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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.
Excerpt from: LÚZ GALLERY + WORKSHOPS – BLOG! – The Great Wall.
Intriguing and simple concept.
The Great Wall
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:08PM
“Editing and sequencing have always been important to me in the process of working with photographs. Editing is where you discover your style, and through the process, come to an understanding of what your work as a photographer has to say and what unifies your images.
In my opinion, editing can NOT be done on a computer screen, and MUST be done with prints!
This is for the simple reason that our brains work much faster then even the best computer and as we train our eyes and our minds to look at images, we learn to see relationships between images that only come with the ability to scan a large collection of photographs at once and then move them around quickly.
Regardless of how you capture and image (film or digital), making small work prints really allows you to lay your work out, edit it, move images together or apart, and to see the relationships between images that modify the impact of how a photograph reads. …”
Douglas C-47B Dakota, originally uploaded by jonathanbird.