Archive for 'User Experience'

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0

Microsoft have finally announced a URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0. I had to use either Apache mod_rewrite or a third party module for IIS. So why is this so great? Well, we can provide the end-user of a web page a friendly URL, which is is the most important thing for me. We can [...]

Deki Wiki as a style guide tool – part 1

In my master thesis I argue that dynamic style guides makes it easier for projects to have a style guide that is used and maintained through a project. I discuss a custom tailored tool, and argue that it is necessary to build a tool that integrates with developer tools such as Eclipse, Visual Studio, Jira [...]

World Usability Day

Today, November 8th, is the World Usability Day! So what is the World Usability Day about? WorldUsabilityDay.org says: “World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.” This years World Usability Day is about Healthcare, and everyone’s affected by the usability [...]

Facebook: A different breed of communication

These days, e-mail is used as a traditional way of communicating with colleagues, businesses, friends and random people. It is used to send out personalĀ and formal letters, information, notifications, commercials etc. E-mail as a tool for communication uses the written letter as a metaphor, however it is way faster than a traditional letter since it [...]

Yggdrasil – Norwegian Usability Conference

This week I went to Lillehammer, Norway to participate at the annual usability conference. One of the keynotes, Luke Wroblewski, gave a very inspiring presentation and workshop. He went through many examples of visual communication and pointed out how various design solutions impact the usability of a web site. Read about Luke’s work here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/ [...]