Google's usability study to test the microdata feature of HTML5.

DjangoVoice is a very simple application to enable user feedback that is integrated with your Django project.

"Rather than moving towards amalgamation and interoperability across databases, you really get the sense that everybody’s been busy grabbing at whatever piles of text they can lay their hands on, building the biggest little mudhill they can manage to put up, and then building walls around it. There are interstitial services that help a user 'jump' from one little fragmented collection to another and portals that aim to be a 'top level' to return to, sure, but we should be doing better by now."

A framework for performing and analyzing split-test experiments in Django applications.

The main aim of this task is to explore how hardware or software tools for reading e-books can provide support to users engaged with a variety of reading related activities, such as fact finding or learning.

OpenQA is the premier source for quality open source QA projects.

Common patterns of how AJAX interfaces look, and what users can do with them.

It’s time to take a look at how microformat detection could potentially appear in the user interface of a future version of Firefox.

An excellent argument in support of the Semantic Web vision.

Why technoweenies love Google: its user-unfriendliness.

The theme of this special issue is to explore and bring together a multi-faceted view on user-centered multimedia system and application design.

The new interface displays galleries of possible end-states, each of which combine many formatting operations. From this gallery, you select the complete look of your target -- say an org chart or an entire document -- and watch it change shape as you mou

Morae is an all-digital usability testing solution that lets you see real users – including their verbal and facial expressions – as they experience your software, Web site, or Web application.

As search costs continue to fall, expect an increased focus on psychic costs. Simplicity, limited choice, and hiding the masses of data will all become more common. Even sophisticated consumers prefer limited choice when the transactions are tiny.

The value of genre theory for content engineering is, that it helps to look at the design problems from a different perspective, and to ask a different type of questions with a broader scope than prevailing usability engineering strategies raise.

There are a variety of approaches to usability evaluation that you may choose to take.

Guide to selecting usability evaluation methods.

Developed in the 80's by Professor Noriaki Kano, the model is based on the concepts of customer quality and provides a simple ranking scheme which distinguishes between essential and differentiating attributes.

My notes on readings and lectures from IS214.

Usability is the measure of the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system, whether a Web site, a software application, mobile technology, or any user-operated device.

Easy-to-use software doesn't just happen. It requires focusing on the product's potential users from the very beginning, and checking at each step of the way with these users to be sure they will like and be comfortable with the final design.

In the dusty institutions where usability standards gather to party with each other, ISO 9241 is a bit of a celebrity. This white paper describes each of the 17 parts of ISO 9241 in detail.

A list of the summary postings from useful threads on CHI-WEB and SIGIA-L.

This course addresses concepts and methods of needs and usability assessment.