Jeff pointed me to geekstyle, a british t-shirt company featuring shirt with slogans such as "I got £80million in venture capital for my .com idea and all I have left is this lousy t-shirt" and "Memes don't exist. Tell your friends."
Now I know what I want for xmas...
Bill sent me a link that took me to an advertising site that blew my mind away: Eyeblaster - A Framework for out-of-banner advertising
Some samples of their ads that must be seen to be believed: be sure to wait a few seconds for everything to load and you'll understand.
Marnie sent me this survey
and it's interesting for two reasons: how many people are surfing at 56k and below, and how much more broadband folks surf. It's that wacky old 80-20 rule again... your most valuable customer may be broadband and huge downloads may be acceptable for some sites. Once again we are reminded that "the rules" are different for each site. Sadly, unlike OS or browser, your log files can't help you here....
feel free to argue, of course.
Matt Jones writes
"check this out... my take on it, FWIW..."
it's worth quite a bit, actually....
Mike Farley sent me his User-centered design methodology that he advocated at lucent. Lots to pull from here.
I'm also exploring UCD methods put together by software developers. pretty interesting stuff.
one more "me" link: we all have to fight popups at one point or another-- if you've got ammunition, please share.
My sister send me some sites that participated in the blog-a-thon
"Bloggerlist is a list of all the
participants. Then there's davezilla
Dad liked this one
This is the one that did website reviews"
Of course she participated also...
one more thing.. to make this process more streamlined (i.e. easier for me) I'm considering moving to html mail. I'd like to know if this will make anyone's life hell....
Sean Smith wrote and asked me for ammunition against pop-up ads. The article "Pop-up Internet Ads: More Eyeballs - and More Frowns" and a a good thread on CHI-WEB was all I could track down. I'd like to ask EH readers to submit anything they know as well (for all you know he's working on *your* favorite site)
My own experience in recent testing was that all users closed pop-ups as quickly as possible as soon as they showed up. Yes, all. It was amazing; they could often close them before the contents even loaded. However, the staistics from that same site showed that popups had the highest click through rate of any ad. One HCI friend suggested that it might be people simply missing the x-close button and accidently clicking through....
I did find this interesting article on popup killing software, but no data on how often its used.