Jan 08, 2009

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Aug 05, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Please use this page to vote for your favorite design in the socialmedian iphone design contest. The only way to vote in this contest is by leaving a comment from a legit member of socialmedian on this page with your preferred choice of design 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. (We will not count any fake signups for socialmedi (Read More)

Jul 25, 2008

ReadWriteWeb With the news coming out of F8 this week, it was hard to not get caught up in the enthusiasm for Facebook Connect, the new authentication methodology which will allow you to login to third-party web sites using your Facebook ID and port your friend graph from Facebook with you. On the one hand, you have to admit this is rev (Read More)

Jul 16, 2008

social|median Following on our very successful 1st socialmedian design contest, we are announcing today details for the 2nd socialmedian design contest:  design the socialmedian iphone app! Win $1000.00 first prize + a free iphone3G$500 2nd prize + a free iphone3G*** An iphone app is one of the top recent socialmedian alpha user requests (Read More)

Jul 05, 2008

Usability In The News Don Norman on user interface design ..."By the 1990s, user-friendliness had become so ubiquitous in software development that even the fictional programmers in Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs named their two pet hamsters Look and Feel. Although Coupland was confident his readers would get the joke, not all system-buildi (Read More)

Jul 07, 2008

Usability In The News Tips for conducting user interviews ..."Interviewing is an artful skill that is at the core of a wide variety of research methods in user-centered design, including stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing, and focus groups. Consequently, a researcher’s skill in conducting interviews has a direct impact (Read More)

Jul 07, 2008

Usability In The News Tips for the new UX manager ..."In my last column, I suggested that being a manager of UX is no better—and no worse—than being a great designer or user researcher, but the roles are very different. In fact, as the book The First 90 Days [1] points out, the skills that make you successful as an individual contributor are not (Read More)

Jul 07, 2008

E-consultancy - Internet Marketing - News, Blog and Press Releases The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), the independent watchdog of social care services in England, has carried out a re-design of its website home page and service directory to enhance user experience. The re-design, a result of extensive usability testing by optimum.web, the usability and... (Read More)

Jul 08, 2008

UsabilityNews: News (full) By Tom EspinerMobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester. The typing and pointing errors on PCs that are experienced by motor-impaired users are very similar to the mistakes made by mobile-device users (Read More)

Jul 09, 2008

Usability In The News The benefits of user friendly design ..."The difference between great vs. poor user interface design can be hard to quantify. Similar to the supposed difference between art and pornography — you know it when you see it.You certainly can’t tell which is a better designed product simply by looking at a list of their features. (Read More)

Jul 11, 2008

Usability In The News Reviewing several types of bad UI ..."When Gruber first linked the TripLog/1040 UI by Stevens Creek, I wasn’t kind either. Bright colors, controls seemingly placed at random. It was the opposite of what designers strive for in our circles. A mess. Soon the Flickr page was a schoolyard of insults. And then something interest (Read More)

Jul 13, 2008

Usability In The News LukW on sign-up forms ..."Though, I've long advocated that Sign-Up Forms Must Die, for now they remain a staple of online life. Recently Smashing Magazine surveyed the landscape of sign-up forms by looking at patterns in 100 popular Web destinations and their registration forms . The data they extracted is a catalog of exis (Read More)

Jul 14, 2008

UsabilityNews: News (full) By Michael KrigsmanMany IT failures are ultimately rooted in negative organizational culture and related political dynamics. For example, failures can arise when critical information is not shared across internal corporate boundaries (or even among members of a single team). Solving these problems can be difficult because c (Read More)

Jul 14, 2008

Digg While many new iPhone 3G owners have griped that the device's occasionally yellowish hue is evidence of a defect, Apple has now gone on record to say that the tint is a deliberate choice to improve overall usability. (Read More)

Jul 16, 2008

Usability In The News Part 2 of creating good search pages ..."Creating an effective search results page takes hard work. In the first installment of this article, I introduced how designers need to understand the users' tasks and ensure every result delivers great scent. In this installment, I'll elaborate on the specific principles of the scen (Read More)

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