Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies.

I wonder how many of Windows Live Hotmail’s members knows how to delete the temporary Internet files in their browser’s cache.

“What’s ‘cache’, anyways?”, I’m sure thousands of users ask themselves.

Screen shot of Windows Live Hotmail not loading.

Haha! They brought this one on themselves.

(I still remember the e-mails we used to receive at Lingo)

Say, where did they put that “Home” (”Hjem”) button (the image without alt text)?

(www.sandnes-kulturhus.no)

In all fairness, it’s a public site by a cultural institution — which definitively has a limited web budget.
Still, it makes me wonder why they decided to put it at the bottom of the main menu.

If only JavaScript developers would stop using alert() for debugging - at least while in production. Searching for flight tickets on www.berg-hansen.no gave me the following:

The page at http://www.solfaktor.com/ says:
TXL not found.

Now, there’s something every user needs to know.

See also: Web 2.0 Usability.

Recently, we’ve been searching for a new place to live. Apart from the sky-high prices ($350.000 - $400.000 or so for 700-800ft apartments), what has come to annoy me is the lack of functionality on Norway’s leading online marketplace (where we search for apartments to look at in-person). (more…)

The lack of self-awareness and usable solutions, even for large companies or public sectors / -providers, is sometimes astonishing.

We just recently bought our first car. Since it’s quite common that you have to pay toll when driving on Norwegian high (and low) ways, we signed up for a service called AutoPass. Being an AutoPass subscriber, you can pass through all of Norway’s AutoPass toll posts without having to stop (you also get a discount). The alternative is to pay by coins — perhaps multiple times a day.

Signing up on-line wasn’t very easy, though. (more…)