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I recently started a blog on Frank Miller’s “300″ movie to test out a few new things that I’ve learned about (e.g., Google Custom Search, Amazon aStore, Feedburner). 
I decided to add another video of the 300 trailer to my 300 blog, just like I’ve done using Google Video a couple of times. Instead of using Google […]

Thought Affects Movement, Movement Affects Thought — “How we move (or imagine moving) our bodies changes our thoughts. And if there’s a mismatch between thought and physical action, brains don’t like it. Whether you’re designing interfaces or instructional materials, you can’t afford to ignore the research on this.”
Related: Richard Restak’s The Naked Brain: How the Emerging […]

Usability in the Movies (Jakob Nielsen) — “User interfaces in film are more exciting than they are realistic, and heroes have far too easy a time using foreign systems.”
I love movies so I thought that this article was fun.

Jakob Nielsen should be removed from the galaxy — “There is no correlation between having a UCD team and producing good stuff. Some UCD teams produce garbage; some companies manage very well without.”
What do you think?

Anatomy of a Successful Social Network — “Usability should always be prioritized over revenues. When a user chooses to spend 20 minutes of their life on your website, they could be spending that time anywhere else, but they chose your site. Don’t reward their loyalty with spam.”

Proof that the search for “great search” isn’t over just yet — “So, there’s no question in my mind that, if you can focus more of your information workers’ time on competitive productivity, you should have an easier time achieving your business’ goals.”
 

Flash, AJAX, Usability, and SEO — “Get with the program, developers and marketers. Don’t assume your target audience wants an enhanced experience, not even advanced Web users. Analyze your target audience’s search behavior. Don’t skip SEO’s usability aspect.”
Nothing too special in this article. It offers the typical introduction to usability and why it is a […]

Do You Suffer from Familiarity Blindness? (John S. Rhodes writing for Apogee) — “The more important something is in some domain, such as usability, the more likely that you will neglect to tell others about it once you master it.”
This is a fun little article I wrote on an old topic.
Read it now…

Tag Cloud in Chinese websites — “Tag cloud displays tags in a website which emphasize some of the tags by showing them with larger font sizes, and/or in darker colors. Moreover, tags in a tag cloud are usually arranged in alphabetical order. Tag cloud seems to work in the English world as a means of […]

Your Usability Quote of the Day — “Rich Internet Applications are like the passionate, interesting Scottie on Star Trek but the web browser is Spock; technologically sound but devoid of feeling.”

Interesting rant about Rich Internet Applications (i.e., Flash and Ajax).

Bush Administration Doesn’t Favor New Money Design — “An effort to force a redesign of the nation’s currency so paper money could be more easily used by the blind would be too expensive and could cause undue hardships on the vending machine industry, the Bush administration says.”
The redesign amounts to changing the size of currency […]

Simplicity — “I think it is a misattribution to say, for example, that the iPod is successful because it lacks features. If you start to believe that, you’ll believe, among other things, that you should take out features to increase your product’s success.”

No offense, but few people are savvy enough to even begin talking about […]