The Apple User Experience

posted on October 2, 2008 by miguel usability and accesibility | user experience | branding experience

It's been a while since I switched from an HP to a MacBook Pro to start digging into the iPhone and OSX development. It took me quite an effort to get used to OS X and now I can see there's no point of comparison with Vista, nor good or bad - they are just different things with different purposes. An interesting fact, the MacBook Pro is performing really nice with two partitions and I use BootCamp to boot a Vista partition. Performance is amazing in Vista but energy is less optimized than in Leopard. I love this machine and the unique purpose it serves to me, I would recommend it to anyone. Anyway, not everything is as cool around Apple products as people tend to think; there are lot of issues related to usability, accessibility, design and even development.

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target for external XHTML links from an UX perspective

posted on June 30, 2008 by Miguel blogging | usability and accesibility | web

During the last days I've spend a lot of time make this whole XHTML 1.1 Strict and I found one thing that made me think about the behavior of the Internet web visitors (any site, it doesn't care) and the imposed behavior web creators are trying to design.

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testing XHTML across multiple browsers

posted on June 29, 2008 by Miguel blogging | usability and accesibility

Today I woke up and saw a comment from an "anonymous" user stating that the site couldn't be accessed from Firefox.  I'm sure he was not right because I tested this site in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 before uploading it for the first time.

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