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This new feature for Zotero will come in use for Fred's grant.

This new feature for Zotero will come in use for Fred's grant.

Group access extension: JUGA is Joomla component that allows you additional control over what content is available to which users. It is NOT A HACK (like JACL); JUGA installs and uninstalls *easily* as a component. To activate/de-activate it, install and publish/unpublish the JUGA Mambot. After installing JUGA, merely synchronize it's table with your site's components and content. Then, define which items each group has access to. After assigning users to JUGA groups, activate the Mambot and voila!

I really like Morville's user experience honeycomb which goes beyond usability to include usefulness, credibility, findability, accessibility, etc.

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

User research finds significant deficiencies in non-profit organizations' website content, which often fails to provide the info people need to make donation decisions.

A site where users report site's as potentially inaccessible and everyone can vote yes or no on accessibility. Interesting concept that may help increase accountability.

Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.

More on ornamental images and the myth that breaking up text with images increases usability.

Nir Eyal's slides on how to build habit-forming products. Really interesting talk about the psychological aspects of design and how to scratch our users' itches.

A good article with several useful RSS readers. Most of them rely on the user having a Google reader account already setup.

In this blog post by a Microsoft developer, there are examples of scrolling on a single webpage by moving left to right (vs. scrolling up and down). Also, some main navigational buttons and menus are now on the RIGHT side of the layout instead of the long-used left side of the layout location for these elements. I believe this is an example of the influence of touch screens on tablets, phones, and computers affecting the long held paradigm of left side menu navigation. The gesture navigation of touch screens is making another mark on design and layouts.

Insight into user's issues regarding pay vs free content. I thought this was a good article that explained the future direction in which media providers have to look. Not everything can be free.

A nicer way to book time off. Timetastic is a simple online staff holiday and staff leave planner. Your first 3 users are FREE. Really neat time-off management application.

For you iPhoners out there.

This company was created by UT students. They use the Oculus to provide accessibility to Users.