“Usability” Archive
Links in Headings Are Okay
Referring to recent discussion, a fresh W3C list question by John, and at the same time crisping up a 2004 poll by Mike: Links in headlines are semantically legitimate and thus generally fine. The reasoning behind this is summarized quite quickly …
Conducting a Guerrilla Usability Test, Part I
It’s time for usability testing again. I plan to retest several projects, including this site as well as UITest.com, and I want to share and discuss the process of this “guerrilla testing” with you. On hand, the protocol of part I, encouraging criticism and participation.
Recent Relaunches: ZDFmediathek and Stiftung Warentest
Something about two notable redesigns and relaunches: On the one hand, the new multimedia appearance of German broadcasting company ZDF, and on the other hand, the new website of the independent testing institution “Stiftung Warentest”.
7 Additional Ways to Focus on Users
“Smashing Magazine” just published my article on “20 (Alternate) Ways to Focus on Users”, and not only may I point that out but even quickly extend it with a few additional methods. A rash bonus level, so to speak.
Are You a Web Designer or a Web Decorator?
This bothers me for a long time yet, it came up when I thought about art and design, and it broke out when Roger recently asked whether we are designers or developers: Our industry is very creative in coming up with new and/or weird job titles, but …
Door Usability, Part 27
Yet another quick usability alert, this time featuring doors from a bank in Mainz. Let’s play a game: You’re locked in the building, so get out as fast as you possibly can …
A Plea for Better Software: Provide Auto-Save
Applications do rarely automatically and/or periodically save users’ work and thus fail to prevent unnecessary, frustrating, and expensive work and information losses. Since this isn’t just a but a critical problem, we need to encourage application developers or their “masterminds”, respectively, …
35 Designers x 5 Questions x 1 Complainer
My endless queue of documents I need or want to read finally brought up a relatively popular interview mashup on Smashing Magazine (led by my really valued peers Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz), 35 Designers × 5 Questions …
Coburger Designtage: “Function Is an Excuse”
Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit the “19th Coburger Designtage” (May 15-20, Coburg). I neither have enough health (still feeling “medium great”), nor time, nor pictures to write a full report, but I want to share two things I noted. Questionable things, right …
Heading webinale 07 … Not
I just canceled my session on the webinale 07 due to severe allergic reactions (at full tilt since Friday), probably even including a cold that flew under the radar. I don’t feel fine, and I can hardly speak. Here’s the old plan and the post I scheduled for today, for the sake of completeness …
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