narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2008 | usability, design, web, article
Quoted: Summary:Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
Jakob Nielsen’s recently published web usage findings on browsing and search behaviors. The findings also reconfirm some of the existing usability guidelines (i.e. E-mail newsletters DO drive users back to the site, open new browser windows is confusing to users, non-standard ui elements are bad idea, ...etc.)
The test subjects to these findings were biased to “richer, intelligent” professionals. If these people are having trouble with understanding website ui, the rest of online users are likely to experience similar pain.
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | usability, lecture, event, free, UWSome interesting speakers coming up.
Quoted: TC 521 Winter 2008 Please join the Department of Technical Communication in Winter Quarter 2008 for a 10-week seminar series featuring TC experts. Each 30-minute ...
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2007 | usability, event, design, ux, conference
this year in Redmond, i thinkg
Quoted: World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better.
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | usability, seattle, events
Steve Krug - Don't make me think, The Workshop
Quoted: NOTE! This time around, I'm going to be doing a whole new workshop, devoting the entire day to low-cost/no-cost do-it-yourself usability testing.
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2007 | blog, article, web, webdesign, usability, resource
Showcase of 404 error page designs, part 1
Quoted: Every day you visit one of them. The pages, which don't exist any longer, have moved to a new server or never existed at all.
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2007 | art, event, conference, chi, ixd, ui, usability, ued
Who wants to go to Italy? For work!
Quoted: CHI 2008 will be held in Florence, Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance, and home to great artists and scientists. This is the city of Leonardo ...
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - May 01 2007 | usability, standards
A good short list of what to work on.
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 08 2006 | social, presentation, community, social-networking, usability, design, imported:del.icio.us
Putting the Fun in Functional - applying game mechanics to functional software. By Shufflebrain/Amy Jo Kim.
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2006 | resource, usability, ux, links, imported:del.icio.us
Welcome to the STCUsability & User Experience CommunityLots of great resources - books, web and other - here
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2006 | design, web, font, typography, usability, blog, agency, ia, article
InformationArchitects Japan is a UI agency with very welll-written blogs. This is part 2 of 2 articles on typography in web design and usability.
Includes common web design mistakes.
Quoted: An avalanche of comments, hundreds of applauding blog entries, honoring honorably mentions from cooler and more sublime and hotter and ...
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Visio is insane in poor usability. To select a "straight arrow" as default:
File/Page Setup/Layout and Routing/Appearance/Straight
Duh!
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