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UsableWorld — “This blog is about my personal goal, as a psychologist, to improve people’s lives through better design and use of technology.”
A personal blog about “real” usability. Smashing!

Little did I know what I started when I posted about HODGKINS IL on WebWord…
63 responses thus far!
 

“The focus of your blog should be decided before your first post and then committed to. Random blog entries about a melee of topics might work for a personal blog read by friends and family, but is not a good approach for a serious, professional blog. The lifeblood of any blog is in its loyal […]

“So let’s get right to it: software EULA’s are broken. They’re unusable. And not just for the reasons you might think. Pretty much everything about the EULA experience is horribly, horribly wrong.”
Unusable EULAs

“This article discusses users’ visual scan paths of web pages containing text and/or pictures while conducting browsing and searching tasks. User performance on three usability tasks on an e-commerce website is described. Results show that users follow a fairly uniform scan path when browsing through pictures, and a more random path while specifically searching through […]

“The results from this study suggest there is a relationship between typeface selection and the reader’s perception of an email.”
“The appropriateness of the typeface also affected the perception of the email author in that the email using Gigi created a perception of an author who is less professional, less trustworthy, and less mature.”
“When choosing a […]

The great frontier in Human-Computer Interface design is the Brain-Computer Interface. 
Here’s some evidence of this shift: Thought-Controlled Computers.
Tell me I’m wrong and why.  ;-)

Spend some time some other place today…
UsableMarkets
Fusability.com
debabblog
Enjoy!

Registration - Last chance for first impressions (Gerry Gaffney: Apogee) — “We often see registration processes that are designed to get the maximum amount of information. In a social setting, this is like being a person who is ‘only interested in what they can get’. If marketing or sales requirements have prompted you to ask […]

Six techniques for advocating design in your organization (Liya Zheng: Apogee)– “Changing a company’s product development process is not something we can do alone. The key to our success is in effectively collaborating with people from different perspectives: marketing, sales, development and other business entities in our companies.”