Tag Archives: usability

inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection

That is prac­ti­cally the def­i­n­i­tion of great soft­ware, caus­ing your users delight in the every­day workings.

January 24, 2012 – 7:37 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Programming, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.

January 1, 2012 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Design, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome

That pretty much sums up every bit of expe­ri­ence of Android I’ve ever heard.

October 17, 2011 – 8:17 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Daring Fireball – The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM

When I posted the link about Win­dows 8 being able to run nor­mal desk­top apps, I some­what flip­pantly said that it “could keep Win­dows 8 from being truly awe­some”, this is why.

September 20, 2011 – 9:03 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users

Wikipedia’s mobile ver­sion while typ­i­cally not known for it’s usabil­ity is used as a good exam­ple of hid­ing infor­ma­tion until needed.

August 1, 2011 – 11:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Programming, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

J-P Teti – The iPad is 99% more open than any other computer

The iPad does more or at least is per­ceived as doing more, that’s truly is what matters.

March 26, 2011 – 7:35 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Marketing, Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Your Site, Your Design

More con­tent own­ers are wish­ing to make it eas­ier for peo­ple to share their con­tent in a well mean­ing attempt to attract more read­ers, unfor­tu­nately I think they are ruin­ing the thing that peo­ple are most inter­ested in, the con­tent itself.

February 2, 2011 – 2:00 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Social Media, User Experience, Web Design, Writings | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off