I recently found this great website called Internet Archive:Wayback Machine. Basically it lets you see snapshots of different websites starting from 1996 to present day. I found this fascinating for at least two reasons. It's fun. To see how Microsoft's site looked back in 1996, or alpha version of Google. The other (more important aspect to me) is - this site is a great learning tool. Like in movies you can go back in time and jump between eras, see how the world changed. How sites we visit every day looked like few years ago. It may be eye-opening,...
I'm not going to do this often but I just found out who said one sentence that I just adore and I wanted to store it here for further reference. As far as the customer is concerned, the Interface is the product. Jef Raskin This is so true, and yet too often user experience is so low on project's priority list. There's another quote on this: Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.Jef Raskin Technorati Tags: UX, User Experience, GUI, quotes