Usability

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• in IT
  Seven Wishes for Windows 8
  A few suggestions for the next version of Windows
  by knowlengr / on Oct 25, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Usability”

• Conversion: 10 Advanced Techniques to Turn Shoppers Into Buyers

  
  E-Commerce Blog — Authority: 157
  If you are like most online retailers, roughly 97 out of every 100 visitors leave your site without buying anything. You can spend a lot of money on marketing, but those dollars will be wasted if you can’t convert visitors to buyers. There are countless articles that address ways to improve on-site conversion and ...
  21 hours ago

• What should a good ToDo Tool do?

  
  iThoughts - Upgrade your Brain — Authority: 107
  About a software - and what you would need it to do so you think it would be useful for you After trying out many different ToDo tools, I found that none of them makes using these tools fun. I don’t have a mac, otherwise I would certainly use something like “ Things “, as the introduction movies look pretty ...
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• KDE-Edu Education Survey

  
  KDE.news — Authority: 420
  The KDE-Edu team is looking for feedback from their users, to help drive development in directions that best suit their needs. All users are welcome to have their say. A short five-minute questionnaire has been created, asking for three key points where you think the KDE-Edu applications could be improved, as ...
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• EverydayUX morsels (November 21st – November 23rd)

  
  EverydayUX — Authority: 522
  QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Interesting post proposing that developers complaining about Apples Draconian processes might want to consider building a mobile web app. If not, then stop complaining! Killer Apps: Best Branded Mobile Applications – Forbes.com See advertisers! It *is* ...
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• Dealing with video accessibility - automating captions and transcripts

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 467
  I found out last week that Google had recently integrated YouTube with Googles speech-text technology, allowing videos displayed on YouTube to have their captions and transcripts automatically generated. In addition, these captions and transcripts can then be translated, via Googles text translation system, and ...
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• The value of drop-in labs

  
  Column Two — Authority: 424
  Jeni Cram has written on the the value of drop-in labs when launching a new CMS. To quote: Drop-in labs are a great way to make the rollout process smoother. A drop-in lab is simply a set time where you invite users to a working session with staff on hand to help. Not only will the labs help reduce support calls ...
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• Popular Home Page Designs Deconstructed

  
  Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog — Authority: 107
  TechCrunch home page as viewed in Notable TechCrunch is the most recent recipient of a home page critique by Zurb, using Notable , their visual feedback tool for design teams. Zurb have also reviewed the home page designs of other popular sites, such as Twitter and CNN . While some of the feedback about ...
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• What would Sally do? Personas for retail financial services

  
  dancingmango — Authority: 400
  Personas are ‘pen portraits’ that bring to life users or customers of a system, service or product.  Giving a personality and back story to your customers helps keep your thinking true to their real needs and goals.  Rather than using  ‘user’ or a segment descriptor such as ‘empty nester’, or ‘this is ...
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• OWB 11gR2 – Oracle By Examples

  
  Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Weblog — Authority: 115
  There are a number of OBEs available for the OWB 11gR2 release which range from an overview of all the cool new usability improvements in the mapping editor (auto-mapping improvements, copy-paste expressions, operators, operator groups, group/ungroup operators, spotlighting to name a few!), through basics of using the ...
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• Bryan Eisenberg interview, sneak peek of SES Chicago

  
  PPC-Advice.com — Authority: 406
  I finally managed to hook another big one in the online marketing industry, none other than Bryan Eisenberg. However, if I were a fisherman I’d be somewhat disappointed and throw him back... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• How to Design Your Site to Convert

  
  Web Design, Seo, Blog Marketing Tips — Authority: 121
  Successful websites do two things. First, they attract a regular flow of visitors who are interested in what you offer. Second they are designed to get these visitors to take action. To convert your flow of traffic from interested lookers to buyers or at least get them started into your conversion process. This could ...
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• arXiv Receives $883K Stimulus Grant

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 549
  A three-year NSF grant will create new tools for arXiv e-print repository.
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• Pros and Cons of Financial Planning Software

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 486
  If you would like to understand about fiscal planning software, you have probably already found out that finding the proper software for you can prove to be a little troublesome. Thereis a big variety of financial planning software that is available for download across the web and for sale from a variety of outlets. ...
  2 days ago

• Interesting CHI discussion

  
  Touch Usability — Authority: 100
  James Landay has started an interesting (and very lengthy) discussion at his blog about the CHI conference review process and many related things: I give up on CHI/UIST . If you liked Greenberg and Buxtons 2008 paper and panel about how CHI needs to accept a broader type of work (especially papers about systems ...
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• Fingerless gloves for your touchpad

  
  Touch Usability — Authority: 100
  From Lifehacker comes a recommendation that should embarrass touchpad makers (like, ahem, Synaptics): Wear Gloves to Stop Touchpad Annoyances Photo by Nessa Land . Miguel tells us how he keeps his mouse from jumping on laptops: If youre writing on a laptop, and you constantly find your palmbrushing ...
  2 days ago

• Test Google Website Optimizer: knowing your best home page

  
  The LEADSExplorer Blog: Lead generation - Website visitors - CRM - B2B — Authority: 120
  Although we believe in our product (and our customers seem to do so too), we feel the path from website visitor -> to free trial user customer is suboptimal and could / should be improved. There are enough website visitors; still we have a feeling that the conversion rate could be higher. In order to know you ...
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• 5 Tips For Developing A Website For Your Audience

  
  Make Money Online — Authority: 128
  Developing a website is important if you want to be a player in ecommerce . However, you don’t want to just develop a website any old way. Instead, you want to develop a website for your audience. When doing research online you have probably seen generalized information on how to develop a website, however it is ...
  3 days ago

• Usability in enterprise Apps: Workday 9

  
  Next Gen Enterprise — Authority: 130
  Usability in Enterprise Applications I recently saw a video of Workday 9 , and was not impressed with the apparent usability of one of the highly touted features of this release. I tweeted my impression, and got a quick and friendly response from the team at Workday. They didnt complain about my bias or lack of ...
  3 days ago

• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes.

  
  ThousandtyOne! - .NET, Life and Logical Thoughts By Rajiv Popat — Authority: 416
  Wikipediadefines Lorem ipsum in a website design proposal as - generally incomprehensibleplaceholder text allows viewers to focus on the visual elements, rather than the content. Lipsum - theonline Lorem Ipsum generator is bullish about the Lorem Ipsum history and future: Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text ...
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• EverydayUX morsels (November 19th – November 21st)

  
  EverydayUX — Authority: 522
  Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Nice thorough walk through some important high level concepts to consider when designing for mobile. 100 Strangers Project – a set on Flickr I absolutely love this project. Always wanted to do something like ...
  3 days ago

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