, this phenomena is exceedingly common. Termed navigational queries, or
more generally known item finding, it was recently estimated to be 30% of
searches by researchers at Yahoo. That data and a lot of context at
http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=119 . I'm not sure of a term that describes
One implementation I didn't see mentioned is the OS X 10.5 addition of
boolean logic using the more friendly any of or all of terminology.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/12
Welcome to the Interaction Design
My data on ctrl-click is fairly old, but working with about 50 upstate South
Carolina factory workers in 2004, while the majority checked their email
daily, only 1 knew about control click.
hth, A
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Danny Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/6 Cyrus Karbassiyoon
workarounds, which would block a self-guided learner.
Cheers,
Andy Edmonds, Agile Project Management, http://www.versionone.com
Bojhan Somers wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I work with a lot of developers who give training on the system they
develop, recently they noticed that a lot of their recommendations
That is impressively bad. On a serious note, chunking long menus has a
highly demonstrable ROI. We obtained a 25% decrease in bounce rate and
overall 10% boost in revenue by chunking and adding headine to a left nav on
an e-commerce site.
Case study presented @ minute 16 at
We did extensive testing in an intensely competitive, and highly
deliberated e-com scenario, myWeddingFavors.com.
The winning solution for short product videos had a dramatic impact on
overall conversion, but several of the intervening steps had a negative
impact. Due to the prominence of the
If you've got technical, highly frequent users, my bet is a CLI is a
good addition. One of the coolest things about Ubiquity is the potential
to re-use the natural language structure and UI for your own application.
I'm also looking forward to having a CLI for querying history and
bookmarks
Interesting!
There are two ways this could easily be much more interesting:
1) I've always done a zooming effect in spiral layouts. This negates
the effect of increasing whitespace in the outer regions. (see
http://www.surfmind.com/musings/2004/05/25/)
2) Some amazing research shows that the
Heh, you see the same thing in India for SEO. I bet this is the result
of normalization of term frequencies across markets.
India has a high degree of out-sourcing in web development and seo and
I'm guessing NL has a pretty strong design community. This hypothesis
made a bit more sense for
The bigger point here is that this is part of a CFP from Mozilla Labs
for contributions from designers for whom the normal open source
contribution channels are a bit challenging:
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-the-concept-series-call-for-participation/
This is an interesting
The UI design is interesting as well. Multi-column search layouts have
typically not fared very well at scale, though I personally like them
just fine.
It seems that avoiding a costly scroll for examining more results would
be a win, but people are quite use to a single column and it makes
So far about even mix so far between positive and negative...
I once considered tilting the grid a little to the right, so that either
up/down or left/right strategies would get the intended rank ordering.
For Cuil, the inclusion of graphics from the page helps make the column
layout more
I was impressed enough to contact the developer -- the normal community
tools I expect of an open source project were missing from the site. It's
built on Mozilla, using the app-runtime XUL Runner and is a GPL project.
Coming soon it seems to http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil
I had an
This is a very interesting question... the real heart of the matter is
that users have a huge amount of experience with the list model. Any
innovation attempts have the deck stacked against them due to the
largely utilitarian nature of web search and this experience.
I wrote a very
for that reason (code from '99) that logged mousemiles, start
x/y, end x/y, etc. (http://lucidity.sourceforge.net).
The CF projects:
http://xmlviews.riaforge.org/
http://www.halhelms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=code.detail
Cheers,
Andy Edmonds
StomperNet, LLC
Scrutinizer 1.0 Launched Today! A vision
Yes, your hamburger example is funny!
But UIE has strong data showing that longer links work better. See
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.uie.com+link+length
and specifically the commercial offering:
http://www.uie.com/reports/scent_of_information/
-A
AJKock wrote:
Where in
Nabble offers a full RSS feed for this list, and many other HCI lists:
http://www.nabble.com/ixdg.org-f2305.html
Dan Harrelson wrote:
The feed only displays snippets of each message. Is this a design
decision or is there some technical limitation on the IxDA backend
enforcing this limit?
Wow, the cardinal sin of flash movies at work: designing a custom,
substandard scrollbar for a long list.
This one is amazingly common in big company implementations -- albeit,
typically executed by clueless marketing agencies (e.g.
http://flickr.com/photos/andyed/2349064850/)
The scroll
Wow, what skepticism in this thread! I'll admit that I don't use my eye
tracker as often as split testing, but I do feel compelled to offer a
more positive view on the matter.
The #1 utility of the eye tracker, for me, is in helping me understand
the user's cognition during a test session.
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