0.1 second is the response time limit if you want users to feel like their actions are directly causing something to happen on the screen. For example, if you click on an expandable menu and see the expanded version in less than 0.1 seconds, then it feels as if you made the menu open up. If it takes longer than 0.1 seconds for the revised state to appear, then the response doesn’t feel “instantaneous” — instead, it feels as if the computer is doing something to make the menu open.

I know how that feels: I’ve played online games with a latency of half a second, which is painful.

Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).

You can even filter by screen resolution to find the best quality pics for your monitor size.

I also found what I reckon is the best visualiser for iTunes. It’s not free, but the demo is. The demo has ugly ‘reminders to buy’. But it’s so good that I bought it. Click for G-Force

I also quite like another visualiser from the same people. Click for Whitecap

This looks awesome. I’d love to hear more about how people have used it.

If you need to know the time somewhere else, this is a really nice online app. I’ve been using World Clock until now (which is good). But this is really nice. I think I’ll be using this from now on.

Well, not much – as far as I’m concerned. This tool probes your browser history to find what information you might be sharing with other sites. Interesting.

A great tool for mind mapping. It’s free, it’s online (works in your browser), it’s easy to use (follow the guide – the shortcuts are essential, and simple). It has some neat functions too: add graphics, share (collaborate), add links, attach files, export in a bunch of formats, etc… Here’s one I made in 5 mins as an example.

It’s great.

They have a version for iPhone too, but it’s not as flexible as the online version yet.

Click for ‘100 (Really) Creative Business Cards’ | Webdesigner Depot.

Also worth watching the video of his presentation on the ‘10 Harsh Truths of Institutional Websites’. He talks a lot about Higher Educational websites.

If you like those, then watch this too: 10 ways to battle site bureaucracy.

I loved the music, places, gameplay, friends
I’ve made. I even got the wife to play.
I also built it into my MA.
But hey. All good things must but come to ends.
And even though my Shockadin defends
The flag, the node, the healer – pvp;
My Shadow Priest, her racial stole away;
My mage’s macros Blizzard thought offends
The balance of this bloody game. Enough.
Before this game I had a better cause.
This quiet rest now gives me time to spare.
Design, compose, and make creative stuff,
Is what I should be doing without pause.
I now have time. If only I could dare.

Damn. I used to be able to knock up a half-decent sonnet in 30 minutes. This rubbish Petrarchan sonnet took over two hours. Damned iambic pentametre and fiddly rhymes. Perhaps I should have stuck to the English sonnet structure. Perhaps I should have stuck to playing WoW.

Just add /feed to the end of a category’s URL. For example, here is the URL for my KM category:

http://e-wot.com/category/km/

And here is the RSS feed for my KM category:

http://e-wot.com/category/km/feed