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Interesting online browser test. Browsershots test your page against dozens of (unknown) browsers and OS and gives you a screengrab of your website in each browser. Quite handy and free.

http://browsershots.org

Adaptive Path and Mozilla Labs have launched Aurora Concept Video with their ideas about “one possible future user experience for the Web”.

See below the 1st part:

Nice chart sent by Andreas this morning:

http://xach.com/moviecharts/2008.html

I’m glad that delicious finally launched their long awaited new website. I haven’t got time to explore it properly yet but the tag filtering, search and navigation seem to be immensely improved.

You can check the new website at www.delicious.com

Bruce Temkin is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. He published this 10-page book(let) which can be downloaded (for free) on his blog:

Free Book: The 6 Laws Of Customer Experience

Chiara Fox posted a very insightful checklist for designing search result pages in Adaptive Path’s blog:

• Highlight the query term in the results.
• Restate the query on the results page.
• Show the number of results that were found.
• Include next and previous buttons, as well as links to additional pages, to move through results. These should be smartly linked; no link on previous if you are on the first page and so on.
• Include a query box so the user can search again.
• Don’t show the URLs of the result pages, unless your audience is techy enough to derive meaning from the URL.
• Have meaningful page titles and descriptions for each result.
• The page title should be the link to the result.
• Allow sorting and refinement tools if appropriate for your users and content.
• Indicate if a result is not a regular page (e.g., a PDF file).