December 2010
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Dec 8th
Google Maps & Label Readability (reblog)
41latitude: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors? For months, I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites. To me, Google’s labels seem to “pop” much more than the other sites’ labels. Major cities also seem to stand out much more. [1] And whenever you’re...
Dec 3rd
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A/B Testings
A/B testings are the big hype right now. A top well known Silicon Valley investor a few days ago put A/B Testing firm Optimizely on the cusp of his startup watch. Today I read that the Huffington Post is A/B testing their headlines and it is almost presented as the most disruptive journalist practice ever. I’m happy that something related to user experience is getting so much attention...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
Progressive interaction (draft)
This post is about a way of designing interfaces that I have been teaching and practicing for some years now but I’ve never formalized in any support. So after years of collecting examples and discussing about it, here I am trying to clarify my mind. This post will be a draft until I get to the exact point. I’m not even sure of the name of the thing… What’s...
Dec 1st