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Thanks to the brains behind today's search algorithms, searching for things we know is incredibly easy. It's what we don't know that is difficult to find.

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The On Demand Books ‘Espresso’ machine, that prints out a fully bound book in minutes, seems much in the news lately.

A usability study, is that like a focus group?

Clients sometimes ask this question when we start talking about doing usability testing on their website or product. The answer is “well sort of, but not really.”

You know those funny, interesting, inspirational, and distracting  links emailed from friends?  StumbleUpon takes this concept to the next level in terms of scale.

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When I’m in meetings or workshops I often have small epiphanies based on what is being discussed, that I write down as memos to self. A few weeks ago, my memo said: “Remember external communications”.

Until recently I hadn't found a particularly compelling reason to use Twitter. Some of my colleagues raved about it but it just didn't interest me. Recently, however, I found a good use for Twitter - recruiting for a user research study.

Should you ditch your favourite search engine and move over to Bing? Probably not - and here is why, from a user experience point of view.

http://wave.google.com/

"I want to follow your witty thoughts ... just join Twitter!"

So nags my friend. They say brevity is the soul of wit. Wit does not often work well without context though. How well does Twitter incorporate context into its brevity-oriented space?

Colour is the worst reason to buy a bike says my local bike seller (we’re talking bicycles here, not motorcycles). I can’t really disagree, it’s true, there are so many other things to consider like fit, comfort, components, style of bike that really colour shouldn’t even appear on the list of requirements.