Discussion Archive: August 2010

Font sizers

I've been looking at redesigning some asset level pages (articles, etc) lately. Currently on these articles we have a font size option (small, medium and large). Unfortunately it isn't something I can get any metrics on (nor done any testing) and am wondering if anyone has any experience with the usage of these. 

It seemed like a lot of sites were including these kinds of controls a few years ago, but I'm noticing a lot of new sites (or redesigned sites) left this functionality off. Have people found that this kind of functionality is little used?

Web metrics experts and resources?

I was hoping to get pointers to helpful experts and resources on web metrics analysis, as well as most admired companies who are users/consumers of web metrics. 

Usability problem with Google's birthdate input feature within Contacts

So with the new google mail/contacts revamp, there is a usability issue I found when trying to put in the birthdate for my contacts.
You can read more about it at my blog: http://bit.ly/google-birthdate-input-issue
Thanks,Hemanshu

Usability Engineer / Ph: +91-96861-90892 [new]

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Aiken

iPhone or '!'Phone ?

I'm an avid iPhone user myself and I really love and appreciate the overall experience and the device itself.

But, being so successful, I feel that iPhone surprisingly has numerous undiscoverable UI features. Many of these, unless accidentally discovered, will never be known to a user. Also, many of them are not even listed under iPhone Tips & Tricks also! (I bet more than 90% of iPhone users wouldn't care to read the iPhone User Guides).