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Posts tagged usability in Jan, 2010

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The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic. A database dump from Netflix, some clever hackery in ArcView GIS, hpricot to scrape Metacritic and a lot of careful thought about the UI for navigating the data.

# 25th January 2010, 1:11 pm / arcview, design, gis, hpricot, infographics, metacritic, netflix, new-york-times, ui, usability, visualisation

Fixing the Google Account problem. 3,000+ words explaining how to open a Google Doc invitation sent to an e-mail address that isn’t associated with your Google account. Worth reading just to get an idea for the enormous complexity involved in running a large scale identity system and designing an interface for managing aliases and multiple profiles. Google haven’t got it right yet—has anyone else?

# 25th January 2010, 11:21 am / accounts, drummondreed, gmail, google, identity, usability

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