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“Astute readers of my previous work will know that I place a lot of importance in simplicity. This is part of the reason I have made certain technical decisions in my work, and this is the reason why I have written quite a lot about the importance of simplicity and usability. With these beliefs in […]

Dan Bricklin — “Instead of making you feel bad for “only” doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%.”
Read Dan’s posting… (It is about tagging, if you care.)

Fury.com — “I’ve noticed when watching people (as it is often my wont to do) that lots of people I know have default faces, the faces they show when they stand in the elevator going to lunch while trying to remember what they ate for lunch the day before, or reading a book, or stopped […]

Joel Spolsky says: “Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%.“
Not possible.

Digital web Magazine — “There are lots of reasons to use accessible design practices in every project. One is that it’s simply good design. Sites with consistent design and code and that adhere to Web standards are not only easier to maintain, they’re easier to use. Adherence to Web standards is not that hard, and […]

A List Apart — “Use cases provide a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of a project. They’re successfully employed by many software engineers as a way to capture the high-level objectives of an application during the initial phase of development. There’s no reason that web site developers shouldn’t also benefit from […]

“Usability practitioners are called on, not only to conduct many research studies during their careers, but also to read, review, and advise on usability studies that have been conducted and reported by others. The ability to critically review the research of others, and to help stakeholders weigh up the merits or shortcomings of research data […]

John Dvorak is writing about the Google Browser. Yawn. I wrote about a Google Browser back in 2001. (Kottke gave me credit. Thanks Jason!) In fact, in my Google 2.0 article I wrote about a Google client. In 2001 I was talking about Google searching for ways to create a new […]

Powazek — “But other people have already talked about all that, but what I find truly exciting about tags is that they’re all about browsing. And not the directory/library/annoyingly hidden kind of browsing that led to the death of the Yahoo Directory and the emergence of the single Google box - the fun kind of […]

Boxes and Arrows — “Assume that you are in charge of a development project and you have about $10,000 to spend on usability. What would you do? What is the best way to use the money? What will make the project a success? What is the right thing to do for the organization? What will […]

Hold Times from Hell (Monday)
The Case of the Techie Who Spoke No English (Tuesday)
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are coming soon.

MSNBC — “Only 1 in 6 users of Internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements, a new survey finds.”
Are you surprised by this?
Read the article…
(Thanks for the submission Daniel Szuc).