Recruiting Test Participants for Usability Studies
“Many people believe in user testing, but in real design projects, not much testing takes place.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
All posts from
January 2003
Visualisation in the 20th Century
“The 20th century has seen many advances in different fields. Visualisation hasn’t been immune to these changes that paved the way to its transformation into Information Visualisation in the two decades that preceded the new millennium.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)
Information Mapping
“Built into the human brain is a high-performance pattern recognition engine, and nothing can feed that engine data faster than maps can.” (Jon Udell)
The User Experience of Government Online Recommendations for a Citizen-Centric Future
“This report presents the results of an independent study into the waypeople interact with government online and the way they would like to interact with government online in future.” (The Hiser Group) – courtesy of webword
Usability Guru
“Jakob Nielsen is the world famous expert on web and computer usability.” (Victor Keegan – The Guardian)
Future of Information Architecture
“This survey is part of an effort to identify important trends and possible futures for information architecture.” (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture)
UX Roles & Titles: Trend or Profession?
“I recently embarked on a non-scientific study to aid in the formulation of my thoughts on the current and future User Experience Design professions in the Web space and the roles and titles that fall within.” (Challis Hodge – UXblog)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification
“(…) a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.” (W3C)
Designing for the Multiple Personalities of Users
Underestimation is a two-way street.
Printing the Web
“Despite predictions to the contrary, it doesn’t seem that the advent of networked information sharing has reduced human consumption of paper.” (James Ka lbach – Boxes and Arrows)
Top 5-25 UX Position Titles and Job Roles
(as manipulated by Lou) (Louis Rosenfeld)
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
First edition (Feb. 1998) – full online version (Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville) – courtesy of elegant hack
Interface Design as a Life or Death Proposition
“In safety-critical systems, a thorough understanding of user needs and goals helps to establish workflows, environments, and behaviors that need to be supported.” (Doug LeMoine – Cooper) – courtesy of cognitive architects
Scientific Visualization and Information Architecture
“Design of line graphs, contour and pseudocolor plots, and a wide variety of other user-generated graphics.” (John P. Boyd – University of Michigan) – courtesy of tremendo
Questions Information Architects Ask
“These might be helpful if you’re preparing an IA seminar yourself, or, if nothing else, they’re an interesting snapshot of what folks were interested in during late 2002.” (Louis Rosenfeld)
Usability of Open Source Software
“In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open source development influence usability.” (David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale – First Monday 8.1)
Return on Investment for Usability
“Development projects should spend 10% of their budget on usability. Following a usability redesign, websites increase usability by 135% on average; intranets improve slightly less.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Book Review of ‘The Elements of User Experience’
“Get this book. Read it. Understand it. Apply it. You’ll be a better user experience designer because of it.” (John Rhodes – WebWord)
Book Review of ‘Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web’
“(…) it is a non-intimidating introduction to a field that has become an integral part of effective Web design.” (James McNally – Digital Web Magazine)
Alan Newell Assesses HCI and the Health of the Discipline
“Because the major problems about disciplines is understanding what the other people’s constraints and motivations are. Psychology is completely different from computer science, because a psychologist wants to understand the world and a computer scientist wants to change it.” (Ann Light – Usability News)