Monthly Archives: May 2010

Aaron Cheang on Disruptive Innovation & Google Wave

Aaron Cheang, Lead User Experience Researcher on Google Wave, had some interesting things to say about Disruptive Innovation at UPA 2010. In a podcast recorded yesterday, Aaron gave some insights about what it was like working on Wave within the Google … Continue reading

Mobile Safari’s misleadingly greyed out “file upload” control

The way Mobile Safari handles <input type="file" /> is something that really winds me up: File upload isn’t possible from Mobile Safari. My beef today isn’t with this fact – it’s with the UI design. To show the ‘choose file’ … Continue reading

“What You Need to Know About Eye Tracking” (new!)

Here are the slides from my recent presentation at UXLX’10 at Lisbon. This is a substantially revised version of the talk I gave at Barcamp Brighton in September ’09. Many, many thanks to Aaron Young & Rebecca Gill of Bunnyfoot … Continue reading

Quick tip: make your own iPhone usability testing sled for £5

iPhones are wonderful things for many reasons, but you can’t run screen-recording or screen-sharing software in the background during research sessions. Even if you could, it would make the device run like treacle and you’d miss out on getting footage … Continue reading