plugawy blog

Absolutely amazing.
Original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6jwab3HWk

It's a shame it's not included in the almighty Ribbon

When people say "this sucks" they mean one or more of the following:

• This doesn't do what I need
• I can't figure out how to do what I need
• This is unnecessarily frustrating and complex
• This breaks all the time
• It's so ugly I want to vomit just so I have something prettier to look at
• It doesn't map to my understanding of the universe
• I'm thinking about the tool, instead of my work

This article doesn't suck. If you are a software developer - read it. Now

I'm waiting for the LP. {drool}

Too much glass for me.

The Mobile User Experience Is Miserable

The phrase "mobile usability" is pretty much an oxymoron. It's neither easy nor pleasant to use the Web on mobile devices. Observing user suffering during our sessions reminded us of the very first usability studies we did with traditional websites in 1994. It was that bad.

In our mobile studies, the average success rate was 59%, which is admittedly higher than success rates in the 1990s, but substantially lower than the roughly 80% success rate when testing websites on a regular PC today.

Before the study, we had expected to get better results in London because the UK has a stronger tradition for mobile services than the US. However, the actual sessions didn't bear this out: the British sites were just as bad as the American sites, and users struggled about as much to get things done.

:P~~~~~
Some websites are NSFW not only because of pr0n content.

The Sharp 912SH for Softbank, for example, comes with an LCD screen that swivels 90 degrees, GPS tracking, a bar-code reader, digital TV, credit card functions, video conferencing and a camera and is unlocked by face recognition.

Can your iPhone do that? ;-)