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  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”

• Inexpensive ways to target problem areas

  
  Column Two — Authority: 125
  Todd Elliott has written an article on remote usability techniques . To quote: Until fairly recently, when designers wanted to test an idea or design, they sought out an outside usability agency or, rented a room, some expensive equipment and recruited users to come into an artificial environment to participate in ...
  7 hours ago

• Usability of a Patient Education and Motivation Tool Using Heuristic Evaluation

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  Background:Computer-mediated educational applications can provide a self-paced, interactive environment to deliver educational content to individuals about their health condition. These programs have been used to deliver health-related information about a variety of topics, including breast cancer screening, asthma ...
  16 hours ago

• Creating an iCal like Calendar with jQuery

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  This calendar is built with CSS and jQuery. It also features a lightweight Coda-like effect for event descriptions. You can find more details about the calendar here.
  18 hours ago

• Usability and Website Performance

  
  The Hot Strudel — Authority: 134
  Das hier ist ein guter Beitrag und durchaus lesenswert: Every Second Counts: How Website Performance Impacts Shopper Behavior . Today’s shoppers have high expectations when it comes to buying online. Websites which take too long to load can result in negative brand perception, diminished goodwill and a ...
  23 hours ago

• Usability - Round II

  
  ORCLville — Authority: 411
  I dont want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I dont want to play I want to bang on the drum all day -- From Todd Rundgrens "Bang On The Drum All Day" I know ive been banging the drum lately about applications usability…and I want to do some more banging right now. Theres a great opportunity for many ...
  1 day ago

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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 124
  Potpourri CXINot too much today, but here are a couple of sites for your reference...From Kraft and Triscuits, my favorite cracker for the last 30 years or so, a site called "Why Snackrifice?" The point of said site is to show how Kraft cheese/cracker combinations wont break the bank. Ive got a cousin working ...
  1 day ago

• "This Week’s 10 Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 157
  Gizmodo In this week’s never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Airplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Second iPhone app store revolution has begun
  1 day ago

• Menu Stacking, This Menu is Not For You

  
  Best Web Image - Web Usability and Design — Authority: 423
  So what is menu stacking you ask. Menu stacking is the design concept of having one horizontal menu stacked on top of another. These separate menus often address different target groups or needs, and can run anywhere from just two menus to eight. I say eight only because I have actually caught a website doing this. ...
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• Found/interesting: 15 October to 7 November

  
  Mission Creep | Neil Williams — Authority: 451
  Look what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently: BBC Democracy Live – Nifty live political TV and news thingummy via Simon Dickson. JobFact – community of anonymous employees – Compare your salary anonymously. Optimal Workshop – online card sorting tool – Fantastic and free online IA ...
  1 day ago

• Readability in Web Design

  
  www.IT-Everyday.com — Authority: 151
  One of the most important characteristics of any website or online material is it’s readability. In order for the content to be effective and to do its job, people must be able to easily read it. It sounds simple, but with the amount of distractions that are online and the difficulty that some people have with ...
  1 day ago

• Men, women deal differently with technological problems

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 7 (ANI): A survey has found that men and women have different approaches when it comes to dealing with technological problems.According to a gadget helpline, 64 percent male and 24 percent female callers do not read the instruction manual before calling up, and that 12 percent male and 7 percent female ...
  2 days ago

• "Second iPhone app store revolution has begun" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 157
  Mobile Tech Addicts The first iPhone app store revolution was the launch of the app store – the first one that provided automatic updates and global distribution and very good conditions for developers – 70% of sales goes to developers. Here is the original:  "Second iPhone app store revolution has begun" and ...
  2 days ago

• Is grid view the new default view for CSEs?

  
  nicolas leroy A blog on Comparative Shopping Engines and Social Shopping sites A gallery of personal photographies My travel journals — Authority: 115
  The latest redesign of Shopping.com puts the grid view as the default view. The new Pronto.com doesn’t have any list view anymore . Google is asking its merchants to provide high quality images, suggesting a revamped grid view might be in the works for its Product Search… Does grid view become the new default ...
  2 days ago

• Do aesthetics need to be compromised for the sake of usability?

  
  Boagworld — Authority: 560
  As you will know if you have followed me for any length of time, I have great respect for usability expert Gerry McGovern . We work on similar projects and share a similar view of the web. However, this week I parted company with Mr McGovern over his most recent post “ Why web links are calls to action .” In it ...
  2 days ago

• Q&A: The Top 21 Questions for Evaluating and Implementing E-Procurement

  
  Debbie Wilson — Authority: 108
  This new research (subscription required) answers the most common e-procurement-related questions that end users are asking Gartner.  Sample questions include how to maximize the ROI for e-procurement, how to drive user adoption, what to expect if you are integrating a best-of-breed solution to an ERP(s) and ...
  2 days ago

• Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems: Huffington Post

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I heard about this story on Huffington Post from David Kibbe, founding father of the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGwC). Heres a quote that struck my eye: Federal officials wont decide until early next year which types of systems to certify. But some of the worlds largest companies, including General Electric, ...
  2 days ago

• Google Commerce Search Unveiled

  
  Ecommerce Optimization & Marketing — Authority: 112
  This is something new and I have not tried it yet but I still thought it was interesting enough to bring forward here. Google recently unveiled a new Ecommerce Search Solution. It looks to be geared toward big ecommerce retailers and the pricing scheme for it will depend on the number of products/items on ...
  2 days ago

• Lessons from the VCR Clock Flashing 12:00

  
  Network Solutions - Small business conversations and working together for small business success — Authority: 115
  So, continuing some thoughts I started in my earlier entry, “ Things That I Don’t Understand ” (a limitless topic, to be sure), I revisit the VCR Clock Flashing “12:00″ Scenario (where the inability to program one’s VCR, as demonstrated by the flashing 12:00 on the VCR display, was an indicator of other ...
  2 days ago

• My favourite online form in the world

  
  iQ Blog — Authority: 117
  We’ve talked a lot about designing forms ( Niamh wrote about that yesterday in fact ). Forms are tricky to design, but essential to get right, because in most cases, at the other end of the form (checkout) is money . Your users abandon your form because it’s convoluted and annoying and you don’t get a sale ...
  2 days ago

• On Mobile, It’s Web 1.0 All Over Again

  
  PCMech — Authority: 504
  For those that remember internet in the late 1990s, you remember your dialup being slow, there was no such thing as tabbed browsing, web sites were clunky/cumbersome and difficult to navigate, low screen resolutions of the time meant lots and lots of scrolling, and well, you get the idea. Thankfully we don’t have ...
  2 days ago

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