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Acute search?
UX Pond is a newly launched search engine dedicated to UX-related content.
Is the concept of closed or “acute” search a progressive approach or one that belongs in the past?
Before the world of the search engine, the approach to making content findable was to apply the directory model. This was the basis of search within portals [...]
The key to knowledge discovery
The web is full of knowledge. More so now than ever before. And it’s only going to get bigger.
That’s largely why, unsatisfied with the common search engine as a discovery tool, community driven bookmarking tools have become the preferred discovery tool for web users.
Sites such as Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Stumbleupon and more provide a [...]
Lost in Translation
Two things happened to me this morning. Firstly, the family home we`re staying at in Hokkaido, Japan was shaken by an earthquake that caused the TV to wobble. Secondly, I encountered a pretty major usability flaw with Google Translate.
Working from a Japanese PC, with Japanese language settings, is a challenge. A lot of sites I use frequently back [...]
Top 5 Fresh UX WordPress Themes
In 2009 the trend towards building tight, simple, highly usable interfaces continued with sites such as Spotify and Aardvark showing how it’s done best.
Aardvark is a search engine designed to answer those questions that require immediate human thought rather than archived knowledge.
The interface is dominated by the search tool and supported by a 3-step introduction to the service [...]
How to set up a commercial blog without compromising usability
They say write about what you know. So, having just setup UX-Press I can share a few tips on what made it really easy and cheap without having to rely on a high level of expert knowledge.
The focus of this article is on the technical/business steps that you’ll need to take, but here are 5 [...]
Google Wave: How to launch a new product
Google are no strangers to launching new products. Since going public in 2004 they’ve launched more than 10 major new web tools, many of them requiring users to edge ever so slightly away from their understanding of how the web should work.
Wave is a perfect example of a product launch that requires users to rethink [...]
