Firefox for mobile
June 11th, 2008
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
“User experience is the most important aspect of having a compelling mobile product.”
Designing for 1024×768
May 8th, 2008
An article I’ve written on designing websites to work effectively at 1024×768 screen resolution is published in this month’s .Net magazine and on bbctraining.com (which also includes sample template files to download): Designing sites for 1024×768
Zoomability
March 22nd, 2008
The importance of images in product description pages has been well documented.
A high quality pic can turn a browser into a customer. As broadband’s become the norm in the western world, online shops have been getting more adventurous with their use of images.
Combined some well written code, product pages are now giving the user the facility to closely inspect an item before buying. Great from the customer and the shop perspective.
Magneto product page has a nice image zoomer and Habitat’s product page has a very tidy mouseover inspection. Probably soon to become the norm across the web. In contrast, the mouseover action on the category home pages of Habitat leave me reeling! (Fail harder?)
The bigger online stores are lagging a bit behind in this respect. The ebay interface is still pretty clunky, Amazon’s product page is hugely cluttered.