“We’re looking [to] add another expert in usability who can take complicated business problems and design highly usable web interface solutions. This position requires experience in both interactive and visual interface design for business-to-customer websites and web-based applications. We are looking for a team player, who thrives on innovation and creativity.”
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Oristus — “The purpose of this article is to describe several ways that you can make money on the internet. The main idea is to provide you with options and insights. People with small and medium sized web sites, such as blogs, will benefit the most from this article.”
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Randy Peterman — “By watching users use the site you’ll see if your planned and (hopefully) well executed not bring you to a point of suffering. The point of usability studies is to give you solutions to reduce the need for confirmation of design choices.”
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Confusability — “I know that things are supposed to be bigger in the United States, but this is ridiculous!”
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Jakob Nielsen — “Simple, unobtrusive designs that support users are successful because they abide by the Web’s nature — and they make people feel good.”
Fluff piece. Sheesh.
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internet.com — “The better-designed your site, the better your chances of making the sale.”
What research is there that shows that a better design leads to an increased chance of a sale? Everyone believes this but where is the evidence? Throw some links this way; convince me that design impacts sales conversions.
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“Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather. What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of Apple’s Quartz rendering. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Mac OS X.”
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“How do you answer the question “Do you speak American”? Many people might answer that yes, they speak English. But English is not the only language spoken in this country. Twentyeight million people speak Spanish, and more than 2.8 million of them do not speak English at all. Among Americans who speak English at home–82 percent–there is a variation in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, from Maine watermen and Louisiana Cajuns to southern Californians.”
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I travel a lot for business and pleasure. I often gravitate to sites such as Orbitz, Hotels.com, Travelocity, and Expedia, for finding deals and making reservations. If needed, or properly enticed, I will visit specific company web sites, such as United, Hertz, Alamo, and Southwest.
In a recent search for a hotel, however, I started getting really tired of several issues with a few of these sites: broken back buttons, slow loading pages, dead functionality due to Java errors, and more. I’m quite tired of dealing with these problems, including the results. The search results never make sense because they are organized by preference of the web site (read: advertising dollars) not by price. I don’t know about other people, but price is the first sorting I care about by far.
By some bit of chance, I ended up on Trip Advisor. It has interface problems (e.g., clutter, poor contrast) and could use my help, but overall, it gave me what I wanted. Unbiased user reviews (nice!) as well as information about places to stay. I admit, paradoxically, that I had to do more work to get what I wanted, but in the end my satisfaction was very high. I ended up being directed to the web site of a small bed and breakfast, and I was able to securely make a reservation for my stay right through that site. It was not a perfect experience at all, but it was a good experience because of the user reviews, the honesty of the site, and the volume of useful information.
alt tags — “Yesterday, Elliott Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, announced a settlement where Ramada.com and Priceline.com have agreed to make their websites accessible to the blind.”
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“URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. URLinfo includes 101 tools.”
Very useful tool for internet geeks.
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“Based on the Firefox web browser by Mozilla, firefoxIE.net helps new users of the browser get up to speed fast and add features to make it a comfortable transition from Internet Explorer. Normally, you can’t find all of this information at one website.”
A bit geeky and technical, this is still a good resource.
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