Some reflections on Finn.no new homepage and icons
Finn.no has released a new homepage, a big change in Finn’s otherwise “stealth” redesign process. As I like to follow what happens on Finn.no, I am offering some reflections on this new Homepage design.
POS and smart cards: new usability headaches
A new dimension is opening up in the POS usability world: the new “smart card readers” are spreading, so that now the most recent POS machines both allow to swipe (to read the magnetic strip) and to insert (to read the smart chip). As predictable, no consistency: you can insert at the bottom fo the [...]
Google Chrome: some preliminary thoughts
AH! Google’s browser - Chrome - is out - while waiting for the linux version, I downloaded a copy on the Win XP test machine, to see what is the fuzz all about. And of course I had to share some preliminary thoughts on the news of the month.
Why is ordering real estate prospects on finn.no so difficult?
Summer is roundabout over here in Norway, schools have started again, the birch woods show their first yellow leaves and I am back using finn.no. And I realized one thing that has bothered me for a long while. I am a registered user, and, as I mentioned, I use finn.no very often. Yet…..
NRKbeta: at a glance
NRKbeta’s facebook group has just passed the 1000 fans landmark, so I decided to take a look. What is it? What do they do? What do they write about? I was faced by the following screens, HP above the fold, and HP after first page-down. At a glance? Disturbing….
Of course, I must mention a couple [...]
Where’s the content? A crude real estate allocation comparison of six leading norwegian news sites
I have done a crude comparison of the same six leading news sites HPs as in the previous post, to show visually how much real estate is allocated to news content on each of them. This is shown by dimming out everything that is not news content, and so advertising, headers, logos, menus etc.: Take [...]
Six norwegian news websites homepages: a visual comparison
This post is more about the visual attached than anything else. I have many opinions on norwegian news websites: I am used to Italian newspapers, where the “tabloid factor” is not so important, and politics dominate the content (well, someone may argue that italian politics IS entertainment suited for tabloids….but that’s another story…..).
Let’s give the [...]
Which kind of design does the web talk about?
I got a bit curious the other day, and decided to check what of the “usability” and “user experience” skills and expertise profiles were more popular. The curiosity is the fruit of a certain widespread confusion as to what kind of design skills are needed when in a development project. Many times I found that [...]