Tag : users

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Design to inspire confidence

Author: Isaac Pinnock

Part 1 in an occasional series about how digital products and services can learn from real world experiences.

What happens when a new service replaces one that you’re familiar with? A service that you’ve used for as long as you can remember, infrequently but at times of high emotion and potential stress?
 
The new service is intended to be better – speeding up a process by being available anywhere from the palm of your hand. It has the potential to make a moment in life easier, but is the transition from old to new easy or a moment of strife?
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What is a browser?

Author: Tim Malbon

I found this on Mike Laurie’s ace blog the other day – it’s a video put together by Ji Lee, Google’s Creative Director at the Google Creative Sandbox (just launched). The video demonstrates how much real people know about the Web. It’s a salutory reminder for anyone whose job it is to discuss complex ideas with customers and end-users: despite the nodding you shouldn’t assume they understand *anything*.

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