Why Oh Why So Much Bad UI? But herein lies the rub, testing shows, people don’t love it Right? Well, you might or you might not. Too often, sites pick up a technique just because another site uses it, thinking awesome, that’s cool for me, too!
A new Google Search UI has been spotted in the wild and features a distinctly tablet-based look. Google is constantly testing and tweaking, so while catching a peek at one of their experiments is interesting, it doesn’t mean a change is imminent.
If you can get over the sketchy UI and the mustard / ketchup color scheme, you’ll fall in love with the no-muss no-fuss convenience of LetterCount.com. Search and contextual ad writing (when not working in ads UI)
Volunia Power User Feedback Driving New UI and Features One of the chief complaints of early users is the UI. Marchiori told us that three weeks ago, Volunia overhauled their user testing and feedback system so people could post new issues, with...
Liveside.net spotted a new Bing UI that seems to have rolled out to more users in the U.S. Bing has been busy testing and rolling out new designs for both their search engine results pages and local search listings.
Each of the five tools selected for in-depth testing has the ability to set up and define a query through the UI; to manually validate data; and to export raw data. Digital marketing agency Web Liquid has released a comprehensive report that pits...
Beyond the new UI, a new organization scheme has been added for suggestions. Additionally, the app will no longer crash on loading the stream in iOS 5.0 (the version of Apple's mobile OS that's currently in beta testing).
One other interesting characteristic of this real-time notifications feature is that new types of Facebook 'stories' were appearing, which made new uses of standard actions within the Ui. Meanwhile, Facebook's UI does not easily show off all of the...
Apparently in light of Google's announcement of their social Google+ project, Google is rolling out a new user interface (UI) for its standard search product. The UI appears to be modeled after the new Google Profile design.
The fixed position UI change is being paired with another experimental update, known previously as "Happening Now" and currently being tested under the name "Most Recent. Facebook is now testing a design that implements a "Most Recent" news stream...
The options previously listed here have either been removed or displaced to a less intrusive UI element. One of those "less intrusive UI elements" is all new: a top bar that appears directly below the search bar.
But Blender suffers from a notably confusing UI(it's supposedly been improved somewhat recently), and those unfamiliar with 3d modeling can easily find it too difficult to pick up, let alone master, on one's own.
IE9 Bugs With Microsoft adCenter Forums - Search Engine Roundtable adCenter UI Experiencing Latency and Intermittent Errors - adCenter Blog Facebook Testing Web Search Box by Frank Watson In-App Billing on Android Market: Ready for Testing...
Google Maps UI Changes by Thom Craver Google began testing this new layout for general and brand terms in Google AdWords that showed "Related to [search term]" last June, and it seems it has rolled out more broadly in the last few days.
The Google AdWords team, who are celebrating 10 years of AdWords, sent this hilarious video out to advertisers yesterday in 43 different languages - the same number that the AdWords UI works in. Google Testing Ads Below Gmail Messages - Search...
Though the SL viewer 2 is unpopular, it will be many months before a third party viewer is able to successfully strip the code and shove it into a viewer 1 UI. Recently it seems that Linden Lab has recognized that this is a problem, and has begun...
Google Voice UX/UI Designer Quits For Startup Milo - Silicon Alley Insider Testing a Richer Yahoo! Making Social Search Work Today by Ryan DeShazer Get ahead of the curve with social search by using the tools and data available to you to identify...
Other third party viewers are going to have to take a long hard look at the pros and cons of 2.0 code, if not the 2.0 UI (I am told that the Phoenix Viewer team is officially holding the same stance as Imprudence.
It's designed to make search "faster than the speed of type" yet in effect the UI change restricts what is actually possible. If suggestions stop being shortcuts, or become continual distractions, it may be sudden death for the streaming results UI.
These tools are fairly intuitive, but without the right manager in tow, the solution may be passed up for the engine UI. These incremental changes need to provide end-user scale (i.e.live ad management for Google), as much as they do the legit...
