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User-Generated Guinness Book of Records

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Friday, April 11th, 2008
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The Internet is emerging with user-generated sites like YouTube, Flickr and more. Another user-generated site has come to the surface for users to submit their own world record attempts.

Once you’ve posted your record, others can add their records for the same task as well. Users can also add attempts, results, and comments, which are nice ways of gaining a community feel for the site. Continue exploring the site by checking out the related records, see where on the globe the records are coming from, and add votes and ratings for records and comments. Mashable

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The site has a lot of random record attempts, like holding your breath for the longest and most received emails in one day. So if you have a record attempt you want to get out to the public, check out What's Your Record and post up your belching alphabet attempt.

“as soon as you need instructions, you fail”

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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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I'm making this a quote for others to remember and hopefully get it stuck into those who make user interfaces:

as soon as you need instructions, you fail
Dallas J Clark - 2007

I told this over and over to my multimedia students at WideBay TAFE all last year, and I believe it stuck into some peoples minds. Yes it is cool to show a different interface that is really different to others out there, but you're making a big risk in doing so.

Scriptaculous Example - Silly Easy Shopping Thumbnail
The above image shows an interface that's pretty simple (and it still required instructions), but imagine if this was a full shopping cart system with 100's of products.

Some flash sites out there can be the most confusing, especially when they don't follow good design practices. Plain and simple, if you stick to the normal user interface principles, your users can enjoy the service and your users will be able to get the information they want from your site.

The worst thing you can do for your viewers is confuse them about how to use the site, they won't pursue to figure out how to use it, they will simply walk away.

"as soon as you need instructions, you fail"

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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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I'm making this a quote for others to remember and hopefully get it stuck into those who make user interfaces:

as soon as you need instructions, you fail
Dallas J Clark - 2007

I told this over and over to my multimedia students at WideBay TAFE all last year, and I believe it stuck into some peoples minds. Yes it is cool to show a different interface that is really different to others out there, but you're making a big risk in doing so.

Scriptaculous Example - Silly Easy Shopping Thumbnail
The above image shows an interface that's pretty simple (and it still required instructions), but imagine if this was a full shopping cart system with 100's of products.

Some flash sites out there can be the most confusing, especially when they don't follow good design practices. Plain and simple, if you stick to the normal user interface principles, your users can enjoy the service and your users will be able to get the information they want from your site.

The worst thing you can do for your viewers is confuse them about how to use the site, they won't pursue to figure out how to use it, they will simply walk away.