I'm Abdelrahman Osama a user experience consultant, maybe the first in the Middle East to jump to the standards and utilize it in designing better user experience, here is where I blog about UX, Web standards & best practices.
Really interactive websites
Living web sites that grow, develop and evolve to suit the taste of the people that read them are now finding their way on to the internet.
Roger Highfield - Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
According to the article scientists at Creative Synthesis are evolving a software that tracks the behavior of a visitor and what attracts him and what's not to improve the site experience for each visitor, by every refresh of a page features changed.
This is an awesome new technology that can enhance user experiences very much, can you imagine, tracking a visitor day by day, see what he uses the most what's not, and focus on what he needs the most, The more you use the site the more it gets to know you and adapt more to your needs.
Once the blog went live, control of the design was out of their hands.
Roger Highfield - Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
That is really awesome, I didn't see real application of that yet but if it is applied nicely, it will be a revolution in user experience, I mean by applied nicely not to surprise the user by every refresh with different navigation position, links switched, headers or links colors changed, etc....
The transition should be done gradually so the user adapt to it smoothly, I guess people at Creative Synthesis are smart enough to already know what I'm saying, and I hope we see an application of this technology out in the wild, see how far will it get.
April 18, 2008 Design , Experiments , User experience , inspiration Comments 0 TrackBack 0
Martian Headsets (web standards war)
I just finished reading Martian Headsets by Joel Spolsky, explaining what is standards in general and why things may get wrong in the way like it happens to the web standards.
A war between Idealists
& realists
running on Mars, who will win?
March 18, 2008 Web standards Comments 0 TrackBack 0
WaSP Street Team
WaSP has just announced the Street Team what a great idea, letting every one make his mark in supporting the standards.
There first project is great, its objective is to move old books that contains old, harmful information about the web from the libraries shelves to the archives, go on make your mark.
And don't forget to add there button to your site. linking to http://streetteam.webstandards.org.
March 11, 2008 Community , Events , Web standards Comments 0 TrackBack 0
Focus on details
A little secret I just discovered, "focus on details" bosses / clients don't understand sketches or mockups.
That's all for today, C U soon.
February 20, 2008 CSS , Design , business Comments 0 TrackBack 0
cssedit
Just found this cool app through Mac Tricks And Tips: Top 100 Essential Mac Applications it's cssedit, it's really superior in editing CSS, giving you the pleasure of watching the results at real time, you can click on any of the objects of the page and inspect which CSS rules are ruling it and start editing it through the code or by playing with the visual controls at the side, I think it's browser is running on safari engine, I hope it only have the ability to show you the real time results on more than one browser side by side at the same time.
Give it a try you will not regret it, the application costs $29.95 but you can try it for free, you will not be able to save files with more than 2500 characters, sorry windows users this app is for macs only.
February 6, 2008 Design , tools Comments 0 TrackBack 0
Egypt & India Disconnected
Read the news, Egypt and India has disconnected from the world wide web, I'm one of Abdelrahman's friends posting this from Saudi Arabia, only the messenger is working but no browsing out there in Egypt, Abdelrahman send me this post through the messenger.
Abdelrahman send the whole web greetings from the disconnected part of the world and hoping to see you soon after some body plug the cable.
Update (30/1/2008): Abdelrahman can see some sites, but most of the sites are not working out there.
Update (31/1/2008): Hello it's me, I can access the net now, maybe they did any temporary solution, or maybe it's only because I'm accessing the net from office, yesterday I was trying to access from home, the news here and there about the problem.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
January 30, 2008 Web in the Middle East Comments 0 TrackBack 0
