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Why can’t people just create and maintain content? — “When I want information, I want information that is complete. Information that has been worked on - not once, but over and over again. I want information that has value which was not built in a day, not in a week, but built over a long […]

Google’s Use of Eye-Tracking — “Even on a simple level, shouldn’t the way someone looks at search results pages be different if the type of search was for different purposes? Say, for instance, a navigational search as opposed to an informational one, or a transactional one?”
Excellent points. Too many eye-tracking studies, and usability studies for […]

Extended Warranties are a Bad Deal for Customers — “Most of the time, the products are unlikely to break within the warranty period, or if they do, the cost of repairing them is not much more than the warranty itself. For products that do break often, all too frequently the warranty has an out that […]

A Wii Experience — “I have had a living room full of video games and systems for my entire adult life, and nothing has ever done what the Wii has done - fill a living room with laughing kids and adults who are all sitting around having a great time playing and watching the experience […]

Click-to-Call Can Boost Conversions – “Click-to-call services let users click a button and immediately speak with a customer service representative. Customers can either place a call over the computer using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology or request an immediate call back from the advertiser by entering their phone number. Unlike a toll-free phone number, click-to-call […]

Joe Dolson writes – “In a word, options. Building an accessible website doesn’t mean building a visual experience which will work perfectly for all audience. It doesn’t mean writing content that everybody will be able to read equally. What it means is creating an experience where users can alter their experience as they choose so […]

Brave Design — “Instead, Nintendo has attempted to re-design the gaming experience, opting for a controller which looks like a remote control but is motion sensitive, offering gamers a potentially simpler but at the same time more immersive experience. The games for the machine have also been designed to be more accessible, with a focus […]

The Usability Kit contains a binder with nearly 400 pages of information on exactly how to make your sites usable.
The first section covers how to design, structure and test usable web sites, and the second, the bulk of the kit, provides practical “get on with it” guidance with best practice sections, blueprints and pitfall flags.
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“Formatting your text to specific number of characters per line is an important part of writing articles for publication on the Internet. Most ezine publishers prefer articles to be formatted to 60 - 65 characters per line.”
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People and Processes Should be Important than Technology — “A poll of more than 4,000 information security professionals in more than 100 countries, carried out by IDC on behalf of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, found that organisations have traditionally overlooked the role of human behaviour in favour of trusting hardware and […]

Usability tweaks in the Series 3 Remote – “Again, maybe it’s just me and I realize these may sound like minor quibbles, but I definitely feel like the new remote isn’t as easy to use and I’m constantly looking down at the remote to make sure I’m hitting the right button, which is something I haven’t […]