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give me liquid!

while liquid design is important in websites, it is 6 gazillion times more important in html email. I […]

egress

marc takeno writes: “Hi, Just wondering what your take is on Amazon’s lack of “exit” indications on any […]

sometimes a small notion

Moving WebWord > Understanding Design Misfits is an good paper to read to get some thinking going on […]

Anyone attend?

Just stumbled over the PDC 2000 – the Participatory Design Conference, and wondered if anyone had attended, and […]

User and Use

Usage Modes that Work Together (Web Techniques, Dec 2001) is an article that helps slice up the view […]

a mixed bag

Web Sites That Work Considering interface standards on the web Tools for Usability Making the World a Happier […]

about time

‘Discount’ user testing under fire “It has become almost a truism that tests involving five different users will […]

your slip is showing

I guess when you’ve been doing this long enough, you start to see common problems crop up again […]

ini mini miny mo…

Three Questions For Your Web Agency “Everyone’s a usability expert nowadays. But does your potential web agency really […]

usability and death

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for September 16 “New mobile devices and services are more realistic and useful than last […]

evaluate, cure

Evaluation Methods in Usability Testing Or, how to tell that you have a usability problem before it gets […]

think!

Guerrilla usability mary Deaton tells it like it is: “Before we look at when and how to test, […]

impeach!

Ben Henick, driven into a frenzy by the shoddy whitheouse.gov, catalogs its failings with virulent accurancy.

off the wall usability

webword points me at another useful tool for our toolbox, the Fly on the Wall observation method.

your tax dollars at work

Ben Henick, driven into a frenzy by the shoddy whitheouse.gov, catalogs its failings with virulent accurancy.

talk to users, save money.

Apply Usability Methodologies in Intranet Information Architecture in a Real World Context Part II “A user needs analysis […]

yr pal

Another gem from Dan Brown: Usability review of PayPal’s mobile version

old argument

The arguments about liquid design, scalable fonts and line length comes up again and again. You may wish […]

no pain, no gain

I don’t know how I missed Whipping Users into Shape , but it’s a hoot… “Ease of use […]

usability and scrying

“What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens is the operation of their own brains. It is not […]

happy unbirthday

It’s not Jakob Nielsen’s birthday, but I meant every word I said. went over to a friend’s new […]

Happy birthday

it’s not his birthday Jakob’s Nielsen’s is actually October fifth, making him a libra like yours truly. It’s […]

giving up gurus

Is a high priced usability “Guru” a good investment? is an interesting and brutaly honest look at what […]

fast and slow

yesterday’s opening thang said server logs couldn’t tell you what your users bandwidth is. it seems I was […]

fighting the good fight

Sean Smith wrote and asked me for ammunition against pop-up ads. The article “Pop-up Internet Ads: More Eyeballs […]