Marcel Kornblum
About: I'm a PHP, XHTML and Flash Developer focussed on Interaction Design and User experience. I'm also a total foodie...
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The iPhone 3G - you know the swings, here are some roundabouts
--I've had the new iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks now, and rather than boring everyone with how great it is (it is) and how easy it is to set up (it...
What happens when you force an interface improvement...
--... people rebel!Microsoft Office 2007's 'ribbon' interface was carefully thought out to be more task oriented and allow users access to the featur...
What happens when you force an interface improvement...
--... people rebel!Microsoft Office 2007's 'ribbon' interface was carefully thought out to be more task oriented and allow users access to the featur...
What happens when you force an interface improvement...
--... people rebel!Microsoft Office 2007's 'ribbon' interface was carefully thought out to be more task oriented and allow users access to the featur...
What happens when you force an interface improvement...
--... people rebel!Microsoft Office 2007's 'ribbon' interface was carefully thought out to be more task oriented and allow users access to the featur...
skinterface
--If it's not already called this, it should be. A competition entry (probably a way off due to power and processor problems) involves a flexible, to...
Social Networking goes video?
--So there's a new thing on the social networking scene called LiveVideo.com, which you'll no doubt be hearing about, unless like me social networkin...
Sorry I've been off the radar
--I have recently (around the time of the last post before my hiatus) signed up to go permanent with Glasses Direct - not glamorous perhaps but an in...
wizkid
--Here's a cool new bot I've just seen - WizKid. It's basically a PC with a camera and motor array as an input device. By default it displays a live ...
WOW - I gotta get one
--I can't wait for this to get out the research and into our hands.The Brain-Computer Interface that these guys are working on sounds awesome - just ...
Interesting interview with Tog - Apple's first usability professional
--Another one now working for the Nielsen Norman Group, Bruce Tognazzini was Apple's 66th... oh why don't you just read the post.Interesting post tho...
You Should Always Do User Testing Before Release (yeah yeah...)
--How many times have you heard people on the inside of forward-thinking companies telling you how important it is to do user testing before release ...
transparent touch interface
--oooh - a video at last!Check out the (admittedly early stage) working prototype. It looks pretty clunky at the moment, but it opens a whole new fie...
Hooray!! jQuery UI
--My favourite JavaScript framework, jQuery, has just released a new set of UI tools. They may not be as polished as Scriptaculous, but for the tiny ...
Quick wins for web usability
--Here is a great article on the points to remember when designing a website to be usable. It's more of a checklist than anything else and is a good ...
multimap's new interface
--At last Multimap has joined the fray against Google Maps' wonderful interface.Unsurprisingly it has most of the same features (map / satellite / hy...
SMS and email (well done Yahoo)
--At last a major email provider has integrated SMS and email messages into the same interface. RSS came before, but really there is no reason that t...
Goal Directed Design
--A really interesting interview well worth reading for anyone involved in setting up development of a new interface or system. Kim Goodwin tells UIE...
Multi-touch pseudo-transparent devices
--This article explains how a new research project by Microsoft and Mitsubishi has made a prototype touchscreen device where you can use all digits -...
Artificial Artificial Intelligence
--OK this isn't exactly about usability, and it's also been around a while, but I loved the title.Apparently Amazon are implementing HITS which is a ...
Quick Usability test
--If you're looking to do a quick usability test on a project but don't want to spend months and thousands doing it, you could do a lot worse than t...
Designing for Word of Mouth, and using Progressive Disclosure
--I saw two new technical terms on this blog I was reading by Joshua Porter - Designing for Word of Mouth, and Progressive Disclosure.Both are really...
What happens when you do something right?
--For all the chat the iPhone is getting at the moment I am not going to buy one. I think the interface does a lot right, but at the moment not enoug...
How to make a good website, or, Usability for Developers
--This post is really just an excuse to link to Kim Krause Berg's post here, which is essentially a crash course in User Centred Design.It's great to...
Usability and SEO
--There has been a lot of recent discussion on the web about the relationship between Usability and SEO, centring on an exchange between Usability ex...
When Usability is the answer, and when it isn't
--I've been reading a lot of posts (example) recently about how usability isn't the answer to every money-making venture on the web's every problem.A...
Human verification codes
--I saw my first really interesting human verification code yesterday; instead of the CAPTCHA-style "type in the letters in the image" system, I was ...
is the iPhone the answer?
--Hot on the back of the iPhone release (and all the accompanying fuss), the first usability study of the iPhone interface has been undertaken by Use...
The principles of Usability
--Defining usability is a difficult and sometimes contentious task. Many people understand something slightly different from the term, and I don't fe...
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8tracks - Summering in the City '08
8tracks is a simple, legal way for people to share and discover music through an online mix.
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KeePass Password Safe
KeePass is an open-source password safe. Passwords can be stored in highly-encrypted databases, that can be unlocked with one master password or key file.
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Internet Memes
An interactive view of the all the memes that swept across the internet and burrowed in our zeitgeist. Built from Wikipe
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os x preview eps plugin - Google Search
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Hardening your files with Reed-Solomon codes
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