April 2010 posts

Your gaming grandma

By Alistair Gray on 29 April 2010

I’ve just been sent a great blog post describing the unexpected behaviour of a segment of smart-phone users - over 55 females. What caught my attention was their use of games:

When it comes to downloading apps on their smart-phones, one in five women stated that their favourite app was a gaming app

Games can … Read more about ‘Your gaming grandma’


2nd leaders’ debate - rating the leaders’ performances

By Abid Warsi on 23 April 2010

Last week I watched the election on my laptop to experience Social TV. The most interesting aspect was seeing how viewers’ ratings of the leaders changed throughout the debate. This week, I looked at the different ways in which websites or TV channels displayed viewers’ ratings to see which worked best.

Guardian’s Reaction tracker

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Monthly user experience finds

By Mru Kodali on 23 April 2010

A month’s gone quick and it’s time for a few more UX finds. This time we have an image theme:

stock.xchng, an image site exclusively for free stock photography - handy if you’re designing on a budget
ExplainIA, a contest on Flickr to explain information architecture in words, images, audio or video (video of winning entry)

That’s all … Read more about ‘Monthly user experience finds’


Webcredible report: Lib Dems have best website

By Trenton Moss on 22 April 2010

With the UK General Election coming up, we decided to investigate the website usability of all 10 UK political parties with parliamentary representation in the House of Commons. Yesterday, we published the report outlining all of our findings, which makes for a really interesting read. We found that the Liberal Democrats were the clear leaders in … Read more about ‘Webcredible report: Lib Dems have best website’


Election leaders debate - a social TV experience

By Abid Warsi on 16 April 2010

Many people in the UK had a social TV experience tonight, watching the leaders debate while also commenting on facebook, twitter and chat rooms. Social TV is slowly getting more popular, especially at big events like this. I had my first social TV experience tonight. I had my laptop open on ITV’s website where there … Read more about ‘Election leaders debate - a social TV experience’