A Slight Change of Direction

A loooong time ago, me and two friends (Joel Laumans and Rogier Bikker) started a blog called notusable. On it, we reported on usability stuff. We got some hits, reached the frontpage of digg (back when digg was still relevant). notusable sort of died and soon it will be removed from the Rotterdam University servers.

All three of us went on to blog a little on our own, with Joel currently running being involved in creating inspiration and Rogier blogging about his experiences in Shanghai.

Back then, we blogged about things that were supposedly not usable, as the title of the blog might suggest. When I started writing here three years ago, the theme was also the same. Over the years though, the direction of writing here as changed a little. Having had some success with two ebooks (Wireframing using Indesign and Introduction to Good Usability), I felt the pressure of writing longer, more researched posts. However, I now think that perhaps the original format, of short posts about real life usability experiences, good and bad, might be a better suited on a blog, especially since your IQ drops about 10 points when multitasking online.

Because of this, I hope to change the direction of my blog slightly, upping the frequency of posting and focusing more on interesting usability examples found in the real world and online. I can’t promise anything, but I will give it a shot.