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ReCAPTCHA's audio test is impossible to solve(90percentofeverything.com)
1 points by harrybr 14y ago|0 comments
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User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important.(90percentofeverything.com)
2 points by harrybr 14y ago|0 comments
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Usenet – what have you become?(90percentofeverything.com)
129 points by harrybr 14y ago|116 comments
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by harrybr 14y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that books, articles and conferences are totally insufficient to become a good (UI/UX/User centred/etc) designer. Here's an analogy with physical fitness. If you want to reach "competition level" f
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by harrybr 14y ago
Article author here. It's true that Apple's App Store design encourages users to vent into reviews because it does not provide a straightforward way to contact the developers or raise a support ticket. This is bad and it really needs fixing
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by harrybr 14y ago
The first version of this site was published in October 2010.
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by harrybr 14y ago
Article author here. This raises the question of whether we should be facilitating usability testing sessions on our own designs. Generally it's something I try to avoid unless the situation demands it. It takes a lot of discipline to facil
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From Print to iPad: Designing a Reading Experience(90percentofeverything.com)
6 points by harrybr 14y ago|3 comments
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Apple’s Newsstand unsubscription process is a joke(90percentofeverything.com)
2 points by harrybr 15y ago|0 comments
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An Introduction to Web Intents(90percentofeverything.com)
5 points by harrybr 15y ago|0 comments
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by harrybr 15y ago
Omitting these details turns it into "a fun discussion". Including these details (even as a footnote) would turn it into a potentially useful piece of research.
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by harrybr 15y ago
A great example of the wrong way to report user research. - How many participants were tested? - Who was tested? - What kind of test was it? Survey? Lab study? etc? - Between subjects or within (i.e. did the same people see all the ic
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by harrybr 15y ago
They tested 120 songs found on myspace. One of them later turned out to be a hit, so the researcher went back to his data to see if there was a correlation. Correlation does not imply causation. As it happens, there was a correlation. But w
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by harrybr 15y ago
This "phantom profile" concept already has a name. It's called "lazy registration".
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by harrybr 15y ago
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing you're about 18-20 years old and you've never had a job outside of your freelancing activities. If this is the case, getting some agency experience could be useful to you, both in terms of your CV and
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by harrybr 15y ago
A business owner might approve of this design, since they will probably get slightly fewer unsubscribes. However, many users will find this mildly annoying. You wouldn't add an extra step in the sign up process, so out of respect you shoul
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by harrybr 16y ago
You're right that it's a gaping hole in the article, but it's not hypocritical. All web projects involve people from different disciplines working together. My background, for example, is in Psychology and User Research. People in my role c
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by harrybr 16y ago
The article states that Animoto use "honeypot fields and timestamp analysis" instead of CAPTCHAs, which they claim has been effective to date. What do you think of this?
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CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates(90percentofeverything.com)
185 points by harrybr 16y ago|115 comments
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by harrybr 16y ago
I'm surprised Wordpress haven't built caching into the platform yet. wp super cache will fix your problem, though.
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by harrybr 16y ago
Exactly. There's obviously a difference between Google actively suggesting a term that could encourage piracy, versus providing the results for people who already have that query in their mind and choose to submit it as a search.
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by harrybr 16y ago
I cannot take any site seriously that uses Kontera or any other "on-hover to trigger, click tiny close button to dismiss" in-text advertising (as used in the article posted). Does anyone actually disagree that this is a horrible way to mone
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by harrybr 16y ago
If you buy a car, it comes with seat belts. Safety is not optional - it's built in. If you buy a computer, safety of your data is seen as a luxury add-on, like leather seats. It's crazy when you think about it.
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by harrybr 16y ago
People have been suggesting this design is some sort of mistake. I don't think so: 1. Email notifications have a very high value for Quora - they drive users back to the site. 2. A fair number of users unsubscribe by clicking the "unsubscr
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by harrybr 16y ago
I don't think the facebook case studies in the article are against AB testing per se, but more against the fact that AB testing is often used to focus on minutae. It seems to be a psychological temptation to use it to focus on minutiae, r
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by harrybr 16y ago
Some lazy registration systems capture email addresses without forcing the user to create a password. That's what ours does. http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2009/03/16/signup-forms... [edit] We have an email alert feature on our job
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by harrybr 16y ago
The standard name for this design pattern is Lazy Registration . I admit Progressive Signup is probably a better label as it is more descriptive, but lazy registration is what people have been calling it for some years now... http://w
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by harrybr 16y ago
Haha, fair point! I'm the droning Englishman giving the presentation. If you'd rather read than listen, check out the http://darkpatterns.org - it's a public wiki that I curate. Here's the definition of Dark Patterns from the site: "Dark
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by harrybr 16y ago
Daniel, I'm sure the Dark Patterns Wiki community ( http://darkpatterns.org ) would love to read the details of the $10 recurring charge pattern you mentioned. So far there have been a few very satisfying examples where companies have respo
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How Dark Patterns can improve your conversion rates but damage your brand.(90percentofeverything.com)
46 points by harrybr 16y ago|23 comments

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