Friday, February 28, 2014

How do you navigate on the web and in real life?

Braillesign found at an exit on a train in Sweden
In real life, braille signs are not necessarily readable by seeing people. Why is it so? And how do blind people know to where to find the signs? How do they know when they not should look for a sign?

Measuring user experience

This is a reference list, but also an overview of resarch that concerns methods and perspectives for understanding user engagement. It is created by the reseracher Mounia Palmas at Yahoo.

I haven't gone through it yet...  but it may include some delighters.


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Because - who is perfect?

Everyone is perfect. 

http://blog.petflow.com/this-is-so-touching-everyone-should-watch-this-at-least-once/

What is your default behaviur?

What you set a certain function as default, this is likely to increase a certain behaviour - for good or bad.  For example double page printing as a default setting have shown to support organisations to save lots of money. Induviduals may have money automatically transferred to a savingsaccount each month, supporting them to save as default.  Default setting are functions that makes a certain behaviour more likely.

Wikipedia writes about this as the default effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_effect_%28psychology%29