From Jakob Nielson's Alert Box

Amazon: No Longer the Role Model for E-Commerce Design. [...]

Offensive website alert

Cool idea though: Fuck this website. [...]

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

as declared by Tech Support Alert. [...]

Google vanity ring

Find out when a web page was last updated

Here's a handy way to check the last updated date and time of a web page. Open up the web page you want to check and then type this into the address b [...]

The nation's online wish list

Interesting survey by Directgov which sought to find the most wished-for online services currently unavailable. The top answers were:'No show' truancy [...]

Inferiority complex

Cycling home from work the other day. Perishingly cold. Four blocks of ice, two on the handlebars and two on the pedals. I wanna melt those block [...]

Link dump #68

Birthday Cake Hole

And it was a happy birthday cake hole too.For six months of the year "L" is two years my senior and she doesn't really like it. It reminds her that [...]

Dalliance

Only a single creaking floorboard alerted me to her presence. Equally, she hadn't noticed me very quietly sitting in the corner reading; her attenti [...]

the most hated advertising techniques

Spot-on selection of tips detailing the good and the bad when it comes to advertising techniques on the web: the most hated advertising techniques. [...]

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Tiny spy camera

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10 Best Application UIs of 2008

Maybe a bit too early for a best of anything in 2008 but Jakob has posted a very interesting Alertbox. He focusses on 10 applications (web and desktop [...]

Headset hairdryer

Turntable watch

Guidelines for Visualizing Links

Jacob Nielson has produced guidelines for visualising links in a web page. In summary:Textual links should be colored and underlined to achieve the [...]

Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox declares the top 10 application-design mistakes:Non-standard GUI controlsInconsistencyNo perceived affordanceNo feedbackBad e [...]

Music Alerts

List all your favourite artists and Music Alerts will create a feed for you detailing whenever one of them has a new release. Wow, if it works i [...]

Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings

Jakob Nielsen discusses recent findings from some eyeball tracking research he carried out. He found that people don't look at banner adverts unless t [...]

10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities

Jakob Nielson lists 10 high priority re-design priorities. It's a list of things you should consider if your aim is to increase return on investment w [...]

Screen optimisation

Jakob suggests this:Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024 [...]