All search engines are not the same and all search engines do not return the same results. Ask each of the big four search engines the same question and you’ll get four very different sets of answers. Well duh… But just how different are the results? Different Engines, Different Results, published in April by the good …
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The master has a new book out: “Beautiful Evidence.” There’s an interview with him in New York Magazine. I suggest reading it on-line for the simple pleasure of reading something on a site that makes reading on-line if not pleasurable then at least possible. (Check out text sizer control just above the title.) Thanks to InfoDesign …
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The saga of TV station search wierdness continues. For the last few days I have been doing a bunch of search interface testing on the news sites of our local TV stations. I had a standard list of search subjects that I ran through all the sites. One of which was “motorcycle chase”. (Other searches …
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Some new campers in the cabin this afternoon. xkcd — Sweet, geeky stick figure cartoons. Well, maybe not sweet. Very existential. Very occasional. Very worth waiting for. Joho the Blog — David Weinberger’s intriguing and occasionally maddeningly insights into all things internet and beyond. Modern Mechanix — I just love these reprints from our geeky past. …
In the May issue of UXMatters Pabini Gabriel-Petit writes about how User Experience professionals fit into the overall product development team. (Sharing Ownership of UX) He argues for a product team made up of three disciplines: Product management, user experience, and engineering, all having responsibility for different aspects of the user experience. As he points …
