One of the original books I picked up and got me into web usability research, Don’t Make Me Think is a classic and should be on every budding UX’s, bedside table, whether researcher, designer or coder.
Krug’s friendly and approachable style make this book quick and easy reading, though by no means content free. He (more…)
New to the world of graphics tablets as I am, I couldn’t help noticing a big fuss around the new NoteSlate device by… erm NoteSlate. Wired, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo are just a few of the big names currently raving about this fabled product, with Wireless Goodness labelling it as the ‘the $100, single-color tablet that will replace our legal pad forever’. Quite a big claim for something no one’s as yet even seen for real let alone a couple of Mr Blurrycams.
For those of you who don’t know… (more…)
There haven’t been many books in my life that have totally changed the way I have thought, or made me sit up and revaluate my circumstances. If there were, I’d be an incredibly lucky individual. So it was a great pleasure to chance upon Alain de Botton‘s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Packed full of interviews with people in all sorts of jobs in various spots around the world, from Tuna fishermen in the Maldives to biscuit marketing executives at United (more…)
The launch of the iPad last week saw Google’s mad scrum to get it’s book site up to date with a brand new interface design finally embracing Google’s usual sense of great usability, something Google Books previously sorely lacked. A set of several cover flow scroll throughs of categories and genres with reading suggestions now meets you on the first page and improved My Library tools.
Funny thing is, I’m still discovering new things about the site. In fact I’ve only just discovered that you…