Monthly Archives: February 2010

uxurls.com: a user experience aggregator

I’ve just finished setting up uxurls.com – a user experience aggregator. It’s a really simple popurls clone, intended for people who are too busy to set themselves up with their own RSS reader, or just fancy a quick glance at … Continue reading

The email confirmation / paste disabling antipattern

Here’s a nice antipattern from the Odeon (UK), who show us how to annoy 99.9% of users in an effort to help the 0.1% who enter their email addresses incorrectly. So, here I am registering on odeon.co.uk… Oh look, I … Continue reading

Spare a thought for the ‘experimenter effect’ in user research

Do you ever think about the impact of the experimenter effect (or Hawthorne effect) when you’re running face to face user research? Here’s a quick test. First, go and check your Analytics package to see how many users check your … Continue reading