posts tagged with ‘usability’
10 usability related websites waiting for your guest post
Since a few weeks now I’m thinking of sending some of my soon-to-be-finished articles to other blogs, hopefully to be published as guest posts. Because my main interest lies in user-centered design, I went through my bookmarks looking for websites which seemed to fit my articles. The result is a list of websites, interested in contributions from other people, all writing about user-centered design.
5 quick and easy ways to improve your website’s usability
The ultimate goal of usability tests is to obtain the necessary information which will give you the possibility to make an interface so simple and intuitive in use that people can work with it without thinking. People who navigate through your application shouldn’t be spending too much time figuring out the different functionalities of it.
In this article I show you how to discover the most prominent interface problems of your website by following five simple tips. Remember: getting to know the problem is only half the work, you still need to interpret the results, make the improvements and test again.
User testing and thirteen ways of selling a book
It is commonly known that user testing (and evalutation) should start throughout the early stages of development of a website. It is cost-effective when these tests are conducted in the right point of development but that doesn’t mean you should stop testing once the website goes online.
Tagclouds, useful or just keyword spam?
It is not because I expect a huge increasement of tagcloud implementations, but before you even consider doing so you could read this blogpost. Tagging is not just about giving an article some random keywords.
Fading navigation on the Google homepage
As you may well be aware of, testing and optimizing your webpages is incredibly important to ensure a good usability and performance. Google certainly is not an exception and is testing some new features, trying to improve the interface to a more efficient, simpler and intuitive search experience. Wonder how they did it?
