Jens Meiert

The Vision of a Latency-Free World

Let us fight latency. Our industry alone certainly knows more than those two popular factors responsible for a lot of wasted time, unpunctuality in general and unnecessarily high load time in specific, but it’s important to always and at all costs avoid wait …

¶ October 1, 2007, filed under User Experience.

7 Additional Ways to Focus on Users

“Smashing Magazine” just published my article on “20 (Alternate) Ways to Focus on Users”, and not only may I point that out but even quickly extend it with a few additional methods. A rash bonus level, so to speak.

¶ September 10, 2007, filed under Usability, User Experience.

Why Timeliness Is Important

Reasons why timeliness or punctuality, respectively, is an important thing.

¶ July 26, 2007, filed under User Experience.

A Plea for Better Software: Provide Auto-Save

Applications do rarely automatically and/or periodically save users’ work and thus fail to prevent unnecessary, frustrating, and expensive work and information losses. Since this isn’t just a but a critical problem, we need to encourage application developers or their “masterminds”, respectively, …

¶ June 25, 2007, filed under Usability, User Experience.

Load Time, the UX Factor: Facts and Measures

Load time of websites seems to stay our industry’s stepchild, but the vision is real-time surfing, not keeping up with bandwidth. There are still some facts and measures to consider when it comes to efficient websites with a certain ease of use. Here are eight, to be exact.

¶ June 21, 2007, filed under Web Development, User Experience.

25 Excellent Usability/UX Articles and Resources

Today I thought I’d share some of the most valuable usability and user experience articles and resources I currently know, in a somewhat wild mix. Since there’s presumably enough to read and talk about later, please welcome some great articles and research papers you hopefully enjoy that …

¶ March 30, 2007, filed under Usability, User Experience.

Photos Make Websites More Credible

One finding of Stanford University’s important work concerning web credibility is that “photos [can] make websites more credible”, and a prior study of B.J. Fogg et al. again revealed that “a photograph of an author had significant effects on how people perceived the credibility […]” …

¶ March 28, 2007, filed under User Experience.

Why I Almost Love DreamHost

No scam. Nonetheless unusual.

¶ March 13, 2007, filed under User Experience.