The folks here at UIE hope everyone is having a Happy Thanksgiving.

We’ve all been there. You find a new cool site. You decide to register for their service. You enter your favorite user id, the password, your pet’s birth date, the name of your third grade teacher (the cute one that you had a crush on), and your favorite Easter egg color. You finally press Submit. [...]

It’s amazing how many different ways web sites handle sign-in pages. The messaging of the interface, whether or not to sign up for an account, and the HTML elements used are just some of the details that change drastically from site to site. Just recently I was doing an interface review to see what the state of the art was, and I was simply boggled by the different approaches I saw. Here they are…

NPR exerts effort to recruit participants for a survey, only to turn them away when they get there.

Fandango.com recruits study participants during the signup process. Clever kids, those Fandango folks.

Whoo hoo! We’re going on a road trip! Six cities in early 2006! You don’t want to miss it!

The folks at the New England ASIST Chapter have posted a podcast of Josh’s presentation on Tuesday. You can download it from here.

You can also grab the presentation slides.

Christine discusses the 5 Second Test, a variant of traditional usability testing designed to measure a user’s “Blink” response to a web site.

Jared shares a little bit of what we’ve learned about an essential element to good UX design: having a solid vision.

Mike M. from PhillyCHI asked about whether there is an optimal page size. Jared responded. Did he get it right?