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Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - >*
indeed. it's actually sort of annoying that the GReader Android apps are still pretty nice, because that's where I do about 75% of my reading, and it's hard to decide to switch from that.
google  webdev  usability 
november 2011 by epersonae
The New Amex Biz Travel Site Thinks I’m An Idiot
I've seen several software packages that do this; always annoying.
usability  webdev 
october 2011 by epersonae
Three Questions You Shouldn't Ask During User Research
better to know what people have done and see what they're doing, then to ask them what they might do, what they want, or why they did something.
usability  webdev 
september 2011 by epersonae
Usability in Icons | Stiern
Do (inexperienced) people understand the "chain" or "globe" icons for creating links in a CMS? I've had to do this training myself. I'm torn: on the one hand it would be nice to have something more immediately understandable, on the other it's not terribly difficult to train people to recognize. (On the third hand, a lot of people don't get the concept of writing "what you want to be the link" and then highlighting it to create a link right off the bat either.)
usability  webdev  cms-research  drupal  wordpress 
september 2011 by epersonae
Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : JavaScript and screenreaders
"98.4% of screenreader users had JavaScript enabled" - no kidding. BUT...still usability/accessibility issues, and "small percentages of big numbers are also big numbers"
javascripty  accessibility  usability 
march 2011 by epersonae
The Benefits of Wireframing a Design
usability  wireframe  webdev 
february 2011 by epersonae
It’s Not a Training Issue :: UXmatters
“Training should never be a substitute for designing a usable application.” YES.
intranet  usability  webdev 
december 2010 by epersonae
Usability Testing: Usability testing is broken: Rethinking user research for social interaction design
interesting to me that she uses the example of a retirement planning site. I've thought about the same thing with online banking. (and IIRC, the last time I did usability testing, I had a couple come in together, because that's how they used the site.)
usability 
december 2010 by epersonae
LukeW | UI15: Developing Successful Personas
usability  personas  webdev 
november 2010 by epersonae
10 Years In The Hole: A Possibly Cautionary Tale About Being A Higher Ed Web Geek
Dylan's HighEdWeb presentation.
academia  personal  javascripty  accessibility  usability  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
Dancing with the Cards: Quick-and-Dirty Analysis of Card-Sorting Data :: UXmatters
a really clever to handle the craziness that comes out of card-sorting.
usability  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
The Usable Library
neat stuff. (found via a metatalk thread about servers and such, of all things.)
library  usability 
september 2010 by epersonae
Web accessibility for cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Opera Developer Community
"You may think that a lot of the points made in this article are nothing more than common sense, and you would be absolutely right! The good news is that the best strategy for creating a site accessible to those with cognitive or learning difficulties is to provide clear and straight forward content in an easy to use interface with few distractions."
accessibility  usability  writing  webdev 
august 2010 by epersonae
10 tips for 'ambush guerilla user testing' - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - 3 June, 2010
usability 
june 2010 by epersonae
Usability News 121 - Owens
"The manipulation of the color of the channel title did not affect the initial fixation point of the portal page as hypothesized." location, location, location.
usability  intranet 
june 2010 by epersonae
Ten free usability testing tools | Econsultancy
usability 
june 2010 by epersonae
LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide
fascinating!
mobileweb  android  design  usability  reference  webdev 
april 2010 by epersonae
» Debunking the Myths of Online Usability Testing Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive
some things here I want to try
usability  to-do 
april 2010 by epersonae
Why you only need to test with five users (explained): Measuring Usability
with math! and charts!
usability  science 
march 2010 by epersonae
Do’s and Don’ts of Usability Testing :: UXmatters
usability  reference 
march 2010 by epersonae
10 unexpected online user behaviours to look out for
usability  webdev 
march 2010 by epersonae
Analytics – The Usability Lab of the new decade
last paragraph is the winner. also, I loved Measure Map back when I used it.
seo  usability  google 
february 2010 by epersonae
Unmoderated, Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil? :: UXmatters
includes overview of a variety of services
usability  reference 
january 2010 by epersonae
How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong - Smashing Magazine
I like that it starts with, first: they might not be wrong, before going into tactics. And I LOVE the inclusion of giving in w/an option for testing. Data trumps most everything else, honestly.
usability  business  webdev 
december 2009 by epersonae
SUS: How to Easily Grade Your Site’s Usability – Jens Meiert
thinking about putting this into a drupal webform.
usability  reference 
december 2009 by epersonae
Education for a team of none — Jason Robb
of course, he's still talking about an actual UX person, rather than a situation like mine, where my UX-ness is part of all my "other duties as assigned"!
