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Sticky Notes (#7 position)
Usability of Back Button (pretty specific query)
Metrics (#6 position)
Javascript Interview Questions (#1 position)
Warchalking (#4; remember warchalking?)
Google Voice Search (WebWord covered this in 2002)
Ghosts throwing or moving things (#1 position)
How to interview User Interface developers (Great query! #4 position)
Voyeur Web (Plenty of useless traffic from search for voyeur; here’s why)
User model (#1 position; […]

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Why would you punish users this way?

A little less than two weeks ago, Apogee posted an article that I wrote about Google advertising.
As it turns out, uiGarden posted the article for your pleasure too. The coolest thing is that you can read it in Chinese. Schweeet!

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Don Norman: “This page illustrates products that have some special positive characteristic worthy of comment.”

“What does this mean to you and your infrastructure requirements? Unless you exercise incredible discipline in pushing back on feature creep, you are likely to have Ajax apps that make more and bigger requests.”
Impact of Ajax Applications on Servers…

“Take drag and drop shopping carts, where you drag product in or out of the space reserved for your cart. This sure looks fancy. But, it is more than 1000% slower to drag and drop, than to simply click an “Add to Shopping Cart” button. Specifically it takes 0.2 seconds to click on any target, […]

Joel Spolsky writes: “Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.”
This is an interesting but also a terrible characterization of usability. It is interesting because it is simple. It captures the gist of usability. At the same time, it is terrible because it assumes that it is possible for something to behave as expected […]

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“Well-designed membership systems can allow community managers to head off trouble before it hits the national news. This article provides an understanding of why online identity matters and offers six steps to help you build stronger online communities.” (Source: A List Apart, Author: John M. Grohol)
My flippant summary: Make people register; they won’t mind

“Out on the Web, having the users and the useful data is the most important thing. Functionality and software in general are becoming relentlessly commoditized as well. A quick search of Sourceforge can find you a dozen versions of just about any software you could want, from GUI toolkits, to databases, to productivity […]

“On a close-up view, you can see on the left face, an angry man and on the right face, a woman with a neutral facial emotion. But further back, the faces change expression and even genders! if you squint, blink, or defocus, an angry man should substitute for the face of the woman and the […]