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Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 05 4th, 2009 | No Comments | 881 views

Expert usability review vs. usability testing

One question we’re often asked is which method is best: usability testing or expert usability reviews? Well, if they were sports cars, expert usability reviews might be a Porsche (pretty decent car and better than no car at all), but usability testing would be in a different league, namely Formula...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 05 4th, 2009 | No Comments | 658 views

Filter & sort: Improving ecommerce product findability

On both ecommerce and shopping comparison sites, users can find products in two different ways: searching and browsing. Searching obviously means using the site search whilst browsing involves drilling down through the categories provided by the website. Regardless of which method is used, users will...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 04 29th, 2009 | No Comments | 1,132 views

Eye tracking: Eye candy vs. I can do

Eye tracking has been around for decades but has only become commercially available over the past few years. It’s been heralded as the next big thing in user research, ‘the closest thing to mind reading’! There’s also been a bit of a backlash against eye tracking recently. Jarred...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 04 29th, 2009 | No Comments | 1,071 views

10 ways to orientate users on your site

Imagine you’re driving along and due to a road closure you have to follow those conspicuous yellow detour signs. You’re now on an unfamiliar road, but because of the signs you confidently proceed, comfortable in trusting the arrows to tell you where you need to go. Then there’s a roundabout...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 04 27th, 2009 | No Comments | 936 views

Website aesthetics - what has it got to do with usability?

When you choose an apple from a pile, what do you look for? You’ll find a lot of reasons are aesthetic - whether it’s shiny, it’s colour, it’s shape… How we choose what to buy is a key question that should be asked when designing an ecommerce website. While we all like to...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 03 13th, 2009 | No Comments | 1,067 views

Usability, Information Architecture & Design Books

Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen (Author) Topics covered: Cross-platform design, response time considerations, writing for the Web, multimedia implementation, navigation strategies, search boxes, corporate intranet design, accessibility for disabled users, international considerations, and future...

Posted by De Web Times in Usability on 02 16th, 2009 | No Comments | 1,024 views

Usability

Usability From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind...

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