jmulder

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Hear hear. Without deviantArt and the incredible support of the community I would have never gotten into product design.

Also, hi

But that's not the point. The point is to have easy to understand cues for the receiver on how important the message is, with the sole goal not to disturb them for messages that do not require immediate attention.

A phone call can always be followed by a confirmation e-mail explaining it again for archiving purposes, but it is incredibly selfish of a sender to assume that the receiver will immediately read and act on the e-mail he receives. Most of us just get too many e-mails to assume every e-mail is important -- it's usually the complete opposite anyway.

I assume because the concept of those messages and the 'undo' action they contain match. The message is a confirmation of sending and the action is to undo sending. Having read the message once and learn about it allows you to dismiss it in future interactions.

Moving this message of 'did you forget an attachment?' to that same message would result in a mixed and unpredictable result -- unpredictable because you didn't know you forgot about the attachment. You expect a confirmation message, dismiss it (meaning you don't even look at it), but instead the attachment message might have been shown there. You wouldn't have known.

I'd like to see them test this in The Netherlands, where, especially here in Amsterdam, it's quite normal for bike thiefs (or junkies) to steal a bike in seconds and sell them for 15 euro just minutes later.

Success of this device depends on the reaction speed of the owner or other Cricket users being quicker than the thief can steal it. Good challenge, but my money is on the thief ;-)

I'd be interested, sure! :-)

I started noticing this at home the other day and I quite like it. It allows me to short-cut key directly back to the search box. It will take some getting used to, sure.

Very useful! Thank you ver much! Although I'd like to add one suggestion and that is to surpress an 'echo' on successful navigation. I'd see my path twice right underneath of eachother, which just clutters up the screen.

I'm one of the designers at funda (largest Dutch real estate listing site) -- though on the Personalisation team and not the Search or Presentation teams.

This is definitely a beautiful and useful visualisation and something we've been thinking about for a while too. We've found that in an average real estate search people very much appreciate information about the neighbourhoods they come across when finding relevant properties. The thing I love about this is -- like some others pointed out already about Rotterdam -- is that it tells a genuine story about a neighbourhoods history in a way a real estate agent wouldn't be able too.

In the US there's Trulia Hindsight built by Stamen Design which includes animation: http://hindsight.trulia.com

I've been using Feedly with Reeder for iPhone. In terms of design I think Feedly is one of the better options, but they should really spend more time on making their UI a whole lot more responsive. I've always felt one of Google Reader's great tricks was its asynchronous UI which really gave it that speedy feeling.

In normal Scrum terms this is what they call a retrospective, right? A sprint review is one where you present the resulting potentially shippable product to stakeholders.

People claiming the author should have just 'unsubscribed' are missing the point of trust. The author didn't just want these e-mails, he actually lost trust that Weebly was capable of sending informative e-mails at all.

This is a huge loss for Weebly, as they'll never reach the author again by e-mail, even if they were giving away a million dollar.

All in all, in Weebly's case, the e-mails are just spam. They do not have any function other than screaming for attention. Might work for 'growth hacking', but doubt it will do them any good in the long run.

List view. Keeps my horizontal eye movement to a minimum.

She really doesn't trust Yahoo's own management, does she?

Wouldn't be surprised if she was right and Yahoo's current management is indeed mediocre at best, in which case all these 'weird' things she's doing might not be weird after all.

I'll start with the criticism, because that's what you want, but all in all I think you have a good start here. :-)

My main point of feedback would be: why would I want to meet the 'right' people in my neighbourhood? What is 'right' anyway?

It is a question you answer further down the page, but I just barely got to that point. The design mostly focuses on how you try to solve a problem when to me as a visitor I don't even know the problem I'm having.

Furthermore, I am not entirely sure what you want me to do here. I think you want me to sign-up for an invite, but the call to action to do that is down below and not clearly visible.

The "Say YO!" button near the bottom of the page looks like an illustration due to the previous content blocks and I wouldn't have expected it to be the desired call to action. Perhaps even rephrase it to just say "Request an invite" and drop the "Have ideas?" part as that just gives someone another reason not to spend 30 seconds and not to complete the process.

Add a call to action to the lightbox showing the video. Else you're asking me to close the lightbox first and then look for whatever you're trying me to do.

I would reorganize the left hand side navigation as I think it greatly takes the attention away from the main pitch.

Remove the poll. Surely number of sign-ups is a good indication of people thinking your service is going to be useful?

Remove the cat and the text below it. Nobody is going to read that.

Hope that helps a bit. Good luck!

I'm really curious to know why they decided to place the content on the new Timeline on the right, instead of on the left. First instinct would say that the profile information and who their friends are would fit better on the right hand side with the content on the left.

Anyone care to guess?

He's not really proposing Instagram to go in this direction at all. He's just using their UI as an example of how one could do commerce for mobile devices.

But using Instagram as an example is a bit too far fetched. Instagram didn't grow because of their browsing UI, but because of their publishing UI and its end result.

Folders or tags are hard in the sense that both of them require a user to think about organisation, when in reality any of them just wants to find the file 'magically' where they last left it and do stuff with it. In most cases this is in some application or (in my opinion still a temporary stop gap) a one level deep file system.

