Originally Published on UXmatters.com March 8, 2010 ⇒
Thinking of porting your Web finding experience to iPhone, Android, or Windows Mobile? Just forget about the fact that these devices are basically full-featured computers with tiny screens. Having gone through this design exercise a few times, I have realized that designing a great mobile finding experience [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
Designing Mobile Search: Turning Limitations into Opportunities
Numeric Filters: Issues and Best Practices
Originally published on UXMatters.com February 8, 2010 ⇒
Faceted search has been around for a long time and has become the de facto standard for search on most ecommerce sites. However, filters with numeric values remain among the most confusing, because many sites have not able to design usable numeric filters that people can use in [...]
Research and Design for eBay Customer-Centric Homepage
Client: eBay.com
Product: Customer-Centric Homepage
Problem: Redesign the eBay Homepage to reflect member-specific content and categories of items available on eBay in a flexible, compelling way that meets the needs of a wide variety of international and domestic audiences.
Solution: Partner with eBay members and new customers to understand what kind of information they find useful and compelling. [...]
Improve the Usability of Search-Results Pages: Add Sophisticated but Easy-to-Use Filtering and Sorting Controls
Originally Published in JavaWorld.com, January 23, 2006 ⇒
E.R. Tufte, in his phenomenal book Envisioning Information, states, “Clarity and simplicity are completely opposite of simple-mindedness.” This false simple-mindedness is often evident in the design of a search-results page. Even on some of the leading e-commerce sites, this important page is frequently made hard to use by [...]
Plotting PIA
Cohesive “real-world” guidance to creating, mapping, and deploying .NET Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs). Practical advice on creating PIAs, three alternative methods for .NET solution mapping, and robust ClearCase integration using absolute file path. Published in ASP.NET Pro November 2005 »
Timestamp-Based Caching Framework: Current Data with Peak Performance
Originally Published on JavaWorld.com, January 3, 2005 ⇒
Build a dynamic LRU cache framework using standard Java utility classes
In his timeless masterpiece, The Art of War, Sun Tzu states: “…one who is skilled in warfare principles …takes the enemy’s walled city without attacking… His aim must be to take All-Under-Heaven intact. Therefore, weapons will not be [...]