Gadgetopia

At what point does a usability flaw become unethical? If a usability flaw continues to cause people to do something undesirable to them but very desirable to you and you know this and don t change your interface at what point do you become a massive tool? I m left ...

Shelfari: Invitations and updates: From the official Shelfari blog, posted yesterday. We ve seen the recent emergence of complaints about Shelfari s invitations feature, and it s quite distressing. [ ] It s been about five months since we last touched our invitation design. In June we looked at a number of different designs with ...

Shelfari is a social networking app built around books. You connect to other people based on the books you re both reading. It s been pretty cool until tonight. Here is my email to their Feedback address. I let you into my Gmail address book to find people I know that might also ...

A few new developments in the Shelfari saga Josh Hug, the CEO of Shelfari, posted a comment on my last post, he had this to say: This is Josh the CEO of Shelfari. I look forward to seeing your reviews of our future designs. I am sorry we have ...

I found this comment from Josh Hug in another blog post. We actually just pushed an major update to our invitation system last night. Our small team has been slammed just trying to keep our site running recently. I apologize for not pushing the team to address usability complaints about ...