Dopsal jsem bakalářku. V textu nazvaném Návrh GUI komunitního webu se zabývám metodami uživatelského výzkumu, technikami návrhu webu a kódováním šablon. Plné znění mé bakalářské práce (PDF, 9 MB) zde dávám k dispozici, přílohy jsou na Flickru.
May 24th, 2010
April 26th, 2010
What Would Jacob Do?
We know what’s under the hood. And we know how to polish the hood.
Pavel Maček and I were giving a short talk at UXCamp.cz last Saturday, 24th April. Delighted to announce the slides we recommend you viewing it via the SlideShare if you want to see the original version of the slides.
Thanks Optimal Workshop for the naming inspiration.
January 3rd, 2010
Visibility of system status
Original post Everyday Usability Heuristics: Visibility Of System Status was published at Usability post. Thanks Dmitry!
Two weeks ago, I was watching my 45-year old father browsing the Internet. Every time I watch him I learn a lesson in usability. I’m sure you know with situations like this one – valuable opportunities to learn from the ordinary users for whom we design.
As he is using Windows XP the very first thing he did was that he ran Firefox clicking an icon on the desktop. No response. Nothing happened so after a few seconds he clicked the icon one more time. With his eyes focused on the Firefox icon he clicked the icon again. Everything he got was three Firefox windows opened. Sounds familiar?
The moment I saw this process I realized how applications are launched at my Mac OS X. Being clicked, the Firefox icon starts jumping in the dock. It’s not just a fancy effect, but a really useful feature. Clicking an icon user gets apparent immediate response. Moreover realize what you do: anytime you want to click an element, your eyes sticks to it. You are not watching the pointer, you just use a mouse and click. The same did my father.
Is a small flickering sand-glass beside the pointer more apparent than a big jumping Firefox icon that user’s eyes are sticked to? Keep this in mind and try to design thoughtful user interfaces. It’s not just about applying the Nielsen’s rules.
Of course it doesn’t matter what, but it also matters how.
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December 24th, 2009
Usage of scrollbars
Working as a HTML/CSS specialist at Pixmac, I’ve done a bit of CSS code magic to enable super-duper-plain-CSS solution for position: fixed in every browser including beloved IE6 (I plan to write all about this later).
We use ClickHeat, a click tracking utility, because we care what our users need. Due to the CSS magic mentioned above, we can see the usage of the scrollbar. It’s quite interesting, that so many people use scrollbar instead of a mouse wheel.
Does it mean that many visitors use a laptop? Or people just are not used to scroll? I’d like to find out.
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