Scary Browsers (and Super Links) N°5 – 02/03/2010
A simple collection of great stuff I found scavenging the web or simply receiving into my Reader.
I thought I’d pass it along.
So here we are for a new week of Scary Browser (and super links). As usual, Quick and Snappy.
This week we’ll Facebook gets news feed patent (??), Luke Wroblewski gives us a run down of how Firefox was designed, a thesis about Internet Mobiles a great infographic video on the state of the internet, a look at Wired magazine for tablet and more goodies, all after the break.
- Apparently Facebook has been awarded a news feed patent that was seen as possible “social network killer”. Status updates are not included, so Twitter is sa. I’ll go tweet about that now.
- Firefox which world’s number 2 browser (in terms of users and after IE) is being exposed. Through Luke Wroblewski’s report, we get the run down of what it takes to design Firefox by its head designer Alex Faaborg.
A few key points :
- The role of a designer in an open source company is to facilitate ideas rather than be the source.
- Flow: cognitive state people enter when they no longer focus consciously on the means of accomplishing the task they are doing –they just naturally do it. How can the interface fade away in software products?
- The design team deals with all these opinions with this by focusing on core principles to make decisions and giving contributors freedom to explore.
- Anne Kaikkonen thesis “Internet on Mobiles: Evolution of Usability and User Experience” is available (132 pages in PDF). Read the abstract and keep the full thesis close enough. Bookmarked and saved already.
- JESS3 has created a figures-heavy video on the state of the internet. I find it clever and easy to understand. A bit quick sometimes but worth 3 min of your time. I promise.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
- Which side are you on? Line25 is giving a breakdown of today most bloody battle on the webdesign scene with Top 5 Web Design Debates That Cause the Most Riots . So should you open that link in a new window or not?
- Neil Patel of Crazy Egg (yummm heatmaps) tolds us What [he] learned about [us]through 4 redesigns
- Cone Trees gives us an overview of the prototype wired magazine for tablets. It runs on AIR and it’s sexy… Now when is my paper copy arriving through the mail so?? (Also the player has one of the worst set of controls I’ve seen, but I digress)
- Finally some David Bowie/ Ziggy Stardust in depth analysis for the brave (and the not so, a video favorite of mine)
Enjoy and see you soon
lks, after reviewing a bit of my statsand some hard thinking, I think I’ll keep my Scary Browser (and super links) section quick and snappy.I’ll extract the articles I found more interesting and they’ll get a post all for themselves.
