Tag: usability
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The Twitter settings update as a lesson in web usability
Twitter went a bit potty today over a change made to the services settings. Yesterday, Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, blogged the change saying, “Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow… however, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to…
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A step backwards? New service makes it hard to e-mail people
Usability is all about making things easy to use. That’s common sense though, right? Maybe not. I came across a new service today called Scr.im. It’s (very noble) aim is to help prevent spammers getting hold of your e-mail address by scraping it off of web sites (such as forums) where you might have reason…
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Reasons to use Twitter: Real life user experience feedback
This is the first of (hopefully) many posts highlighting ways in which businesses can use Twitter. I’ll be trying to use examples whereever possible. First: Real-life user experience feedback. Frustration at Google AdSense led @tonypiper to tweet, Adsense has got very confusing recently. A great opportunity for the AdSense team at Google to get instant…
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Yahoo!’s Delicious Fails at Usability
Not completely, but enough for me to blog about it. When making changes to your site infrastructure or architecture, it’s important to consider links coming into your site. For example, I may want to change the URL structure for my blog posts, to include the year and month in which they were posted. This post’s…