Wordpress 2.7 is now available, but some people are reluctant to upgrade.  I wanted to outline some steps to make your upgrade go as smoothly as possible!

Polaroid announced earlier this year that they would no longer be manufacturing instant photography cameras or film.  Their announcement, at the time, felt like a step in the right direction for the company.  They would, after all have enough stock to sell through the majority of 2009.  The market for polaroid cameras as most of us knew them has almost vanished given the affordability and ubiquity of low cost digital cameras.

In the first part of my very elementary overview of one way to build User Interfaces we walked through conceiving our UI so that it would be an economical way for users to interact with your web application.  In this part I’ll talk a bit about how users fit into you UI by way of my favorite Nielsen-ism.

Users who visit your site are also users who visit other sites.

I enjoy Trip Advisor for my vacation and travel planning research.  The information is typically easy to access and even though the design can be very busy at times there is just a ton of great user feedback on the site.

While planning a trip to Nags Head though I came upon the following interaction and it drove me nuts!

One of the questions I get asked and think about a lot is: How do you design a User Interface?

I think it’s a strange question because devoid of context there really isn’t any response to that question that isn’t another question.  User Interface has a strange history, particularly when we’re talking about the internet, because far more falls into the UI category than most people would imagine.