Posts Tagged ‘UXD musings’

Google Chrome: some preliminary thoughts

Posted on September 5th, 2008 by by vdl Labs

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?

Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by by vdl Labs

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…..

Where’s the content? A crude real estate allocation comparison of six leading norwegian news sites

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by by vdl Labs

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 [...]

Which kind of design does the web talk about?

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by by vdl Labs

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 [...]