User-Centered Design – Kelikuru.com

The clock is ticking, time is running out. Yahoo! Hong Kong decided to close down its forums by the end of next month. The news came yesterday's afternoon at Yahoo! Hong Kong forum.  Beginning on January 26th, 2010, users are no longer use Yahoo! Hong Kong forums to express their views and share ... Continue Reading

No matter how powerful your customer service tool it is, no matter how much user data you have, TG at Kelikuru.com assures you that qualitative research cannot be replaceable.  Facing your users, customers and talk to them one-on-one will build up a formidable relationship that can be long-lasting and rewarding in the ... Continue Reading

What's Kelikuru.com page rank?  TG was asked one day while having a mouthful of sandwich during lunch time. Frankly, TG did not check it very often. It was my friend in Shanghai who always reminds me of reviewing Kelikuru.com's PR often. He will text me and tell me that it's now PR3. How sweet! Google calculates ... Continue Reading

In certain way, Kelikuru.com is TG's laboratory to explore new or semi-new tools before I used it for other real projects. During the Xmas holidays weekend, TG has tried out  Google's  Custom Search Engine customization on my homepage. After setting up Google's Custom Search Engine, users can notice that a new search bar is placed at the top ... Continue Reading

B2C site operator eBay China  may be crippled but  is definitely fighting very hard to widen its market shares in mainland China by taking users experience into account. The company's latest campaign to power up its promotion to new users is encouraging from user point of view. The effort to differentiate old ... Continue Reading

Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) (腾讯) China's largest Internet firm is tipped to be one of the final bidders for social networking site, Friendster. The deal, valued at $100 million approximately, is said to be completed by the end of December, has already boosted Tencent share price 7.6 per cent today. Friendster is now mostly used in Asia where ... Continue Reading

The following is my personal experience. TG at Kelikuru.com is currently an ebanking user of Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank, which offers a range of banking services from account management to fund investment, securities trading.  To manage and keep track of my fund investment performance, TG recently spent more time in the past 2 weeks to make use of the ebanking system ... Continue Reading

Anchor link is no stranger to designers. We use it so often that it is an invisible bridge to guide users tour around website or browse information that is necessary to understand the whole picture. We use them to engage users, making our content-rich site more useful and more readable. In many instances, we may not notice that the anchor text is ... Continue Reading

Microsoft Bing search picked up 7 percent increase in October, 2009 while Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. search. The figures below are releasesd by Hitwise. Domain September 2009 October 2009 Month-over-month percent change google 71.08% 70.60% -1% search.yahoo 16.38% 16.14% -1% bing 8.96% 9.57% 7% ask.com 2.56% 2.62% 2% A couple of Search Engine Opitmization (SEO) factors to push up our pages and highly ranked in the organic search results in ... Continue Reading

While browsing the web in a more relaxed pace during weekend, TG find a Chinese-English dictionary with pin-yin audio. This is what I desperately need for a while. The user interface  design of the chinese-english dictionary is super super simple. To be more exact, it rarely has any design but yet ... Continue Reading