Spotify is right on the spot
November 19th, 2008
I’ve been using the beta web service Spotify for a couple of months now. And I must say that I’m really impressed. I would almost go as far as to say it’s the best piece of software I have ever used.
Archive for the ‘UX’ Category
Shopping for groceries in style
November 5th, 2008
Conchango is developing a shopping system for the British grocery store Tesco. It’s supposed to help customers when buying/ordering food and has a graphically rich interface.
I’m for one hate shopping for groceries. If I could have a system like this that remembers what groceries I normally buy and suggests a shopping list according to [...]
Visualizing the age of content
September 29th, 2008
How do one visualize the age dimension of content?
In the real world it’s not a problem. Physical objects, like paper, clearly wears the mark of time. Paper turns yellow and get torn. Other things get scratched or changes it’s appearance in some other way that makes it obvious that it’s not new.
5 essential books on usability
July 10th, 2008
I’ve compiled a short list of book on usability and UX design that I’ve found both valuable and inspiring. All of these books have given me important insights and helped me to better understand the different aspects of the area.
I’ve listed them in the order I think one should read them and I’ve also [...]
Huge booklist on user experience design
June 17th, 2008
I’ve just ordered a couple of books at Rosenfeld media and while finishing the order I noticed a part of the site called UX Zeitgeist which consists of a huge collection of books and topics on user experience design.
Using microformats to populate Google Map
May 24th, 2008
Inspired by an article I’ve read on 24-ways I’ve built a demo-page for using content marked up with microformats to populate a Google Map.
Unfortunately the demo is in Swedish, but I think those of you who doesn’t speak Swedish can easily understand it anyway.
The main concept is to use a list of folksong festivals in [...]
When software ruins great products
April 12th, 2007
I got a small mp3 player as a gift this Christmas. It’s a Sony Walkman NW-E003 and it’s really good. It has great sound, it’s easy to slip inside your pocket, it has long battery time and is easy to operate. The downside is that the software that comes along with it, SonicStage, is really [...]
