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Newman Lanier

247 web usability guidelines - 0 views

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    "247 web usability guidelines Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context - this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review."
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    an oldie... no, a classic and classics never go out of style.
Newman Lanier

User-Centered Design | Usability.gov - 0 views

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    Usability.gov's "What is User-Centered Design" page
Newman Lanier

Guess What?!? Task Design is Critically Important! - A hard-learned lesson » ... - 0 views

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    "Hey Spool, Mike and Steve, Nice post! Krug's Rocket Surgery book where I learned about developing good tasks. Basically, he says to test the participants interaction with the site not their ability to read. "buy a bookcase" tests the participants ability to read and, in this case search. That's not bad! It gets at the usability / mechanical functionality of a site. But, you don't need to go through the trouble to recruit users to collect this type of data. Anyone hanging around the hallway will do. However, if you want to dig down to the other parts of the experience (findable, desirable, Morville's honeycomb types), then a more authentic, believable, contextual task is important. By changing the directive command - "Find a bookcase" - to a more contextual based question - "How would you do that?" - you were able to get a different and possibly more insightful / actionable result. As a matter of fact, from now on, I'm using this format for all my user tests. Done and Done, Mr. Spool. @Mike - (A/B) test your (user) test? I smell recursion and an out of memory error. :) cheers! newman"
Newman Lanier

Usability Counts: Most Tweeted Articles on the Blog - 0 views

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    Insights into what is popular in UX
Newman Lanier

6 Proportions to Compare when Improving the User Experience: Measuring Usability - 0 views

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    Jeff Sauro is a boss.
Newman Lanier

Whitney Quesenbery Interview | Useful Usability - 0 views

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    "Storytelling for User Experience,"
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    Nice interview with a UX writer and practitioner by Craig Tomlin
Newman Lanier

Visual Design and Usability Yellow Brick Road | UX Magazine - 0 views

  • users are not able to learn and trust its behavior and meaning.
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      This is key. Designers gain this trust by not violating the rules they create. Sometimes these rules - or Grammar, as I like to call it - are codified and rigid. Everyone knows them and the designers use them. But, other times, like creating the 'yellow brick road', the designer makes them up and offers it to the user.
  • This allows the color to come to the foreground and dominate the composition with its strength rather than its abundance.
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  • Assign a behavior to type elements and be consistent.
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      'Assign a behavior to type elements' - I'm not exactly clear on this. I understand about limiting number of fonts and text style. I assume behavior is something like - H1s do this. This font is for description. That font is for system messages. And, this font is for the buy process - yellow brick road / Critical path. Correct?
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    Yellow brick road' is like highlighting what we call the critical path with color. Check document for notes
Newman Lanier

usability_guidelines.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    The US government web design and usability guidelines - HUGE book in PDF format with many guideline explained in a concise format. It's actually pretty good. I wish it was in a better format - PDF isn't the most... um, whats the word I'm looking for - USABLE format. just sayin
Newman Lanier

Getting From User Stories to UX | JamieClouting.co.uk - 0 views

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    "Recently I wrote about User Stories and how card based software development can help identify 'clear, brief descriptions of functionality as described from the perspective of a user'. Today I want to look at how User Stories or 'Stories' can impact the user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX) of a software product."
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    A good perspective on UX methods from an 'Agile' guy
Newman Lanier

Interaction Design Association - Homepage | IxDA - 0 views

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    "We are a global network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design. With the help of more than 20,000 members since 2004, the IxDA network provides an online forum for the discussion of interaction design issues and other opportunities and platforms for people who are passionate about interaction design to gather and advance the discipline. "
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    Interaction design association
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