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Provided by: bokardo.com12010-02-08 18:01:22web and programming / bokardo.com /: A fascinating post by Googler Gavin Doolan: If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign. (This graph) shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of various parts of your website. I love that: “theoretical overview”. In other words, they really [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com22009-11-19 14:24:03web and programming / bokardo.com /: If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it.

Provided by: bokardo.com32009-12-08 12:47:11web and programming / bokardo.com /: As I sit looking at Tweetdeck this morning, scanning over 40 avatars of people I know and don't know, I wonder how much of my interaction is influenced by what a particular avatar looks like. Am I more willing to converse with someone who has a realistic avatar? A smiling avatar? Does the offbeat, non-human, text-based avatar inspire better communication or worse?

Provided by: bokardo.com41970-01-01 00:00:00web and programming / bokardo.com /: Image: http://evavhost.com/i/news/dukenukem.jpg This very early morningA Blog about Social Web Design A quick announcement about a workshop I’m giving in Boston in October on the Usage Lifecycle. The workshop is for designers, design managers, product folks, and other people responsible for web sites who are struggling with creating a great user experience. The workshop will cover, among other things: How to design for the psychology of [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com52010-02-07 16:25:15web and programming / bokardo.com /: I recently posted this quote on the 52weeksofUX site, but I like it so much I’m going to post it here as well: “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com62010-03-24 12:23:34web and programming / bokardo.com /: Curiosity is one of the most underrated phenomena in the world. It’s ironic that people aren’t more curious about curiosity. It’s a powerful thing. For example, if you ever wondered if someone is attracted to you, the answer lies in curiosity. If someone asks personal questions about your past, your plans, your likes and dislikes, [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com72010-04-13 11:55:54web and programming / bokardo.com /: Apple is removing a much-maligned social feature from its iPhone software: Developers will be pleased to learn that Apple has removed a controversial "Rate on Delete" feature from iPhone 4. Starting in iPhone 2.2, when a user deleted an App from their iPhone, the operating system would ask the user to rate a App using [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com82010-06-22 10:45:17web and programming / bokardo.com /: A fascinating read about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which to my observation is enjoying somewhat of a heyday in certain circles. I see reference to it everywhere…well here is an interview with David Dunning, the one who originally thought of it. “There have been many psychological studies that tell us what we see and what we [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com92010-09-03 12:29:03web and programming / bokardo.com /: Browsing through the concept art from Pixar's abandoned film NEWT makes me sad. I had heard nothing about about this project previous to this art. This looks like it would have been adorable! What was the story about? "What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they canA Blog about Social Web Design A quick announcement about a workshop I’m giving in Boston in October on the Usage Lifecycle. The workshop is for designers, design managers, product folks, and other people responsible for web sites who are struggling with creating a great user experience. The workshop will cover, among other things: How to design for the psychology of [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com102010-03-23 10:49:44web and programming / bokardo.com /: James Surowiecki on how companies without a clear focus on either the high end or low end are in trouble. As we move out of mass media (TV) as the primary way people learn about things into a web-driven era, this will probably hold true even more… For Apple, which has enjoyed enormous success in [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com112010-02-09 13:22:35web and programming / bokardo.com /: Since my blog has been broken a lot recently I missed this excellent overview of Five User Experience trends by Gene Smith. I can’t help but agree with all of them: Services as Software – Gene is one of the first people in the UX industry to admit that good enough, fast and cheap tools [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com122010-02-14 11:36:15web and programming / bokardo.com /: Over at Harvard Business Review, Tammy Erickson observes most tweets are not very interesting: Frankly, most people’s tweets are neither interesting nor fun to read — certainly not on a daily or hourly basis. Many, not at all. I say this with no condemnation, since I admit mine are pretty lousy, too. And I have [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com132010-04-15 11:38:19web and programming / bokardo.com /: Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google, is studying what sorts of relationships people have online. His latest piece, Designing for Social Interaction: Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties shows how people mostly use social networks to map their life, not create a whole new online one:

Provided by: bokardo.com142010-04-21 11:00:04web and programming / bokardo.com /: The difference between Facebook’s public commentary on new features and the actual privacy implications of such features could not be more stark. Consider this tidbit from the EFF, Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information, about a change that Facebook made just days ago, on April 19: : “Once upon a time, Facebook could [...]

Provided by: bokardo.com152010-05-05 17:46:45web and programming / bokardo.com /: Mike Davidson rightly points out why iPhone/iPad apps are often better than their web counterparts. It also amuses me when people talk about two things in particular with regard to the iPhone and iPad. First, how much better some companies’ iPhone apps are than their web sites, as if the company is somehow so much [...]