Design
Usability tip: Learn to write
Read my old post on working with errors.
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Beware of the usability Stockholm syndrome
The only way they to know if an application works well for users is to conduct usability testing. A usability test does not need to be expensive like having a laboratory where cameras are mounted in every angle and viewers are on the other side of a one-way mirror looking at monitors that track the […]
You are not your users
You were asked to design a website for a new client. As always, you prepared 5 samples for the customer to choose from. Come decisions time, the customer chose a design you think was not the best. It is the design you didn’t spend as much time as the others. You only spent 10 minutes […]
Top 10 signs your team has usability issues
Many of your users have complained about the complexity of your software product. As a very customer-oriented CEO (who isn’t?), you gather your team and ask them how to make the software more user friendly. Here are their suggestions.
10. We need a splash screen.
9. Shrink the fonts MORE so that we can put more contents […]
User-Friendly: The Seminar Series
Date
Nov 14, 2006
Time
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
The Mob
4th Floor
Market! Market!
Philippines
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Mouse? Keyboard? Both!!!
Is it user-friendly or not? I wish someone would send me one so I could try.
Check out more about this keyboard (or mouse) at the Combimouse website.
Thanks Sacha for the link.
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Web usability tip: 5 questions your homepage must answer
What is this?
What do you have here?
What can I do here?
Why should I be here - and not somewhere else?
Where do I start?
— Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Unfortunately, some websites would rather annoy their visitors by:
Showing a very large image of their logo and name in an unreadable font.
Instructing the visitors what the […]
Web usability tip: Degrade your website gracefully
How many times have you assumed that visitors to your website will use the same browser and technology as you have in your computer? You have spent countless hours perfecting the design, tweaking the CSS so it will appear flawless in IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and testing the website in various screen resolutions. Yet […]
Help us promote usability in the Philippines
A month from now, the usability folks around the world will celebrate the 2nd World Usability Day. Here in the Philippines, my buddy Regnard has organized the User Friendly seminar series. In a single day, there will be seminars in various campuses with topics on web, mobile applications, and consumer devices. Ain’t that cool!?
We have […]
YOSSN Website Usability Testing Report
(This report was submitted to YOSSN last February 2006. Since we’re too busy (and lazy) to check the website for updates, some of our comments may have already been addressed by YOSSN. I hope.)
(PDF, 1.1 MB, 28 pages)
Objectives
The objective of this report is to improve the Your One Stop Shopping Network (YOSSN) website, particularly […]
