Yahoo and Oddpost

Slightly old news, but here are a couple of links that looks into the added interest RIAs have developed as a result of this news:

• Why Yahoo! bought Oddpost - on Loosely Coupled
• On rich web applications, AlphaBlox and Oddpost - on Koranteng's Toli

Card Sorting: How Many Users to Test

According to Jakob Nielsen:
“Testing ever-more users in card sorting has diminishing returns, but you should still use three times more participants than you would in traditional usability tests.”

So Nielsen's reccomendation is to have 15 users for Card Sorting tests. Sounds quite reasonable...

User interfaces: The next generation

According to this article:

“Keyboards and mice will face competition from motion-sensing, gesture recognition and haptic technologies.”

Input devices have driven the user interfaces have developed over the years, so yes the next generation of UIs will have to be driven by the next generation of Input and Display technologies.

Handling new features

Jason Fried on feature management:

1. Come up with the concept.


2. Say no.


3. Force the feature to prove its value.


4. If “no” again, end here. If “yes,” continue…


5. Sketch the screen(s)/UI.


6. Design the screen(s)/UI.


7. Code it.


8. Test, tweak, test, tweak, test, tweak, test, tweak…


9. Check to see if help text needs to be modified.


10. Update the product tour (if necessary).


11. Update the marketing copy (if necessary).


12. Update the terms of service (if necessary).


13. Check to see if any promises were broken.


14. Check to see if pricing structure is affected.


15. Launch.


16. Hold breath.

How I wish my product team thought like this...

Anybody from the Mac user community interested in a Project Management Software?

At Digité We're conducting a small survey to determine the feasibility of porting our Project Management software to the Mac platform. The Mac Observer seems to have picked the link to our survey... It would be great if any Mac user reading this post can help us by taking the survey...