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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.
Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups

Last weekend, I tried out an iPod touch for the first time - and had one of those (rare) moments when software makes me smile…

One of the things I wanted try was the software keyboard. So I went to Twitter and produced a short tweet.
While typing, I quickly noticed that there’s no dot (.) amongst the visible keys. “Well”, I thought, “they wouldn’t have just forgotten such an important sign!” And: “The most straight forward thing would be to hit ‘Space’ twice for a dot…”
And Boom! There was a dot. Great! :-)

Log in or sign up?

Both! In the same form. I like when people care that much about their UI and UX.

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: Click for high-res photo

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.

ABTests.com is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account. I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s Stop Password Masking: Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. They use two input fields to do this - one of type=”password” and one of type=”text”. They hide/show them according to whether the checkbox it ticked or not: <label for="id_password1">I want my password to be <input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" /> <input type="text" class="" style="display: none;"> </label> <input id="show-password" type="checkbox" class="show-password"> <label for="show-password" id="show-password-label">Show password</label> Do you know of other websites that do this? Click for high-res photo

ABTests.com is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account.

I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s Stop Password Masking:

Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.

They use two input fields to do this - one of type=”password” and one of type=”text”. They hide/show them according to whether the checkbox it ticked or not:

<label for="id_password1">I want my password to be
    <input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" />
    <input type="text" class="" style="display: none;">
</label>
<input id="show-password" type="checkbox" class="show-password">
<label for="show-password" id="show-password-label">Show password</label>

Do you know of other websites that do this?

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What really matters are features and user experience, not the developer technologies used to make them.

John Gruber

Something you should always keep in mind!