Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties

From Juicy Studio, although the article focuses on writing for people with “Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties”, it could just as well have been for “the typical stressed web-user”. Many of the tips has to do with making your site as accessible as possible for anyone stressed out of their wits and trying to find…… Continue reading Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties

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Free beer for usability

Interesting idea: Café testing The basic idea behind café testing is to situate yourself at a café, put up a sign to attract participants, and test the people that come to you. Because cafes appeal to a wide variety of individuals, and people at a café often have time to spare, café testing can be…… Continue reading Free beer for usability

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Google Village: Who are you optimizing your site for?

A very good article about Google and optimizing for it and other search engines. Might be basic for some web developers, but it covers the basics of optimizing your site for your users and the search engines. Google Village: Who are you optimizing your site for?

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Bad service in the US too

John Dowdell has experienced the spreading bad service of a big shop when doing his Mac shopping at CompUSA. He writes that he so far has visited the store twice – in total spending 1 hour and 15 minutes to get the wrong RAM for his iBook. These kind of shopping experiences are becoming all…… Continue reading Bad service in the US too

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Why to not _blank

Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target=”_blank”> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the…… Continue reading Why to not _blank

Jakob Nielsen wants you to Flash him

Jakob is looking for examples of Flash-Based Applications and tools for user testing. So if you have a Flash based tool, or you know of good Flash based tools that Jakob should usability test, then you can contact Hoa Loranger at Nielsen Norman Group

The Flash usability discussion continues

John writes about a usability discussion that is going on at the CHI-WEB mailinglist. Involving, amongst others – Donald A. Norman of Nielsen Norman Group and Chris MacGregor of Flazoom.com. Check out the postings so far Donald A. Norman (from Nielsen Norman Group):That is precisely backwards. The U-Turn, if there was one, was at Macromedia.…… Continue reading The Flash usability discussion continues

Follow up: Nielsen to make “best practices” document for rich internet applications in SWF

Chris MacGregor has written a very good reply to Jakob’s latest addition to his “Flash 99% Bad” paper. You did notice that he has added text to it now, text that I am sure wasn’t added because of the job he now has gotten for Macromedia, after all – he is a serious researcher and…… Continue reading Follow up: Nielsen to make “best practices” document for rich internet applications in SWF