usability  webdev 
june 2009 by epersonae
WordPress-liked Dashboard | groups.drupal.org
The more I use the newer versions of WordPress, the more I wish for something similar in Drupal. I'm liking the RootCandy theme thus far, although the Administration Dashboard module looks interesting. Will need to check back when there's an actual release.
usability  drupal  wordpress 
april 2009 by epersonae
Modern Sitemap and Footer
"Now, a lot of modern websites have dropped the sitemap page, instead they place the sitemap in the footer area. I’m going to review 20 websites (from big corporation to small portfolio sites) who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability." What was that ALA article about big footers?
design  usability  inspiration 
march 2009 by epersonae
Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
crazy! (they almost look like micro-versions of "hub" pages.) something to test, perhaps?
usability  css 
march 2009 by epersonae
UX team of one
slides & stuff. it was a good presentation
usability  reference  sxsw  inspiration 
march 2009 by epersonae
Unobtrusify.com - Unobtrusive Javascript for Progressive Enhancement
cute little single-serving site
javascripty  accessibility  usability  standards 
february 2009 by epersonae
Subtraction 7.1: Orange You Sorry About Tropicana?
"Whatever the perceived drawbacks of the old cartons, shown below, they were successful in at least one critical respect: they handily solve the problem of creating clear visual differentiations among over a dozen very similar products." not to mention that they're operating in a space with lots and lots of similar options. that new design: the distinctiveness, it does not haz it.
design  usability 
february 2009 by epersonae
Generic Work Process - v1.0
nice gathering of all the different usability "stuff"
reference  usability 
february 2009 by epersonae
17 usability tips to make your CMS rock | Pat's Point of View
yes, all that.
usability  intranet 
february 2009 by epersonae
Information Architects » Blog Archive » The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
and the original. good stuff.
usability  typography 
january 2009 by epersonae
Relative readability / Wilson Miner
"He included a picture of a magazine held at reading distance in front of a monitor at browsing distance."
usability  typography 
january 2009 by epersonae
Alignment - Formulate Information Design
"There is evidence that designs with fewer edges are not only more aesthetically pleasing but also easier to use, when compared to designs with a greater number of edges" also, label above field, rather than next to.
usability 
january 2009 by epersonae
Dyslexia and accessibility | 456 Berea Street
The color contrast issues (part 2) were entirely new to me. (Elizabeth, do you find this to be so?) Most of the recommendations in part 3 are pretty straightforward good-readability stuff, IMHO.
accessibility  usability  personal  webdev 
november 2008 by epersonae
Dream team ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
"Can you understand it better if I show it to you like this?" Yes, yes I can. (Improved readability through lists!) Plus, (a) I think I read this story or something very like in Wired several years ago, and (b) damn right it helps to have someone taking care of you while you do creative stuff. (sigh)
writing  arts  psychology  usability 
october 2008 by epersonae
What Goes into a Well-Done Critique
"Critique-Safe Environments"
usability 
september 2008 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Look at it Another Way
I'd sort of like to pick up her book.
marketing  psychology  usability 
september 2008 by epersonae
Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it
"Many of these problems are with volunteer software in general, not Free Software in particular. [...however...] it’s in Free Software that we see volunteer software’s usability problems most often." cultural issues, mostly.
usability  opensource 
august 2008 by epersonae
Tales of Coding: W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibility
"cover specific examples of matching mobile web usability issues with accessibility issues" awesome!
accessibility  usability  mobileweb 
july 2008 by epersonae
“Gorilla” Usability Testing | GarrettDimon.com
"I believe it can bring usability testing the masses and will be the go-to application for basic usability testing." assuming that the masses have macs. grumble grumble. it does look REALLY useful, tho.
usability  mac 
july 2008 by epersonae
Seems a bit drastic on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
a fine bit of bad sign absurdity
weird  usability  urbanstudies 
july 2008 by epersonae
A Whole Lotta Nothing – Previous/Next and Back/Next pagination links considered harmful
exactly. and MeFi has been cool with this for [n] years! :)
usability  webdev 
july 2008 by epersonae
Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax
"Plan for Ajax from the start. Implement Ajax at the end." A very succinct way to express it. (Shelley makes a similar point in Adding Ajax.)
javascripty  usability  accessibility 
june 2008 by epersonae
Reputation Parent - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
for OlyBlog?
reference  blogosphere  local  olympia  to-read  usability  psychology 
june 2008 by epersonae
Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed! [Privacy and Trust]
IOW, we are totally screwed.
