“Welcome to the 21st century, where nothing works right, critical components of everyday life are far too complicated […]
LA Times: User-Unfriendly
Hand book of Usability Testing
Hand book of Usability Testing You have to run your own usability testing? Buy this book. This is […]
Designing Web Usability
Designing Web Usability Should probably be required reading for anyone who does web design. Yes Jakob is didactic, […]
Don’t Make Me Think!
Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability This is how it works: If you […]
the real reason Napster is revolutionary
It’s the consumer experience, stupid. (with apologies to Mark Hurst). a. Go their site. It’s easy to download […]
Gleanings: Go Do that VooDoo than YooDoo so well
From: Gleanings To: acolytes Subject: Gleanings: Go Do that VooDoo than YooDoo so well USABILITY MATTERS How should […]
Gleanings: It’s not easy being gleaned
From: Gleanings To: gleanettes Subject: Gleanings: It’s not easy being gleaned Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun. USABILITY MATTERS […]
“quick” time
fig 1.1 I pulled up the quicktime site the other day, in hopes of upgrading so I could […]
Gleanings: Feeling chatty this morning
From: Gleanings To: glean feelings Subject: Gleanings: Feeling chatty this morning USABILITY MATTERS and Christina rambles. Mark Hurst […]
Gleanings: folded and unfolding
From: Gleanings To: listeners Subject: Gleanings: folded and unfolding It’s a foggy Monday in San Francisco, so I […]
Gleanings: refreshed and refreshing
From: Gleanings To: Sleep is for the Smart Subject: Gleanings: refreshed and refreshing Hey kids… after a grueling […]
Gleanings: Brought to You from the Glamourous Excelsior
From: Gleanings To: the old hood Subject: Gleanings: Brought to You from the Glamourous Excelsior I moved over […]
Subject: Gleanings: Other People’s Gleans 2
From: Gleanings To: faithful listeners Subject: Gleanings: Other People’s Gleans 2 IA MATTERS from Andi: globalization UI issues […]
if the shoe fitts
lately I’ve been really facinated with Fitt’s law’s and principals. Especially the other day when I was on […]
how not to do a survey
So I was reading up on cellphones on ZDNet and had a survey pop-up in one of those […]
other people’s gleans
biggerhand.com has taken over my job as idle surfer… he writes “ok, i give. this is brilliant of […]
Gleanings: IA, design and brand
IA MATTERS creating trust in cyberspace iacandy a bunch of truly beautiful odd new visualizations.. information design and […]
geek feed
HCI Resources: Bibliographies and Publications
just flashy
Article on making Flash user friendly:Flazoom.com – Making Sure Usability ‘Fitts’ Flash
upside down
great article that explains why print has caused designers to design their pages upside down… It also helps […]
long long is too long
Was pointed to this article by the CHI-WEB list: Text and Margin Width Influences which helps sort out […]
more reading
found another great resource; a blog on all sorts of useful stuff: Mersault*Thinking – Information Architecture, Usability, UI, […]
less mail, more answers
for those folks who don’t want to get on the CHI-WEB list, there is always this:CHI-WEB archives where […]
Barnes & Noble.com
So faithful readers know I spent my flooz foolishly at B&N. Two days later, I decided I wanted […]
found sumptin cool
IBM/Ease of Use/Design…
burning a hole in my inbox
Well back in january, I was given a wedding shower present of Flooz. What is Flooz you ask? […]
beep beep yet
yet another fine collection of stuff on usability. especially excited about his paper on trust Peter “Beep” Boersma […]
eh
I’ve decided the Alertbox is just a blog out of control. His latest is particularly rambling.
quit yr excuses
Stumbled over this fine article that gives you rebuttles to all the arguments against user testing including some […]
everyone’s a critic
This is got to be one of the best opening lines of an article ever “While I like […]