You know when you have one of those real “Oh My God” moments (hat tip Dave Wallace).
These days on the web it’s not very often for me at least. I seem to have seen most of it before in real life or in some other forms on the web. Well maybe I have been living in a cave or something, but the Cooliris browser extension PicLens seems to have stepped up a notch since I last had a look a little over 12 months ago.
Over the last few weeks the armchair communication developers of the world have been solving the woes of the Twitter infrastructure and communication problems. And out of all this advice Plurk has come to light.
Plurk is interesting, it’s primarily focus is a social networking message service, with a true microblogging conversation, video or image sharing on a timeline.
So in a way it’s an extension of Twitter, but a little like Pownce. It allows you to group your friends into cliques and define posts to be personal (one to one), public or just to the members of a clique. bit like the private feed in Twitter.
The colours present in a user interface can be critical for the success or failure of a web site. When told this people will say “what’s the best colour then.” Well there is no clean cut answer to this one. And from a design view point one has to fall back on “it depends”.
You see colour has a profound effect on our emotions, our well being and psychological response. This is supplemented by the tonal nature of the colours as well and the current environment and lighting you are viewing the site in.
The other day I was floored and humbled as I regularly am during a session of usability testing for a site prototype. Up to this point the testing and functionality determination had gone well. Then someone put a massive road block in the way. There it was sticking up out of the ground blocking all findability of the core information on a site. Well maybe it wasn’t that bad, but it did make me think; which is good.
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