Every useable and efficient application UX needs 3 things :

My inspiration comes from an original Tweet by @communicating:

"To create a useable, efficient mobile application UX you really need to minimize 3 things: 1-Keystrokes, 2-Screen Changes, 3-Hidden Data."

I agree with @communicating, but I will open the concept => every useable and efficient application UX needs to minimize 3 things:

1. Keystrokes,
2. Screen Changes,
3. Hidden Data.

Not only because the trend is now towards "mobile everywhere" but also because the more general trend, you guessed, is : "Keep it easy simple !"

KeepItEasySimple Need4: Why the Web isn’t like a magazine?

"Why the Web isn’t like a magazine? Why going to a new Web page isn’t as easy as just turning a page ? "


That is a new idea from Larry Page (Google's Co-founder) according to Marissa Mayer the vice president of search products and user experience at Google in a video intereview with Charlie Rose.

NOT EASY,
SIMPLE

KeepItEasySimple Solution1: BackLink reader for Twitter

You want to check who is twetting about your URL page even if it is hidden by a URL-shortener service ? Then you need

http://backtweets.com/

It is just a search engine that looks for all links posted on Twitter BUT it reads also the shortened URLs !!

No need to check 1 by 1 all the http://bit.ly, http://ff.im, http://tinyurl.com/ ...

A 4****/5 KeepItEasySimple Solution

KeepItEasySimple Need3: Blogger should insert links codes for me

Any time, I write a full URL address (http://www.afullurladress.com) , Blogger.com should place the correct codes so that the link can be used by viewers instead of asking me to click on the Link button and do the job.

EASY
SIMPLE

KeepItEasySimple Need2: Web app with long urls to provide url-shortening

"Every web app that produces long urls should provide a built-in url-shortening facility"

http://bit.ly/utNQk

from @davewiner post:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/07/solvingTheTinyurlCentraliz.html

EASY
SIMPLE

KeepItEasySimple Need1: URL-shorteners

"I would like my URL-shortener to grab the title of the page I'm linking to and insert it into the typing box, before the shortened URL" instead of doing that myself.


RT@davewiner: A short step in URL-shorteners. http://bit.ly/cWxv

EASY
SIMPLE

User Interface On-line Survey

As a matter of fact, the main interest of this blog will be in User Interface and so let's start by helping a company that is not as known now as the Apples, the Microsofts or the Facebook but that was for the "grown-ups" synonimus of Computers: IBM.

It is just a 10 questions on-line survey on the "Importance of User Interface Design".

Interesting enough, only 6 companies are mentionned in this survey:
Apple, Google, IMB, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP

So let's give a hand to IBM and let's hope they let us know at least the results ;-)