:Web Application Usability

Navneet Nair points to this site which lets you upload an image of a font and tells you the fonts name. Also, they give links to a discussion board if the font is not found and gives a link to the font if it is found.

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“Wherever there’s massive potential disruption, there’s massive business opportunity … that happens wherever you can completely digitize a product — with music, MP3s; with software, Linux; with voice communication, SIP,” says Michael Robertson, MP3.com and Lindows founder on wired.

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“Design optimizes objects and environments for people.” Its all about people. Stupid!

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The Facetmap shows three different html interfaces to surf multiple trees. Columnar, yahoo style, and drop down. It also allows you to create your own facetmap and upload it. RIA’s can help a lot in this area. The only controllers that can be used in html are clicks and dropdown widgets. RIA’s can have sliders, arrange in assending/descending order for different properties, etc.

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Theodore writes, “The purpose of software is to simplify, automate, and save the end user time. The more time a piece of software saves, the more valuable it is.” The post is about flash player update. The current flash implimentation has an autoupdate feature which asks the user if there is a new version. He says, why ask for the users permission to get a low size update of flash player. The user has already given permission to install the player.

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Oliver Steele writes about the development process that went into the making of a small blogroll aggregator to be put in the blog’s gutter. It would be a nice replacement for the blogroll. But I wonder how fast it would be if the server had to fetch around 50-60 feeds. If it was too slow, then it would be better to show 4-5 blogs with next button on the top, like my photos widget. It would be nice if it took the recently updated opml file and produced the view.

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Jordans furniture has a space builder RIA based on Morphics user interface, done by Hookumu. All objects in this interface have standard controllers on their borders. On the desktop, if an application uses a UI paradigm, it is locked into it. There is no place to test new UI concepts except inside labs. For example look at Autocad, the interface was designed decades ago. The command prompt exists even now for backword compatibility. This is good for the users, as they dont have to learn new stuff. But, there is no place where new User Interface concepts could develop. Now, RIA’s will solve this problem. The development cycles are fast and new experiments will be tried out. But, even the RIA UI developers should be careful about taking unnessasary leaps.

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Jim Gasperini experiments with a simple way to present sterioscopic images. Just put the left and right images in a gif. Creates an amazing effect with a simple solution. But you see only earthquakes in the images. There is also a neat flash interface.

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Google’s preferences page is not setup for privacy conscious users. If cookies are disabled, google bluntly says that the feature is not available with out enabling cookies. In order to make the page more usable to privacy conscious users, google can….. [More]

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This flash interface for a quiz simulates a paper prototyping environment. Also, the quiz is about recognizing serial killers vs programmers. If you are in human resources or the police, it is the perfect test for you. 🙂

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