Category: UX

• 18 February 2010

  The problem with breadcrumb trails

  The other day I was chatting with some of the designers at work about secondary navigation and the subject of breadcrumb trails came up. Breadcrumb trails are those bits of navigation summed up by Jakob Nielsen as: a single line of text to show a page’s location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation…
• 17 February 2009

  Linked Data making the web human centric

  The lovable Mr Stephen Fry recently noted [iTunes link] that the challenge isn’t to help people become “computer literate” instead it is to make computers “human literate”. And when you think of the last 25 years, as an industry, we’ve done a pretty good job.  1984 saw Apple launch the Macintosh and with it the world was introduced to the…
• 15 August 2008

  The mobile computing cloud needs OAuth

  As Paul Miller notes Cloud Computing is everywhere – we are pushing more and more data and services into the cloud. Particularly when accessed from mobile devices this creates an incredibly powerful and useful user experience. I love it. The way that I can access all sorts of services from my iPhone means that an…