Archive for May, 2010
The Nobel Prize For Attention Spans
by Pete Bell
During a foreign crisis in the late 1960s, a government agency found itself starved for information. They reacted by upgrading their intelligence system, replacing their slow teletype machines with the latest technology, high-throughput line printers. The result? When the next crisis hit, they were even more starved for information.
That was one jumping-off point for Herb [...]
Usability Tests Meet A/B Tests
by Pete Bell
One of the FAQs we get about faceted search UIs is about best practices for breadcrumbs. Normally breadcrumbs are trivial, but facets create many paths to the same spot, making it a challenge to show people where they are and where they can go next. The UX team at Endeca uses a solution they call [...]
Cyborg BI
by Paul Sonderegger
Forget about agile BI or self-service BI. Think bigger: Cyborg BI.
In his recent Wired story “The Cyborg Advantage,” Clive Thompson writes about a “freestyle” chess tournament where any kind of entrant was allowed – human, machine or a combination of both. The winner was neither a grandmaster nor a supercomputer. It was a couple of [...]
