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The Black Sheep of Application Development: Why UI design teams are usually the outcasts in most application development projects. (Chris Gieger) |
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Usability Myths, So-called Best Practices and Misconceptions: So much research. So many rules. So many misinformed UI decisions. (Chris Gieger) |
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Focus Groups Vs Usability Testing: Goals and expectations of a Focus Group Vs Usability Testing. (Chris Gieger) |
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Shouldn’t “usability experts” practice what they preach?: Have you ever visited the sites of a so-called “usability expert” and noticed how poorly their site is designed? (Chris Gieger) |
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Making "Useful" Use Cases: The problems with use cases and how they could be made more useful. (Chris Gieger) |
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First Rule Of Usability? Don't Listen To Users: To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. (Jakob Nielsen) |
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Comping & Prototyping: The amount of time you spend up front planning your ideas will pay off royally in the end. (Lynda Weinman) |
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Emotion & Design: Products designed for more relaxed, pleasant occasions can enhance their usability through pleasant, aesthetic design. (Interactions Magazine) |
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How Users Read: They don't.People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. (Jakob Nielsen) |
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How We Really Use The Web: The differences between how we think people use the web and how they actually use it. (Steve Krug) |
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Optimal Line Length For Reading: The influence of line length on the speed of reading text. (Bob Bailey) |
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The Three Click Rule: This unquestioned rule of web design has been around nearly as long as the web itself...but is it valid? (Josh Porter) |
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Paging Vs Scrolling: The use of paging vs. scrolling in reading passages, including participants' reading comprehension in paging and scrolling conditions. (J. Ryan Baker) |
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Intranet Design: On average, companies saw intranet use increase by 98% following their winning usability redesigns. (Jakob Nielsen) |
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Wayfinding: To assure that people can return to items of interest, and also to assure that they can find new ones, Information Architects can borrow from an architecture discipline called wayfinding. (Christina Wodtke) |
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Web Content Usability: Guidelines and tips for developing standards by which you can measure the usability of your Web site's content. (Thomas Myer) |
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Web Object Placement: A stufy on the placement of web objects that are common to most e-commerce websites. (Michael Bernard) |
