Here’s a quick test I ran using the awesome Sim Daltonism From Left to Right: Normal web browser Protanopia (no red cones, red-green blindness) Deuteranopia (no green cones, red-green blindness) Tritanopia (no blue cones, blue-yellow blindness) Protanomaly (anomalous red cones) Deuteranomaly (anamalous green cones) Tritanomaly (anomalous blue cones) Typical achromatopisia (no cones) Atypical achromatopsia (low [...]
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As GMail has been rolling out changes to their UI, I’ve been interested to see where the mail in GMail actually appears on the screen. Here’s an infographic I made chronicling the changes of GMail’s look over the past few versions. Some major changes in GMail’s UI over the years have been: A 3-tiered priority inbox [...]
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Getting users to use a new feature by showing others who used the feature isn’t a new concept for interfaces. It’s even more powerful when the other users are friends… because it gives an air of legitimacy to the feature. The technique is probably as old as public markets. If your friend buys somewhere and tells you [...]
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I’ve been using Google+ for a few months now. The most striking difference has been the type of content I see posted in contrast to Facebook.
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Went to a filming of the Colbert Report last night, where he interviewed my advisor on my research. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive The best part was probably the ending The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive In case [...]
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What’s better than being part of the Old Boy’s Club? Being part of the New Tech club! I got an invite to Google+ a few hours after they were launched, courtesy of a good friend at the Googleplex. I just spent 15 minutes playing around with the interface, and here are some quick notes: (there’s [...]
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The old iconic Food Pyramid has received a serious upgrade today, the MyPlate. Gone is the notion of a pyramid. Instead, we’re shown a plate, with the food portions on it, in all it’s What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get glory. The USDA’s food pyramid originally started out in 1943 as, ironically, a donut It’s not clear to me if [...]
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I recently read an interesting blog post about what all the buttons, knobs and dials do on an F1 steering wheel. With all the rage about easy-to-use interfaces these days, pics of these “interfaces” look like some sort of photoshop joke. However, they’re very real and very useful to the F1 drivers. F1 Fanatic’s blog [...]
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I was recently spurred by a question on a forum to collect a bunch of tab-based interfaces. Surprisingly, it is hard to to find good examples of modal tab UIs on the internet. I looked a lot a few years ago, and glancing around now, nothing jumps out at me either. This post is going [...]
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We’ve finally released some scenes from the MAV-VUE usability study I performed over December and January. The study went extremely well, with participants almost universally succeeding at the tasks we gave them, after only three minutes of training! Unfortunately, I can’t say anything more until the research is publicly released.
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