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Websites or software can be classified as HCIs, “Human Computer Interactions”. By definition those “interactions” are cold and impersonal ; you do talk to a computer and therefore don’t expect anything else. And usually that’s a good thing, those UIs should be straightfoward and do their job.

While this can be a rule of thumb when designing UIs,  I really think that software could act more as a human and should trigger some emotions, like: “Woooh, that’s magic!” or – and that is even easier – a smile on your users’face.
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Third party website integrations

In the “Did you notice that?” series, I discovered this morning an interesting Google Search feature. When searching for instance “Paris – Nouméa”, you find this nice integration of third-party travel websites directly in your results. Don’t know when they rolled out this feature, but for sure I am a fan. This saves some very valuable clicks!

Here are some other niceties from Google Search:

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