August 2010
2 posts
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Click Happy
Most users on the web are “click happy”: they tend to rapidly click on the most eye-catching action item without paying much attention to the rest of the site.
I see this happen during the usability tests I conduct at Pearson. More often than not, participants end up clicking the first link or “next” button they see whilst missing information that is relevant to the goal...
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Faking it with Fake
I like using You Tube to listen to rare versions of my favourite songs, but I don’t like to constantly have to reload a page if want to listen to anything more than once —gladly, I have found a solution: it’s called Fake.
Fake is a web browser for Mac OS X that allows for easy web automation. It comes from the same creator of one of my favourite Mac applications: Fluid.
The...