Usability
Oz-IA ran over the weekend in Sydney and it was a fantastic event. There were some really interesting presentations, and while I didn’t get to all of them, without doubt the most interesting for me... Read More
Gee, aren’t floors great? All flat and clean and smooth, they do a faultless job of preventing us from plunging headlong into the voids beneath them — a particularly useful trick in... Read More
You know what, I really hate CAPTCHA. The other day I was speculatively signing up for a Facebook account (I’m not particularly interested in being on Facebook, I just wanted to have a nose... Read More
I wouldn’t call myself a conference junkie by any means, I’d be lucky to attend one or two a year. And I certainly don’t think of myself as the eternal student, but when I gave it... Read More
As AJAX has come into the spotlight over the past few years, many web developers have been creating some great applications that handle data more like a desktop application. However, much of the... Read More
Like it or hate it, Twitter has caused a stir in the online social networking space. In a nut shell, Twitter allows users to pump out infinite amounts of (usually) ego-driven noise to the intarweb... Read More
I’m experimenting with Tumblr and Jaiku at the moment, and I have an idea that by combining them, I’m going to create a really useful ‘Mash App’ for my User Focus class at SIT next term.... Read More
Now this is an article that grabbed my attention straight away! Often when I think about web usability and usability heuristics I think about it from a commercial perspective. I think about my... Read More
On the Ixd Discussion List at the moment there’s a discussion being held about the difference between the role of the interaction designer (often written as IxD or IaD) and usability... Read More
I often read comments across various usability and interaction design mail lists discussing the pro’s and con’s of user testing. One argument that seems to come up again and again is the impact... Read More
Why you should not use checkboxes combined with autopostback.Read More
Often when clients have a relatively low budget for usability testing, or a short amount of time in which to conduct it, an ‘expert’ or an ‘heuristic’ review will be run by an experienced... Read More
Something I’ve become aware of lately is the near extinction of the visited link state. In a recent comparative review of six industry-related government websites, only one site displayed visited... Read More
If there’s one thing that’s caught my attention in the past six months, it’s an increase in the variety of web roles incorporating usability. I’ve noticed this across a number of areas: job... Read More
