Comments on: Smarter search and recent object functionality

By: Java is just fine for your online service startup development « Keeping it brief – Pietro Polsinelli’s blog

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:39:36 +0000

[...] is not enough; never tried Google? So we did some work on this theme too. Here is a quote from Smarter search and recent object functionality : Here we examine a technique to improve usability in complex applications by introducing smarter [...]

By: Notes on usability, game mechanics, and Teamwork’s evolution « teamwork’s blog

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:40:55 +0000

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By: Managing with lists vs. managing with trees « teamwork’s blog

Managing with lists vs. managing with trees « teamwork’s blog — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:12:01 +0000

[...] how to improve usability, without impoverishing the model, see for example this blog post. Also if you want to try switching from lists to trees, Teamwork provides an import from [...]

By: jblooming

jblooming — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Because we don’t want exponential decay of days close to today, but still want some decay.

By: Eric Jain

Eric Jain — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:10:14 +0000

I’m curious what the reasoning is for using “the right side of a Gaussian curve” rather than exponential decay, which would seem like the default approach for modeling fading interest?

By: jblooming

jblooming — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:27:00 +0000

Other uses of collecting hits that I didn’t mention are as a way of collecting statistics of most used functionalities, which can help in improving the usability of your application. You can also detect “paths” in sequences of hits, and that too can be used for improving user experience.