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Sounds about true.

"Readers and conference participants know that the more I write and talk about web standards, the more I point out that they really don’t exist. Step back with me for a moment: we wouldn’t need a web standards movement if there were standards! We continue to do the very best work we can to arrive at a standard of quality and professionalism. Sadly, however, despite a decade or more of web standards evangelism, we face the prospect of losing whatever influence we’ve gained these past years." I love Molly.

When you think of typos, you think of grammar and poor middle school grades. It’s hard to imagine that in this day and age a typo of any serious consequence can make it through the cracks, with spell-check being an automatic feature in most email services and office software. However, some typos in recent years have made it into the news, albeit sometimes under unusual circumstances.

Information spaces that are primarily social (community sites) rather than informational are often treated radically differently from traditional information retrieval spaces (like newspapers), but many of the best practices for creating a social space can (and should) be reapplied to more traditional.

For the fourth year running, the survey revealed that nearly nine out of 10 (87%) consumers conducting transactions online have experienced problems. When online issues occur, there is an immediate business impact. For example, if they experienced an online transaction issue, 41% of online adults who experience problems conducting online transactions would simply switch to an online or offline competitor or abandon a transaction entirely. This represents a $57 billion potential impact to revenue on shopping sites alone – a huge opportunity for companies to harness, by ensuring their websites work. On the Web, the competition is just a click away.

An easy way to copy-paste those strange characters. Like a heart.

If there still is someone not getting the ROI of UX, this is a must read.

The five second test is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces. Note: it measures effectiveness, not usability.

"We are only at the beginning of the social network wars. Eventually, every company will have to work with the winning social network firm or firms, just as almost all companies work with Yahoo! and Google.The social network firms have superior access to talent, polling, research, and create a platform for the most targeted advertising on the net with messages aimed at the exact the demographic, title, and industry the advertiser wants to reach. So, are you using the power of these social networks, or is your company stuck in the pre-network world of Microsoft?"

On siellä pari muutakin tekstivaihtoehtoa.

Obsessable covers the latest in the world of technology, including cell phones, cameras, and HDTVs – obsessively, of course. Do I hear "ka-ching"??

"Now it's true that, unlike translations, many of the guidelines aimed at one group don't get in the way of other users. But what would we do if we designed pages just for one group of users. GMail and other sites have taken vague steps in this direction. At a very brief glance I can see Standard, Standard+Chat, Basic HTML and Mobile versions. What would GMail for screen readers look like?"

"Let's have a 'This doesn't work!' button in as much software as possible, labelled in large, friendly letters and placed where the user can always see it through the tears and red mist. When the user presses it, the software sends back a trace of what parts of the user interface had been involved up to that point. And that's it."

In design, methods may come in handy – but only if you know what you are doing.

This is the most understandable pie chart ever.

"Today even our cellphones have more computing power and graphics capability than those first Palms. In part, I think the relative lack of constraints on our cellphone designers have led them to become sloppy with their design choices, leading to products that are harder, less efficient, and more confusing to use. The designers are not doing their editorial duties. How many clicks, for example, does it take to edit an address book entry on your cellphone?"

The future is in Web services that do not require users to change their behavior by, say, adopting a new service or transferring all their friends’ contacts from one service to another.