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Once you give users an intuitive graphical user interface, they won't want to go back to anything complicated.
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The Art of Change
Design and development. Including content, product and contact management.
Article: Easy to Use, Hard to Make
I've put together an article that discusses how the usability of a basic, unintuitive form can be hugely improved by thinking like the user. It uses a real example from a web-based application I recently developed.
Make a website intuitive and customers are far more likely to return. In the case of web-based applications and intranets, users will be more productive and will require less training.
Firefox 3 Sets Guinness World Record
Firefox 3 had more than 8 million downloads in the 24 hours of Download Day. After careful review by the Guinness World Record people, it's official! They will be presented with the actual certificate next week in London.
Firefox has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years and the publicity generated by this record should further boost that. Even the BBC has written an article - it's great to see the browser making mainstream news.
Firefox 3 has been downloaded 28.7 million times so far with about 1.2 million of those downloads being from the UK.
Update (10th July 2008):
Mozilla have now been presented with the official Guinness World Record certificate!
Firefox Download Day 2008
The Firefox 3 web browser will be officially released later this month. It will be available in over 45 languages on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
World Record Attempt
Mozilla are setting their sights high by making a Guinness World Record attempt for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Almost a million people have already pledged that they will download Firefox 3 on release day.
If you would like help with this record attempt, please click the graphic above or go to Spread Firefox: Download Day 2008.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1
Firefox 3 has reached release candidate status, which means that it shouldn't be too long before general release.
There are a few add-ons that are not quite ready for Firefox 3 at the moment, including FireBug, an excellent web development tool set. There is a beta version of FireBug that does work with Firefox 3, hopefully the final version will be available soon.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (recommended for testing purposes only).
While on the subject of colour...
Here's a fun article that brought back a few memories:
COLOURlovers: All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts
Yes, as you might expect, it's a list of all 120 Crayola crayons, their names and their approximate hex and RGB colour codes. There are some lovely photographs too.
According to a Yale University study, the scent of Crayola crayons is among the 20 most recognizable to American adults
(Their site is running a little slow at the moment due it it appearing on digg.com, but it's worth the wait!)