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http://www.vdllabs.com A laboratory of experiences: tests, critiques, musings, politics Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:14:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/08/28/finnno-homepage-from-reflection-to-action/ 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. Firstly, let's look at the core element of the new Homepage: the category "tree (borrowing the screenshot ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/08/28/some-reflections-on-finnno-new-homepage-and-icons/ E6 is one of the main motorways in Norway, connecting the country from South to North, from Oslo (at least) all the way to the northermost tip. Norway is a very rich country, with larger budget surplus, a rather "fat" oil fund and prospects of increasing wealth. Yet E6 is ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/08/15/the-user-experience-of-driving-on-e6-when-it-rains/ Adbusters run this article in early June about a New York City direct action organized by Public Ad Campaign with the aim or re-taking over public visual space used up by (illegal) corporate advertising: [...] dozens of New York artists and activists battled the clutter of consumerism in a guerrilla-style billboard ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/07/30/re-taking-over-public-space-through-design/ I had been itching for *a* design for vdlLabs ever since the website went live. I have finally gotten around to begin with a design project. It will be an incremental endeavor, so we'll see how far I will get. While being off the web (been too busy to write meaningful ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/07/29/new-design-and-twitter-tools/ Ah! It's been a very long time since my last post here. I have plenty of excuses (been way too busy doing real work! Had so much fly fishing to do! My son takes up all my time! My wife doesn't like my spending too much time on the PC!), ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2009/05/27/better-late-than-never-kudos-to-the-guys-at-finnno/ 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 ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2008/12/19/pos-and-smart-cards-new-usability-headaches/ 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 ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2008/09/08/correct-markup-code-do-matter/ 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. While the ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2008/09/05/google-chrome-some-preliminary-thoughts/ 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 ... http://www.vdllabs.com/2008/08/22/why-is-ordering-real-estate-prospects-on-finnno-so-difficult/