Category: review
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Initial Impressions Of The iPad
My (long awaited) iPad arrived last Friday, and I’ve had a few days to start my relationship with it. I have the wireless plus 3G version. Here are my initial impressions, from a user experience point of view: Fingerprints, fingerprints, fingerprints — I am beginning to understand the use of fingerprints in forensic science… certainly…
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An Interview With Steve Krug: Everyone should do usability testing
In a previous post I reviewed Steve Krug’s latest book, but recently I had the opportunity to interview Steve about the book. It’s a fun interview, and I think you’ll enjoy hearing Steve talk about: and much much more. The interview is 20 minutes — you can download it from the Neuro Web Design podcast…
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Book Review of Steve Krug's Rocket Surgery Made Easy
I’ve been a fan of Steve Krug’s since his original book, Don’t Make Me Think, came out about a decade ago. (And Steve was kind enough to write an endorsement for my book, Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? when it came out last year). Steve’s new book is all about user testing of…
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Quick Review of Jonah Lehrer's Book How We Decide
Here is a quick video review of one of my favorite psychology books ever written. First the video review and then below I have a text summary of the review. Jonah Lehrer’s book How We Decide is a best seller. It’s a relatively short book, but it is packed full of all the latest science…
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10 Best Posts of 2009
It’s that time of year — so here is my list of the 10 best posts from my blog in 2009. I chose the 10 that I believe have had the greatest impact/most thought provoking/most interest from my readers. #1: Dopamine Makes You Addicted to Seeking Information — I thought this was an interesting post…
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Quick Review of Dan Zarrella's Social Media Marketing Book
I just finished reading Dan Zarrella’s book and it’s good. Small but with lots of info. Here’s a quick video review and then a text summary follows afterwards: In the book Dan Zarrella goes through all the different types of social media and how a business or organization can/should use them. I think it’s geared…
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Recovery.Gov Website — For The Average Citizen?…Not
Have you been wondering where all the “stimulus” money is going that the US government is giving away to get us out of the recession? The US government has a website where you can go to look up anything and everything you want to know about the stimulus money. I’ve created a video podcast review…
