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”

• New Middle Web Sites: Techmeme and Google News

  
  Wap Review — Authority: 494
  Techmeme , the popular tech news aggregator, launched a new mobile site yesterday.  The official announcement is here . I like what Techmeme has done,  The site, while targeted specifically at the iPhone, Android and Palm WebOS phones, isnt turning anyone away .  You can visit techmeme.com/m with any browser ...
  9 hours ago

• How to Write an “About Me” Page

  
  Best Web Image - Web Usability and Design — Authority: 127
  Whether visitors are on your blog or your business website, they expect to find an “About Me” or “About Us” page. For a blog it offers credibility, and a way to get personal with your audience. With a business website it can enhance credibility, it can present a better picture about your core functions, SELL, ...
  10 hours ago

• You Are Not Your User

  
  Marketing Technology Blog — Authority: 528
  If you are an expert in your business, you know more than almost anyone about what you do and about the details of your product. Your product, by the way, can be a service, a website, or a tangible good. Whatever constitutes your product, you can likely see your expertise and genius in every part of it. The problem ...
  10 hours ago

• Full Frontal ‘09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility

  
  Ajaxian Front Page — Authority: 609
  Todd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didnt say which version) have really good support for ARIA. And Opera, ...
  12 hours ago

• The Website Experience Nexus

  
  Web Developer and Content Management Expert Duo Consulting — Authority: 110
  Often in the creation of websites there is a tension between the tasks visitors want to accomplish and the messages companies want to market or the information they want to gain. With the exception of some social networking or entertainment sites, people expect a certain level of anonymity, and want to remain in ...
  13 hours ago

• Death to the file, long live the URL

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 126
  Part of an Ars Technica review of Googles new operating system. Longtime Ars readers may be familiar with my periodic rants aboutthe increasing disutility of the "volume/directory/file" metaphor formodern networked machines. Saving files, copying them, syncingthem--this is all pointless clerical work that I want ...
  13 hours ago

• Daily Links for November 18th through November 20th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 127
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology - The data in this report shows a consistent pattern for conservatives to trend towards “homey”, familiar, comfort foods and meat-heavy options. They are more likely than liberals to indulge in fast food and ...
  14 hours ago

• 3 Guest Posts Of Mine

  
  SEO ROI — Authority: 116
  @Search Engine Land: How predictive heatmap tools work and how they can lift your conversion rates . I write for SEL’s Just Behave (Usability/Conversion Optimization) column once a month. @Wolf-Howl: Why Google HQ Really LOVES Thin Affiliates . I write at Mike Gray’s site periodically, when I have something ...
  15 hours ago

• IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 107
  IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit is a free innovation guide for NGOs and social enterprises. Human-Centered Design ( HCD ) is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organisations. HCD can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for ...
  17 hours ago

• Solving Beer Estimation Difficulties

  
  the Human Factors Blog — Authority: 116
  T he subtle change in the diameter of a glass can hide large changes in volume. Unfortunately for us, we’re terrible at estimating this, even when we logically know it to be true. For example, a few millimeters at the top of a pint glass equals an ounce of liquid, while the same height measure at the bottom of the ...
  17 hours ago

• How Many Books Dance on the Head of an e-Pin?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 565
  Can the model used in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records be extended to embrace e-works? Or should it be trimmed instead?
  18 hours ago

• Four reasons why new websites flop

  
  Web Creative — Authority: 126
  Four reasons why new websites flop
  18 hours ago

• Use Gmail as Your Default Mail Application (Quick Tip)

  
  Firefox Facts — Authority: 123
  There are a lot of Firefox features that don’t get much press, or are quickly forgotten about.  For example, did you know that you could switch to using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as your default mail client (to handle those mailto links)? To chance your settings, go to Tools, Options and then click on the Applications ...
  19 hours ago

• Organic Textures VS Photoshop Brushes and Grunge Fonts

  
  Best Web Image - Web Usability and Design — Authority: 127
  With graphic design resources becoming increasingly available online, the allure to use them can be overwhelming. Talented designers from all over the world are consistently distributing new (and often free) graphic design tools – including, but not limited to, Photoshop brushes i.e., Splatter Brushes and grunge ...
  1 day ago

• Online Persuasion in the Holiday Season, Part 1: Rule of Reciprocation

  
  VKI Studios Blog — Authority: 465
  I recently wrote a post on the rule of reciprocation . The principle is simple enough: when someone does us a favor, we feel a strong impulse to give something back. Today Id like to examine a few ways in which we can use this principle to increase sales or leads over the holiday season. ...
  1 day ago

• Industrial Ecommerce Merchandising with Images

  
  Industrial Search Engine Marketing — Authority: 117
  As industrial ecommerce sites see more customers coming their way from the search engines, the need to have high quality, interactive images will increase. B2C sites are already using product zooms, multiple product views, interactive personalization, and other image techniques to increase time spent on site and ...
  1 day ago

• 9 resources to create better HTML forms

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Forms are a pretty boring piece of the Internet, it’s not fun to create and it’s not fun to interact with. Yet this is mostly our only way to communicate. We should strive to make better forms and make them as painless as possible to complete.
  1 day ago

• Quick – Test Me

  
  Beaconfire Wire — Authority: 110
  Testing a Web site is a pretty big, and not often inexpensive, task. Cara already posted about some inexpensive tools for user-testing wireframes . But for your design, there’s an opportunity to go even lower-budget than that. To do testing truly on the cheap, there is a new tool called fivesecondtest.com . ...
  1 day ago

• Information Commissioner: please redesign your stupid form

  
  malcolm coles — Authority: 525
  If you have a data protection issue, you can complain to the Information Commissioners Office . I recently complained about the Sun using a recording of Gordon Brown on the phone . I am not here going to go into why  cant believe its going to take them over a month to get back to me, or how awful the journey to get ...
  1 day ago

• EU ministers: accessible, interactive and customised online public services in Europe by 2015

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  EU press release ( link ): EU ministers have committed to developing smarter online public services for citizens and businesses by 2015. The Commission has welcomed this step forward in making eGovernment more accessible, interactive and customised. At the fifth Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Malmö (Sweden) ...
  1 day ago

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