Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 18, 2009
The short answer for this blog is: -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg); writing-mode: tb-rl; I’ve been working on a very interesting project and one of the desired feature is a fancy tag cloud with variations in color, size, and text alignment. Tricks with color like depth or text sizes are pretty straightforward; however, the vertical & [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 13, 2009
The video clip above is “piano stairs” which is a super fun design with raging success. This design successfully increased the percentage of people taking stairs instead of elevator by an astonishing 66%! Frankly speaking I hope San Francisco or my company can have a piano stairs. Now I would like to discuss on the [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 10, 2009
Recently SmashingMagazine has a delightful and interesting post, “10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines” which compiles valuable usability findings and illustrates with screenshots. I would like to tip my hat to the author and I have something to add to this article. The 10 usability findings and guidelines are 1 Form Labels Work Best Above [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● September 24, 2009
Our team is working very hard on redesigning our website, and I really would like to spend some time discussing this project here. We are following a typical user-centered design process. Interviewing stakeholders, conducting contextual inquiries, translating business needs into tech spec, aligning business objective with user goals & technical constraints and doing competitive analysis [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● August 25, 2009
Super excited. I was working in Asus this summer as an interaction designer contractor, primarily being responsible for eee tablet pc and laptop touch screen app design. The app and the tablet pc have been both featured and blogged on famous tech site engadget. Engadget Media Link 1 Engadget Media Link 2 The experience was [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● July 31, 2009
This post has some amount of technical discussion. Our team received a problem reporting that user tends to quit before clicking the final confirmation while using an online reservation system. We looked into the system, analyzed the whole reservation process and got several findings. * Unclear action items * Lack of user’s status in the [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● July 10, 2009
Now that I’ve received my master degree in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Michigan, working happily as a user experience people, I would like to share some of my thoughts of my alma mater, precious moments of my study in School of Information and I’ll be very glad that this short post can be of [...]