Walking barefoot over a cobblestone path is possible, and no step in particular will injure your feet. But the overall experience isn’t nice. It’s the same when a website has minor usability problems piling up: none of the issues taken on its own is disastrous at all, but taken together,…

When Google launched Gmail in 2004 many people wondered why it doesn't have folders. Gmail let you organize your messages using labels, which act like virtual folders: you can place a message in more than one folder.Every computer user understands the concept of folder:"In computing, a…

Google yesterday announced they’ll be rolling out a new look for their social network Orkut. It’s only being shown to a small portion of users right now. I can’t see it, for instance, but others now posted their screenshots, like the one below by Info-Mundo.net (Creative Commons…

Jerff Atwood has a blog post entitled Google's Number One UI Mistake where he writes Google's user interface minimalism is admirable. But there's one part of their homepage UI, downloaded millions of times per day, that leaves me scratching my head: Does anyone actually use the "I'm…

Amióta a webes szolgáltatások kerültek előtérbe a weboldalakkal szemben, valahogy a felhasználói élmény is felértékelődött - a grafikai megjelenítés mellett - és sokan próbálják magukat beleásni, hogy mitől is jön létre, hogyan tartható fenn, de legfőképpen hogyan lehet…

Interesting blog post by MySpace co-founder and president Tom Anderson this morning. He’s proposing a new default layout for MySpace pages that has significantly better organization of user information, and moves from a two column to three column approach.So we’ve been working on a new…

Valami gond van mostanában a Google felhasználói felületek tervezőivel, talán a fejlődés áldozataivá váltak.A video.google.com videó lejátszó oldala még finomabban fogalmazva sem lett jól sikerült darab, a kapcsolódó videók külön frame-be tuszkolása úgy borítja meg az oldal…