Archive for July, 2006

Business Week: Risky Business, Risky Words

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

In the 12-June-2006 edition of Business Week there is a neat little blurb about Professor Feng Li. He’s counted up the number of times that words like “risk” and “risky” and “uncertain” show up in 34,180 annual reports from 1993 through 2004. Then he looked at those numbers in comparison with the previous year.
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CEOs and Usability

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

“Talking to a CEO about usability can be wonderful or terrifying. The difference between raging success and total failure comes down to understanding exactly what the CEO needs to know and then adjusting your usability message to fit. This article explains how to understand various contexts, and in turn, how to position your usability message.” […]

A Usability Review of InvestorGeeks.com

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

“John S. Rhodes navigates through InvestorGeeks.com using screen capture video. He discovers that InvestorGeeks strategically combines a solid user experience with future business direction.”

25 minutes Hands on and real world.
37MB Smooth video with a human touch.
Instant download Entertaining and practical.
Only $5 About the price of a good mug of cold beer.

Don’t miss this report…
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New WebWord Home Page Preview

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

I’ve been quiet on WebWord recently. My apologies! But, I been extremely busy. I’ve been working on more material for UX Reports but also the new WebWord home page, as you can see above. (!) I’ve also been working with Daniel Szuc on the next article for Apogee. It’ll be published later this week.