I hadn’t seen these before – a bunch of templates that AD have on their site as part of their ‘Complete User Experience’ training. I’ve only taken a look at one or two and I don’t think they’re that great… but could be a good starting point if you’re looking to start building up your templates.
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This research “explored how many sites currently use breadcrumbs as a navigation element, what conventions have developed, and whether users notice, use, and understand what breadcrumbs are. “
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A great post by Darren Rowse about a blog that he used to love that has sold out and let him down… (and also of the relationship between a blog and it’s readers).
After years of being disparaged by the software dev. community, the waterfall methodology is back with a vengenance…. well, kind of. Don’t be bored by methodology, it’s actually funny!
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Bill Scott’s great article on mouse hovers – Use hover to create a more lightweight but engaging way to cue the user to hidden functionality. Use it as a way to provide just-in-time details. Use it to keep your page visually simpler …
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along the lines of the anti-pattern: learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design
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Livia Labate has a whole bunch of the IA Summit presentations recorded and ready for your listening pleasure on her blog.
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From the Online International Journal of Usability Studies … this is a bit too mathematical for me. I’ve never really been that into statistics… well, not to this degree. What about you? How important/valuable do you think stats are to usability testing?
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another from the Online International Journal of Usability Studies. I have to admit that I’m a little skeptical about the benefits of eyetracking… when thinking of bang for buck. It’s rarely something that I consider using (except when trying to convince someone they need to do something about usability on their site). What are your thoughts on eyetracking?
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Are you a trouble maker? Here’s a new sound that’s supposed to target under 25s (aka troublemakers, of course). Can you hear it? I can! Hoorah! I’m a troublemaker! via
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“Wondering how many people have been knocking about your feed just now? Check out this listing of the last 25 hits to your feed displayed by date, time and user agent.’ Very cool. I always wondered what was going on with RSS. Now I have one more set of stats to obsess over ;)
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to celebrate his 1000th blog post, Kevin Lim is having a meme contest – find your most popular blog post, blog the story behind the post, and tag it ‘bestblogforward’ and Kevin might have a prize for you! I’m going to get to this on the weekend if I have a moment.
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Have you used Lucid Spec? What did you think? I’m in the process of playing around with a few different types of software to help make my work easier/more enjoyable/more effective.
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continuing my slightly nervous foray into usability for opensource projects I signed up here today…. not sure how active it is … further investigation pending
“It’s a craft that takes its wisdom from science, its inspiration from art and the design disciplines, its possibilities and limitations from software technology and corporate culture, and its directions – ideally – from the users.”
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here’s one for starters: “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose”
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SEO people love inline linking, but do users? An interesting read :)
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