security  accessibility  usability  society  webdev 
june 2008 by epersonae
Turn Usable Content into Winning Content :: UXmatters
particularly good stuff on the role of voice.
usability  writing  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
"Most professional users are not very interested in podcasts or newsfeeds (RSS)." -- just highlighting that as part of an ongoing discussion. I think this is one of mr. crankypants's better articles.
usability  webdev 
february 2008 by epersonae
Meryl.net » How to Do Usability Testing Cheap and Fast
interesting idea to buy gift cards from the place where doing testing to give to subjects.
usability 
january 2008 by epersonae
What makes a good form? - Formulate Information Design
clear, concise, clever & contextual.
usability 
january 2008 by epersonae
The Perpetual Super-Novice
I love this term. I think this is the relationship that most people have with technology, particular software.
usability  misctech  webdev 
december 2007 by epersonae
New Thinking by Gerry McGovern: Every website is NOT different
truth: people on the web are impatient & cheap.
marketing  usability  webdev 
december 2007 by epersonae
scottberkun.com » Usability is not a verb
reason number #8427 why I like being a generalist...usability is part & parcel of all the rest of my making & doing.
philosophizing  usability  webdev 
december 2007 by epersonae
Interface Research
A survey on design element preferences. Kinda fun.
usability  webdev 
november 2007 by epersonae
Coding Horror: Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
yes, the basics.
writing  usability  seo  webdev 
november 2007 by epersonae
30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of | Know-How
comes with a nice glossary, too.
usability 
october 2007 by epersonae
Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
cut to the chase: there's a Goldilocks moment for intro text, where it gives just enough context to set the stage, not so much as to be dull, and not so little as to baffle.
usability  webdev 
october 2007 by epersonae
Ten Steps to User Persona By Dr. Lene Nielsen
includes a lovely downloadable flier.
usability 
october 2007 by epersonae
How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design?
Includes a downloadable flier with images & descriptions!
usability  psychology 
october 2007 by epersonae
10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of | Developer's Toolbox
although I've been quite surprised at how many times ordinary users ASK for drop-down menus. (multi-level, OTOH, is pretty much always a disaster.)
usability  webdev 
october 2007 by epersonae
Killer web Content examples
It's boggling how important writing is to web design. In a good way (for me) though.
writing  usability  webdev 
october 2007 by epersonae
Building Block Definitions (Containers)
My brain can't quite process this today.
intranet  information_architecture  usability  to-read 
september 2007 by epersonae
Who Remembers These Things?
ugh. security questions can be a PITA. I'd rant, but it'd be about work. :)
security  usability  webdev 
september 2007 by epersonae
How to be an Empathic Web Designer - Bokardo
very timely!
usability  psychology 
september 2007 by epersonae
adaptive path » demystifying data analysis
post-its! I'm actually trying some of this whilst doing usability testing.
usability 
september 2007 by epersonae
20 (Alternate) Ways to Focus on Users
fun things to try!
usability  reference 
september 2007 by epersonae
Card Sorting: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned :: UXmatters
re-read this later.
to-read  usability 
september 2007 by epersonae
A Map-Based Approach to a Content Inventory - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
conceptual subway-style maps.
information_architecture  usability  intranet  to-read 
september 2007 by epersonae
Getting A Form's Structure Right
all focused on financial institutions. lots of good tips, 99.99999% of which I can't do anything about.
creditunion  usability  webdev 
august 2007 by epersonae
Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters
labels just above the field, not bolded, aligned the same way as the fields. just so you know.
usability  webdev 
august 2007 by epersonae
Bokardo » 16 Core Observations of Social Design
aka: things to remember about humans.
usability  blogosphere  psychology  webdev 
august 2007 by epersonae
OJR's 'five guide' to do-it-yourself website usability testing
with templates/samples! much like Don't Make Me Think, but maybe a bit more "advanced."
usability  reference 
august 2007 by epersonae
The Effect of Website Typeface Appropriateness on the Perception of a Company’s Ethos
Calibri, Cambria, Arial, Calisto, Georgia good; Curlz bad. But you knew that already. (What about Verdana?!)
design  usability 
august 2007 by epersonae
adaptive path » blog » Charmr Project
fascinating. maybe not yet practical, but definitely visionary.
science  usability 
august 2007 by epersonae
Usability Testing: Be sure to test content as well as navigation
once you've found the answer to your question, is that answer any good?
usability 
august 2007 by epersonae
10 ways to orientate users on your site
usability  reference 
august 2007 by epersonae
free beer usability testing
I've been dying to try this for ages. May get a chance!
usability  weird 
july 2007 by epersonae
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