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 found in the first 5 subjects as espoused by many Usability pundits, and 2) Does the same test run with a different sample reveal the same defects. The answer seems to be no.
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 e r: Church of Usability
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
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