Mobup 0.2 out on Monday

Posted on 28/01/2006 by admin

We’ll deliver on Monday the newsest version of Mobup, the 0.2

We’ve nearly reprogrammed the whole application in order to maximize compatibility on Nokia s60 devices which should be now fully supported(our beta testers team is now working on granularly verifying it).

While rewriting the code we’ve also spent some time optimizing it and the resulted code is now less then 38KB in size. Yes madam the whole moup application won’t eat your device internal memory while managing

Photo shooting
Title, descriptions and tags
Lazy user (c) tagging system (Mobup will download the 10 most popular tags from your Flickr account) post the photo in your Flickr sets
Publish the whole thing on your own blog

We’ve also blown away messsages screen and have them substitute with faster and “AJAX style” on screen messaging system.

Hope you’ll spend some time giving it a try.

Lift06. Program available.

Posted on 26/01/2006 by admin

The LIFT06 program (PDF file) is out. Done. Finished. Nearly printed. Wow.

I’d say that starting a new year with a talk in a conference that features Matt Jones, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling and Robert Scoble all in the same place is going to be a little bit overwhelming. And exciting.
My slides are nearly ready, still fine tuning the speech and having a lot of help and encouragement by my friend Dirk. Planning to be able to astound during my ten minute talk. Hope so, at least

In the meanwhile the Mobup thing is really exploding, a lot of buzz in the mobile news sites yesterday and the day before. Hope to be able to develop a more stable (and broadly compatible!) version soon! (If you like we have open positions for J2ME open source programmers available).

Eyetracking analysis on forms usability

Posted on 24/01/2006 by admin

My newest UXmatters article is out: in this one I present findings from eyetracking tests we did to evaluate the best solutions for label placement in search forms.

Just a couple of notes befor you jump in and read the whole article (with a LOT of images):

Form labelling is more important than you usually think
The more compact the form, the better
Never use drop-down lists in search forms, if you can avoid it

We tested a bunch of interesting sistes such as Google, Amazon, eBay, Flickr and useit (Jakob Nielsen’s site). I really hope our findingds could be of any help to you guys out there.