It never ceases to amaze me, that the best experience we seem to come up with for feeding a computer, after multi-touch this-and-that and semantic wonderment, and peer2peer, socially syndicated gobble-d-gook, are text fields, radio buttons, check boxes and menus. My Dad used to say that he had an unparalleled skill at creating errors on [...]
Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing… The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders. In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are [...]
Usability guru shoot-out 5 (ok, 6) usability evangelists drive their ponies to the OK corral and basically agree that pages should load fast. Really not a bad read to summarize the tenants of Andrew Chak, Alan Cooper, Robert Davis and Paul Laroche, Jakob Nielsen & Jared Spool ZDNet: d e v e l o p [...]
Uncle Sam and usability Your tax dollars at work! The U.S. Gov has a team of researchers working on projects you can download and use to determine and map various metrix of a new or existing site. NIST Web Metrics Home Page
Avatarnets moving along… Peter Small has come a long way with his avaters as a group resource/info sharing medium. His concept of a “virtual cafe” is being used to some extent at: Agent control panel His main site give all the background data at: http://www.avatarnets.com
WebTANGO:Automating Web Site Usability Evaluation The Group for Interface Research at UC Berkeley are working on a tool to automate the assessment of a web sites usability. Like an automated Jakob Nielsen! BAILANDO Project: WebTango