When I wrote about volume controls in video and audio players earlier this year, it was because my friend Tim Nekritz tweeted about the lack of volume control for desktop/laptops on the National Public Radio (NPR) First Listen site.
I decided to investigate and found out NPR wasn’t the only site without volume control on their audio player. Continue reading Six Months Later: NPR Audio Players Has Volume Control With Chrome Extension
When you work on the web and create products for users, you can get caught up with all the technology.
You want to work on the fastest machine, fanciest monitor, latest smartphone, and quickest connection for your work.
We often forget: that’s not what our users are using. Continue reading 5 Easy Ways to Keep Your Users in Mind
I was stumped this morning when I read my friend Tim Nekritz’s tweet:
https://twitter.com/TimNekritz/status/724621615774965761
At first, I assumed Tim was referring to audio or video autoplay on a website, a practice that annoys users who don’ appreciate being surprised by a video or audio they starts automatically. Continue reading Ongoing Trend? Video and Audio Players Without Volume Control