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10 Feb, 2009

Rhetorical dialog boxes anyone?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

Modal dialogs are something to be very careful around as they break the flow of user interaction and scream at user “Focus! Answer this NOW!”
But what do you think when you get something like this:

Question box?

I imagine it would be too much to build a QA tool that would scan all the dialogs and detect [...]

03 Feb, 2009

Find of the day: Quince: A UX Patterns Explorer

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

Being subscribed to a million of different obscure mailing lists and blogs has some advantages. Every once in a while you grab announcement of a rare gem early. Today I receivend an email about Quince – A UX Patterns Explorer by Infragistics.
It’s a visual representation of some of interface patterns used in interface design field. [...]

27 Jan, 2009

Stepping out of dating and relationship on Facebook

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

I’ve been fascinated with Facebook relationship decisions for a while now. One of the more interesting challenges with this complex term is that it’s not fully transitional. You don’t just go single -> complicated -> dating -> engaged -> married  and the same way back. Sometimes you also want to step out from the whole [...]

24 Jan, 2009

uCertify – Adobe Flash CS3 Ace Exam review

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

uCertify is an online companies that provides different course-ware for different vendor certifications, including Microsoft and Adobe. They’ve sent me a review copy of Adobe Flash CS3 Ace Exam as I wrote in my about box that I’ll gladly write my opinion of things
The basic idea of the product is that if you [...]

16 Jan, 2009

Top 3 Usability (UX) Conferences in 2009

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: conferences|usability

A few people asked what would be my Top 3 recommendations for Usability and Human-Computer Interaction Design conferences to plan for in 2009. I’m looking at this from very Central European centric point of view of course.

Image by Kounelli via Flickr

In no specific order:

UX London, 15th – 17th June 2009, London – Early bird: £895 [...]