Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Visual Search Tools: NewsMap and Grokker Update Their Tools

An attractive and useful interface. Take a look if you havn't seen it ...

"Grokker maps can be fascinating and extremely useful when you need to wade through search result topics that may require browsing long lists of results.

Grokker-on-the-web provides also good personalization features allowing the end user to quickly pinpoint specific information in a Grokker Map. Multiple filters can be used simultaneously and can be easily switched on and off with immediate reflection on the map being viewed. Filters include date and rank controls (site popularity as ranked by Yahoo!) in the form of easy-to-use sliders.

As the user gets to click any individual search result, a handy small preview of the referred web page is displayed on the right side along with excerpted content from it."   continued ...   (Via Robin Good)

Grokker - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And don't forget, the coolest feature...

Emailin' your Grokker map is one-click action. The notion of shared knowledge is cresting over the horizon here!

7:41 PM  

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