Archive for the 'User Experience' Category

Ask.com Local is pretty cool. Who knew?

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I’m taking a break from my usual criticisms tonight and actually complimenting someone. Ask.com of all Il компютриonline casino è anche fair play. companies. I must be coming down with something.
Specifically, I was impressed by Ask Local, or Ask City as they call it. Head over there and check it [...]

Why everyone should use Tag Clouds

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

There are lots of ways to help people navigate a website. My all-time favorite has to be the “tag cloud.”
If you’re not familiar with the tag cloud, it is a navigation tool that has gained prevalence with Web 2.0 and the abundance of user-generated content sites. Many of these sites realize that people [...]

When computers try to do too much

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

You may have seen my previous post about Yedda’s interest-matching engine. Well, Yedda’s at it again, and this time they seem to think that I’m an expert of some sort on Toilet Paper Rolls.

This is an example of computer software trying to be too smart. Computers, no matter how smart they get, will [...]