Usability test software tool: Excel data logger
his spreadsheet allows you to measure task completion rates, analyse questionnaire data, and summarise participant comments. It even includes a timer so you can measure time-on-task. The spreadsheet is highly customisable.
(tags: research resource templates usability)

Viewing Facility, Focus Group Facilities, Market Research Recruitment
Welcome to a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference guide [...]

So, earlier we were talking about whether you can or should attempt to make qualitative research more scientific, and that there are three ways you might go about doing this, being to:

Use a relatively large sample size (deconstructed in Part One)

Ensure that your test environment doesn’t change (which we’ll talk about now)
Ensure that your test [...]

If you’re into qualitative research at all, it wouldn’t have taken long before you had someone ask you about the statistical significance of your research and how you could back your findings with such a small sample size, or to find others out there trying to make qualitative research look more scientific by trying to [...]

Link Alert :: Firefox Add-ons
Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link… A great way to avoid accidentally clicking on a mailto link disguised as a hyperlink. Although, it would be much nicer if you just stopped designing it this way people…
(tags: extensions firefox mailto)

Now that we’re all super excited about social media, and every man and his dog wants to do *something* to do with social networking, it seems a pertinent time to ask… but why?
Why does the world need your product or service to include ’something social’? Why on earth would you want to create a *new* [...]

Two things you need to know today.
dConstruct (Brighton, UK) tickets go on sale tomorrow (10 July). They sell out fast. You don’t want to miss out - especially this year with such a great line up on the theme of designing the user experience.
UX Week (Washington DC) also looks amazing. Tickets are on sale for [...]

Waterfall model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The waterfall model is a sequential software development model (a process for the creation of software) in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall)
(tags: waterfall methodology)

Development Methodologies Compared
Why different projects require different development methodologies.
(tags: waterfall washingmachine methodology)

Waterfall Methodology: There’s no such thing!
I don’t recall when [...]

Design View / Andy Rutledge - quiet structure
One of the basic, overriding elements featured in CNN’s new website design and layout is something I like to call quiet structure. Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the l
(tags: layout interactiondesign webdesign)

TED | Talks | Dan Gilbert: [...]

» 5 Reasons To Break Projects Down
As a freelancer looking to manage time, make customers happy, and keep motivated, the benefits of breaking a project into smaller pieces are definitely worth another look.
(tags: projectmanagement methodology agiledesign washingmachine)

Hi Stu, you don’t know me but … big hug! xxx | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
why do my email correspondents so often conclude “take care”, when they don’t really care if a double-decker bus kills me on the way home? The seeming care contains a lack of respect which is infuriating.
(tags: intimacy socialnetwork community [...]