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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for the 'Usability' Category

How to Sell your iPhone App

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

So you’ve got an amazing app all ready to be posted to Apple for approval. How do you present it so that people will buy them?
Simple.
Include as many meaningful screenshots as you can.
Show screens which users actually use.
I don’t read the text, to be honest. With so many apps in the App Store, [...]

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When You Need Dial-up

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Having been around for almost as long as the Internet as we know it, the one thing I can be sure of is that the stability of our Internet connection is not something we can count on.
Back when broadband first came about, connection was intermittent and annoyingly slow and unreliable. I remember having 2 [...]

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Find a New Search Engine

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Tired of Google, MSN, Yahoo, and that other new one no one seems to remember, something “cool”, launched by 2 ex-Googlers? Here’s something that will stick. Find.com – catchy and memorable no? I won’t forget this in a hurry.
The most important marketing tool for any website is its name. No matter how great the product, [...]

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After using Flock for several months now, I realised something was awfully wrong. While using Firefox for the past few years, I had taken for granted the Google search engine bar on the top right and used it without a second thought.
Since switching to Flock, the Yahoo search results I got were just not what [...]

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