It’s an ideavirus of epic proportions — lately all I read about in the webdev news is Web 2.0. What it is, what it isn’t, how tired people are of it, whether there’s still money to be made doing it. Web 2.0 loosely defined is a combination of tools (Ajax/Ruby), approaches (social networking, community-created content) [...]
Read moreI use Wikipedia almost daily, but today this dialog box struck a nerve:
Search? Go? What’s the difference? Why would they make such a simple task so confusing, especially on a site that is otherwise very user-friendly?
Curiosity about such things being part of my job, I tried “Searching” for a term (”latte”) versus “Going” for it [...]
Don Norman is sick of hearing people talk about how Google is so simple. The truth about Google’s so-called “simplicity” is that “anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing”. But behind the search page, it’s not so simple after all:
If you want to do one of the many other [...]