Category Archives: user experience

The Extinction of the Scrollbar

By Joshua Lay | Published: March 24, 2012

The Extinction of the Scrollbar by Andrew Turrell However, as the prominence of system scrollbars has reduced, designers need to be more conscious of them, and understand the benefits of scrollbars that are lost when they’re not shown It’s an interesting predicament. Scroll bars have been the main stay indicators of more information and still [...]

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I’m Pirating the Next Version of Windows

By Joshua Lay | Published: January 19, 2012

Justin Cunningham writes what I think a lot of people experience: It takes less time than to buy it, I don’t have to deal with the broken Live login system, and the BitTorrent downloads are faster. I only know this because I had to download an ISO after one of my discs became unreadable, and [...]

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The power of immersion

By Joshua Lay | Published: November 3, 2011

There’s a lot we’ve learnt from gaming in recent times. Innovation with rewarding players with badges, to understanding how to push the user just the right amount in developing their knowledge in an application. I think another great example of creating a great user experience comes from the newly released Uncharted 3. Tweet

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Nokia Says Windows Phone 7 Will Make iOS and Android Outdated

By Joshua Lay | Published: August 11, 2011

Nokia Says Windows Phone 7 Will Make iOS and Android Outdated When you want to contact someone, rather than deciding first whether to launch the Twitter app, the email app, the SMS app, or the Facebook app, you just tap the person and then decide how to reach them. This approach has much less friction, [...]

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Panasonic design – packaging that works

By Joshua Lay | Published: June 19, 2011

I find it hard to believe I’ve never seen something like this has been done before. Tweet

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Do something that doesn’t feel natural

By Joshua Lay | Published: June 9, 2011

Tonight I started martial arts again. There was a key point made. Sometimes you may be doing movements that don’t feel natural Why does this matter?

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Being invasive

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 6, 2011

Today I installed Skype. It has been a long time since I’ve last used it, but I needed it for work. All I can say now is what a bad experience. Firstly the sign up page was not compatible with Chrome. It’s a major browser now so I would think they’d test it! The unfortunate [...]

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