Interesting collection of brushes for Photoshop
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via: Daring Fireball09-11-06 3:46 PM John Gruber
The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke.
Galleries With This Photo on Flickr.
Galleries is a new feature of Flickr and one of my photos has been chosen for a gallery. Fun.
October 31, 2008
Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes
«My paper’s due tomorrow, but my PC won’t print, what do I do now?»
«What do you mean, it won’t print? What happened?»
«Well, I clicked on print, but nothing came out the printer.»
«Did you get an error message?»
«Yeah, I got an error message.»
«Well, what did it say?»
«How should I know?»
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had this conversation multiple times.
Effective User Testing Doesn’t Have To Be Extensive
Jakob Nielsen’s study on the ideal number of test subjects in usability tests found that tests with just five users would reveal about 85% of all problems with your website, whereas 15 users would find pretty much all problems.
Source: Jakob Nielsen’s AlertBox
via 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine.
