5.12.2008
from my experience, the single most important variable in web user experience has little to do with the user interface itself, and it’s probably the one thing interaction/interface designers have little control over - it’s the speed.
The web is a hostile development environment. The speed bottleneck of many web applications is either that the server(s) could not handle the load or the limitation of users internet bandwidth. If your web site or application is not responsive to user interactions, has slow loading time or graphic elements load like a teleprompter, then I afraid all the efforts that go into paper prototyping, personas creation, AB testing and other HCI methods will go down the drain as well.
Most of the time, even a slight speed bump may result in major experience improvement. And there are several ways to provide ‘fake’ speed improvement: by constantly updating your users about the state of their interaction. Notify them whenever something has been accomplished, something is about to happen or something is wrong. Communication is the best way to interact, in marriage or designing UI :P.
So remember, work along side your developers to make sure your apps are cheetah-certified.
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5.11.2008
I caught a group of teenagers dancing on the street yesterday. This is one of my favorite street shot so far.
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4.26.2008
and people ask me why I like street photography… :D
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4.24.2008
I could never quite get why my blonde crush, Rachel McAdams dated Ryan Gosling. I mean he sounds like a goose, for one thing. Yeh yeh he’s a good actor, I give him that. But other than that, it’s pretty obvious to me I’m the more attractive one when it comes to miscellaneous details like grooming tummy hairs and the proper manner of crotch scratching in the public.
Having said so, he blew my tummy hairs away in Lars and the real girl. Strangely sweet and amazingly heart warming, I was especially touched when everyone around him is so accommodating with the fact that he’s dating a love sex doll. Everyone is really happy for him, for the right reason or not. Don’t expect that to happen in real life, dreamers.
In the movie, Lars is sick, or is he? Ponder we may with that question, but the doll seems to fix his problem in the end. Mental illness is a peculiar thing. Some of us do normal things throughout our entire life only to end up being abnormal in the end. The transgression of adolescent, college graduation, starting a family to a midlife depression is almost an unescapable and ugly phenomena. At the same time, few of us do abnormal things early on but end up being perfectly normal, whatever that’s supposed to mean, in the end.
Maybe happiness is an overrated delusion.
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