User Centric Design, User Experience Design, Usability, Interaction Design, SEO, Hong Kong, China internet
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WordPress Design to improve usability and search
By: TG on: Jul 8,2009 In: Web Navigation UsabilityTG met a couple of Hong Kong bloggers few days ago in a local coffee shop 茶餐廳. Unlike the modern setting of Starbucks or Pacific Coffee which sell tall-size coffee at HK$30-40 each, we chat and sat under a big ceiling fan, ordering set meals which serve with milk tea, ice coffee and Hong Kong-style dishes. We paid only about the same price and spent three [...]
Will Breadcrumb perish like Dinosaur?
By: TG on: Mar 19,2009 In: Web Navigation UsabilityStanding in the middle of the room is two groups of my teammates. TG at Kelikuru.com and my teammates are in heated debate discussing the usage of breadcrumb in a project.
Team A on the left suggests that the navigation tool’s primary purpose is to show the path from Home to where the users are now. It’s a “You are here” indicator, helps users move one level [...]
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As a note to myself in studying usability for Hong Kong and China website projects:
How Breadcrumb work:
When users drill further down to access contents in the next levels, [...]
Information Seeking by users aims for Time Optimization
By: TG on: Dec 30,2008 In: Web Navigation UsabilityThe Hong Kong and China web usability project starts from a single statement – we want to simiplify our information architecture and content structure. It sounds so simple and direct! Yet TG at Kelikuru.com found the site has hardly any quantitative data support or it has not done any solid qualitative studies before. Trying to improve its usability and user flow is quite a challenge.
In the process of finding [...]
About this blog
Kelikuru.com is 嘰哩咕嚕, a Chinese term basically means rumbling. The idea comes across TG's mind while watching a cartoon show on TV few years ago. We walk through our life,day by day ; speak to many people, known or unknown, year after year and we may not notice that there are so many wonderful things passing by. Writing a blog can literally leave my foot-prints in the internet world, help me keep the memory. At this moment, a big chunk of my life is closely aligned with user-centric design, user research, web-based environment both in Hong Kong and China. Perhaps I may not be like that tomorrow, I may be in other setting, have nothing to do with usability, but who knows what's going to happen next?
