Posted by: Wenbo in: ● July 5, 2011
Nerdy conversation: Me: Hey Tim, Google+ is released Tim, current fb employee: Yeah? Me: Unless you buy me a burger tonight or I am saying goodbye to fb for good. Tim: That’s serious threat! Wait a second, I believe G+ needs a better name to fully convert you. Me: What’s that name? Tim: G++ Me: [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● March 20, 2010
Yesterday all of a sudden I had a crave for Asian dessert “Mochi” and I decided to make some. I was digging into my memory and was looking for recipes online, trying to find a perfect recipe. I noticed most recipes are “step by step” format and in some cases the recipe can be incredibly [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● February 21, 2010
One image, that’s it. Requires no technical background. Have fun!
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● January 23, 2010
As promised, the topic this time is survey design, and as usual, I’m sharing a project that I am working on. Rules of thumb – Speak users’ language, be concise but not ambiguous – It never hurts to do one more dry run. – Response rate: 20%-40% for target email invitations, 10%-15% for web popup [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● December 20, 2009
Last week I’ve just discussed about the iphone sales figure in China, hoping to dig into the real cause for everything. This week we have fresh Korea iphone sales report. via web 2.0 Asia. According to the post, iPhone turned out to be the best selling phone in Korea in the week of November 30, [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● December 13, 2009
Apple’s invincible iphone reached 100,000 units of sales in Mainland China, 40 days after the official debut. via iphone blog A friend of mine wrote an analysis of the unsatisfactory sales figure in Chinese, providing several possible answers. Late entry into China Market No wifi due to Chinese cell network policy Ridiculously high price Not [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 27, 2009
Do you remember every time you forgot to save something and tried to quit some application, an alertbox popped out abruptly with a loud “bang” saying “you haven’t finished saving, are you sure you want to quit?” This is an excellent error-proof mechanism but in some cases, we can improve it with a subtler alert, [...]
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 [...]