Finn.no homepage: from reflection to action
After having reflected upon the new Finn.no homepage, I have taken a few minutes (literally) to mock up how I would rather imagine Finn.no homepage. I have followed Espen’s suggestions as regards the icons, and a perhaps conservative approach to information structure:
I sure have my own comments to these mocks (won’t show all relevant content [...]
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.
Correct markup code do matter
A while back ago I worked in a company that had IP-phones. Didn’t use it much since we had cellphones, but it had easy access to the weather forcast for all our main offices. Every now and then I would check the office in Brasil, daydreaming, since our office was in Oslo, Norway. And every [...]
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.
Finn.no bits: more on ordering
A short addendum to the post on Finn.no’s ordering criteria puzzle. I wanted to look around at offers in the rental market, and as I reached the list of counties, I found another surprising - for lack of a better word - way of ordering the list.
Technorati fails on login failure
Last night I was going to visit the Technorati site so manage some blogs I have registered over there. It was a first time login with the new laptop, and in the old I had stored the password in Firefox password manager. Hence I tried a password being unsure if it was the correct one.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Finn.no bits: dine funn
Today I want to quickly comment on the “dine funn” (your stored items) function on finn.no. Firstly, I must say it has improved substantially with this new UI and, especially, with some new interaction. In particular, the interaction for deleting and for commenting, which is now Ajax-based, avoids lengthy page reloads, and works much better. [...]
The “click here” nightmare
I am absolutely astonished that there still are so many websites which label links with a resounding “click here”. It is, so far as I can recall, one of the oldest usability rules that a link label should provide users with a clue as to what happens if one clicks: what content one will access, [...]