A List Apart has a good write-up called Usability Testing Demystified Normal Modes has an eye-tracking heatmap gallery The University of Minnesota Web Services committee has published a phase 1 report on user discoverability Functioning Form asks whether social models affect contribution UXMatters asks whether UX can be Agile Brian Fling speaks at dConstruct 2009 [...]
Tag Archives: Usability
Library Usability Links 10/10/09
10-Oct-09Library Usability Links – 10/4/09
04-Oct-09Boxesandarrows has a fascinating article on implementing prototypes into design A List Apart discusses how to use site analytics for a bottom-up analysis More web data analysis from A List Apart, this time using site search data UXmatters gives a detailed analysis and tips for designing tables UXmatters discusses best practices for designing faceted search [...]
Library Usability Links 8/11/09
10-Aug-09Eye Tracking: Oneupweb has an intriguing eyetracking presentation up that discovers “areas of interest” in a few social web sites Think Eyetracking has an interesting write up of ca. 1967 “gaze plots” Virtual Hosting offers 23 lessons from eye tracking studies which could marked “citations needed” Library Usability: Usability Post has an article on improving [...]
Library Usability Links 7/8/09
08-Jul-09Marti Hearst’s new book Search User Interfaces is available for free on the web Design with Intent has a very interesting toolkit which boils down to several design patterns in poster format The same blog also has a post modeling different types of users: pinball, shortcut, and thoughtful users Tyner Blain has some tips for [...]
Library Usability Links 6/22/09
22-Jun-09Dawn Bastian Paschal is co-author of an interesting usability study on Colorado State’s digital collections in JAL 35 No. 3 Design Mind has an article on how designers can influence behavior ColoRotate has a fascinating take on the color picker A compelling account of Kristina Halvorson’s talk regarding Content Strategy Karen McGrane talks Content Strategy: [...]
Library Usability Links 6/9/09
09-Jun-09Lesson from American Airlines: “good design is necessarily the product of a heavily centralized structure” Bookmark: Interesting blog called Wireframes Lateral Action lines out the 9 ways users respond Smashing Magazine has some Useful Glossaries for Web Design Very funny: Dilbert on User Experience Smashing Magazine has an article on Modal Windows in Web Design [...]
Library Usability Links 5/12/09
12-May-09The IMLS Digital Collections and Content research group is designing a collections dashboard UsabilityPost has a list of 8 Characteristics of Successful User Interfaces UX Booth has a post on using color theory Simon Day shows the effects a small color change can have by analyzing heatmaps of the page Austin Govella describes six strategies [...]
Library Usability Links: 4/13/09
12-Apr-09Ron Hudson has an entertaining post about social proof including a great YouTube video Usability Counts posts a few questions to ask when interviewing a UX specialist Researchers questioned on the scope of UX – interesting results Aaron Louie has a good write-up on evolving design which touches on user personas Craig Tomlin publishes a [...]
Library Usability Links 4/2/09
02-Apr-09The color contrast check page has been updated. This is a great tool for checking the accessibility of any font / background color choices. New to me: 30 Days to a more accessible website: Dive into Accessibility Design Daily News has a list of recommendations for better linking using CSS Scobleizer weighs in on the [...]
Library Usability Links 3/25/09
25-Mar-09Great tongue-in-cheek advice from Boagworld: 10 things a designer would never tell you TechCrunch advises FaceBook to not give in to users Slate agrees with TechCrunch, saying users will get over it Smashing Magazine talks best practices with regard to breadcrumbs UXBooth has an intriguing beginners guide to information architecture Usability Counts reminds everybody to [...]