[caption id="attachment_271" align="aligncenter" width="385"] Chrome's icon provides a good example[/caption] 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 ...Read More
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. ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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. Most Facebook posts I read are about the poster and their personal life. They're also ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_198" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Williams F1 Steering Wheel - bisgovuk on Flickr[/caption] 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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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! httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG58zTVjoyY Unfortunately, I can't ...Read More