The applications itself will serve the needed context or metadata (type of document, last modified time, access/sharing privileges) to find the files you're looking for.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Funda is looking for a full-time User Experience Designer and Front-end Developer. Both positions will be in our current User Experience team, where we already have three designers.

Especially for the front-end developer we are looking for someone to head our front-end code, take responsibility and take the quality of the code to the next level. Feeling for interaction design would be an added bonus, as part of your time you'll be working along with our designers.

All design (3 people) and development (12 developers) is done in-house. The company itself counts about 50-55 employees.

More information: www.funda.nl/vacatures (Dutch)

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Funda Real Estate B.V. is the company behind the leading real estate listing website of The Netherlands: funda.nl. We also maintain fundainbusiness.nl for commercial properties, fundalandelijk.nl for agricultural properties, and fundadesk.nl as a back office for Dutch real estate agents.

Just for funda.nl we currently average 420,000 unique visits a day, serving about 10 million page views a day. It sure is a challenge with big impact -- working at funda always gives you something to talk about at birthday parties.

I read all headlines that make it to the frontpage, which according to Google Reader is about 100 per day (never use Mark all as read). I actually only completely read 4 to 5 articles per day, again, according to Google Reader.

Continue to be a part of a great team building a great product.

It's cheesy, sure, but it's very important to me. I love my job and see a great future for the company I work at. However, I can only continue committing 100% if I work with great people doing great things.

As such, my goals for 2011 will be encouraging an even better ambiance within our company, encouraging creativity and encouraging to constantly improve.

PS. Another personal goal is to build a foundation for the future for the cricket team I play in (2nds at VRA Cricket, Amsterdam). We won the league last year, but failed to promote in the play-offs.

Good to see some cricket love here. :-)

(Dutch cricket player in the Amsterdam area)

The Root still exists? That's just crazy. I remember first visiting that place back in the days I was still active at deviantART as well, which must have been like 8 years ago now.

Don't think my account is still there though... ;-)

There have been a couple of other posts about people wanting to organise one in either Amsterdam or Utrecht.

I live in the Amsterdam area and work near Amstel Station in Amsterdam, so I'm good to go to Amsterdam or Utrecht.

PS. Anyone happen to be going to the UX Cocktail Hour on May 31st or The Web and Beyond conference on June 1st?

Very nice. I enjoy I seeing a fellow Dutchman doing something different. Sure, there are some improvements you could do design wise, but don't worry, just keep on going and you'll figure it out eventually. :-)

Doing primarily CSS, HTML or Javascript in my editor, my requirements are less about code navigation and more about just being quick and simple.

On OSX I use TextMate, but on Windows I use Intype -- www.intype.info

Intype is a very, very useful text editor similar to TextMate in that it supports three key points:

1. Bundles / snippets 2. Intelligent selections and editing (multiple, rectangle, etc.) 3. Fuzzy search in quick open

Anyone using TextMate knows how important bundles are to one's work flow.

By far the biggest downside of Intype is its pace of development. It's incredibly slow and right now the best version they have is an 'unstable' release: http://intype.info/download/download.php?intype-0.3.1.734.ex...

It's still a very basic editor. As such, they're looking really good project management tools, file watching (refresh on external changes), integration with source control systems, etc.

They have been working on 0.3.5 for such a long time and I doubt we'll see a release of it before the end of the year. Nonetheless, the upsides outdo the downsides by far for me personally.

Regular use: - FaviconizeTab (reduces a tab's width to just its favicon) - Tab Mix Plus (better tab management and session management) - Google Reader Watcher - oldbar (single line design in the URL bar) - Menu Editor (ability to remove all unnecessary options from my context menu and others) - Screen Grab (fast saving/copying of screenshots)

Development: - Firebug - Page Speed - YSlow

I have been a customer of ServerBeach (http://www.serverbeach.com/) since their early days back in 2002 I believe. Always been good and their support has been top notch, both in times of software and hardware issues -- I once had a HDD go berserk on me.

I am however slowly moving to a smaller and cheaper Linode plan, but that's only because I don't need the bigger stuff anymore.

I'm on a 24" monitor at 1920x1200. However, I never ever maximize my windows, especially not my browser.

The latter is because as an interface designer I want my viewport to always be the width of whatever a user has at a maximized window on a 1024x768 resolution, as this is currently our lowest significant resolution used on the website. Also, I feel it's a nice width for consuming content on the internet.

A hit in efficiency of the user when scanning the search results.

And you're right. People won't leave Google over this. But Google has done extensive testing on page speed in the past and measured its long term impact on pageviews per search. I'd argue that a change in scanning patterns like this one affects the perception of speed of the interface and might impact the aforementioned metric.

Overall, it should be a change for the better and i'm sure that Google wants to increase the efficiency per search to increase the overal number of unique searches a user might do -- while caring a bit less about the number of pageviews per search.

As for Bing, in interface design for a company like Google --a company that effectively dominates the market and sees marginal loss of users-- the competition is irrelevant. Especially for simple UI changes such as this one.

When doing a change such as this one Google is its own competitor. It needs to find a way to transition their user's habits to what they believe is a more usable one. This is by far always the hardest part and really what we are discussing right now :-)

It's awesome to see though. I'd imagine it's incredbily hard to convince a board of such changes, especially in an engineering minded company such as Google.