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User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s still undervalued and under-invested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board. Better to iterate a hundred times to get the right feature right than to add a hundred more. The point of Ajax is that it can make a site more responsive, not that it’s sexy. Tags can make things easier to find and classify, but maybe not in your application. The point of an API is so developers can add value for users, not to impress the geeks.

nikf:

Pixar Short “Lifted” - as seen prior to Ratatouille.

The UI designer of that panel is definitely not a genius! ;-)

(this post was reblogged from nikf)

Stop setting the focus on the search field

When your website’s content is so long that you expect most of your users will have to scroll to read/see the whole page and you have a search field (or other textfield) on that page, please stop setting the focus on that.
It’s just annoying when you read an article and can’t use the keyboard to scroll without having to click on some ‘non-clickable’ area first.
In 99% I do not want to search for anything on your site! I just want to read that article.

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

(via Gruber)

Why do some people seriously think, this is a good idea?

This mouse also reminded me of a great graphic by Eric Burke:

Simplicity

I like that you can type ‘me’ in the text field when adding yourself to a photo on Flickr, using their new People in Photos feature.

I like that you can type ‘me’ in the text field when adding yourself to a photo on Flickr, using their new People in Photos feature.