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Joshua Yeidel

iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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usability apple ipad nielsen

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 10 May 10
     
    Preliminary usability studies of the iPad show some UI problems in the first generation of apps. Overadoption of the iPhone UI raises one set of issues; avoidance of some standard Web concepts raises others. Many content providers are hoping that their iPad apps will capture users more than Web sites do; that will remain to be seen.
Joshua Yeidel

Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 24 Aug 09
     
    Twitter for Business, Text as UI: "A few days ago, I posted the announcement of our next usability conferences to Nielsen Norman Group's timeline on Twitter (@NNgroup). I don't have all the guidelines for stream-based postings yet, because we're still conducting usability studies (particularly of B2B users, like my audience). But, based on the user sessions I've observed already, I put this posting through 5 rounds of iterative design."
Gary Brown

Sincerity in evaluation - highlights and lowlights « Genuine Evaluation - 3 views

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shared by Gary Brown on 04 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Principles of Genuine Evaluation When we set out to explore the notion of ‘Genuine Evaluation’, we identified 5 important aspects of it: VALUE-BASED -transparent and defensible values (criteria of merit and worth and standards of performance) EMPIRICAL – credible evidence about what has happened and what has caused this, USABLE – reported in such a way that it can be understood and used by those who can and should use it (which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s used or used well, of course) SINCERE – a commitment by those commissioning evaluation to respond to information about both success and failure (those doing evaluation can influence this but not control it) HUMBLE – acknowledges its limitations From now until the end of the year, we’re looking at each of these principles and collecting some of the highlights and lowlights  from 2010 (and previously).
  • Sincerity of evaluation is something that is often not talked about in evaluation reports, scholarly papers, or formal presentations, only discussed in the corridors and bars afterwards.  And yet it poses perhaps the greatest threat to the success of individual evaluations and to the whole enterprise of evaluation.
Joshua Yeidel

Browsealoud - accessibility software, text to speech software, screen reader, dyslexia,... - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 09 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.
  • Browsealoud makes using the Internet easier for people who have: Low literacy and reading skills English as a second language Dyslexia Mild visual impairments
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Jan 09
     
    Browsealoud makes using the Internet easier for people who have: * Low literacy and reading skills * English as a second language * Dyslexia * Mild visual impairments Browsealoud is _not_ a replacement for a screen reader, but is convenient for some classes of users. As critical learning functions move increasingly online, we will need to know about this kind of affordance.
Joshua Yeidel

It's Not Just Usability - Joel on Software - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 11 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Apr 09
     
    Joel Spolsky, guru of real-world software development, on social software -- in 2004 (pre-Facebook)! It turns out that non-features can be crucial...
  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Apr 09
     
    "My goal today is to talk about the next level of software design issues, after you've got the UI right: designing the social interface..."
Peggy Collins

Write for Reuse (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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writing for web usability

shared by Peggy Collins on 14 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 14 Apr 09
     
    Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can't predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text.
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