I found this article by John Ferrara to be very helpful before I started
working on Search.
http://boxesandarrows.com/view/search-behavior
He's got a couple others on Boxes Arrows worth reading as well.
anne
new-boun...@ixda.org wrote on 12/08/2009 12:48:34 AM:
I have to do a presentation
Part of it depends on what your users want. When I was working on a site
search project, the general range of results people expected were either 10
or 20. More than 20 was overkill, less than 10 didn't give them much
confidence that they'd seen a good snapshot of what was in the results. We
So, um, what's the name of the book?
thanks!
anne
new-boun...@ixda.org wrote on 10/29/2009 06:09:53 AM:
I picked up Roger Martin's new book just as it was released last
week. I am only 65 pages in (about a third) but it is already one of
the most insightful books I have read in recent
Hi Brian!
Here's an article about information being its own reward:
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/why_information_is_its_own_reward_-_same_neurons_signal_thir.php
The way I read it, you might want to let users know that there are rewards
at 25%, 50%, etc. etc. but you might
My first reaction to trying this was wow, awesome! My second reaction was
hey, my favorite password is ugly. I need to change it to something
prettier.
Would be very interested to know if it would somehow be able to generate
more secure passwords as more aesthetically pleasing, thus manipulating
The only example I can think of is e-commerce. I haven't registered for
your site but I put some stuff in a cart, then left to think it over. A few
hours/days later I came back and the stuff was still in the cart. I ran
into this frequently when doing my Christmas shopping last winter, but I'm
not
new-boun...@ixda.org wrote on 05/05/2009 04:39:17 AM:
For a web-based password-protected site with sensitive information, the
user
usually is logged out after a period of inactivity. (In part, this is to
prevent others from seeing/changing the data on their screen, if the user
is
on coffee
I'm working on a project to try to detect a user's connection speed and
ensure that we serve up the better page for their speed. Modem users will
get simpler pages, where high-speed users will get pages with richer
interactions.
We've tried a number of ways to detect the speed (and I don't have
Thanks to everyone who suggested Speakeasy's speed test and the
speedtest.net site... but these solutions appear to tell me-the-user what
the connection speed of my computer is. I'm looking for a script or code
that we-the-developers can put on our pages to detect the speed at which
our users are
