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TG like browsing Youtube to look for great music video, movie clips or online advertising and got them embedded. The price is perfectly right — no charge at all!! Yesterday, TG found Youtube made a small but significant change in its embedded video.
As usual, TG played a favorite movie clip with an embedded link, when it came to an end, Youtube displayed a number of other choices, that’s usual; yet it added another UI element at the top.

Guess what it is? It’s a search box!

TG don’t know when and how Youtube come up with this idea. It’s a brilliant though. Not only does its small deployment increase its stickiness, engaging the users in Youtube environment, it also enables users to get quick access to a barrage of video - a user-centered tactic. TG was addicted to it, kept trying searching for another 30 mins..
Congratulation Youtube!!
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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?
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