Thoughts

Here’s a great patent application from Apple. I love this time of year when you start to get glimpses of their future products.

cxpartners is recruiting again. We’re looking for really solid user experience professionals with strong design skills.

We’ve had an amazing week this week, here’s what we’ve been up to and a chance to say thank you!

Yay! We’ve got our own testing facility in Bristol. Well we’ve had it for a while but too busy using it to remember to tell anyone.

Colour coding is one of those old chestnuts. It sounds like it ought to make things ‘easier to use’. In most cases it isn’t worth the effort.

But waiting for a delayed train at Paddington Station I sat down at Yo Sushi, where colour coding works.

We think next year is going to see an explosion in mobile internet use (thanks to cheaper tariffs and better handsets). But why wait? If you want to experience mobile web browsing for yourself, then download Opera Mini 4 (beta) - here’s why.

Earnest Hemmingway wrote ‘There’s no friend as loyal as a book’ which made me wonder which books had served me best in the world of usability. Here are my favourites - hopefully you’ll find a gem in this list of old friends.

Getting customers from look to buy is about building trust and desire. Over the years, we’ve spent hours watching and talking to users as they browse and buy.

We’ve picked our top five recommendations that we think can improve any eCommerce website.

I’ve been asked to look at some very complex sites recently.

These are sites where many different users try to complete many different tasks in many different ways. That adds up to… many (cubed).

Other people it seems use PowerPoint in as creative a way as we do.