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247-Friendly: Thorough usability checklist for web designers

July 9th, 2009 Mitch Brisebois 3 comments
california247

Our friends at User Focus in London have just published a really useful set of usability guidelines for web app designers. Although many of the guidelines may now be common practice, it's great to see them all in one package. If your company doesn't do in-house usability, this checklist is ideal for developers ...

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“Human Factors” – have you heard of it?

November 24th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

Yeesh - technically that's one of the names for my discipline... It's also been Ergonomics, Usability Engineer, UI guy, GUI designer, Usability Designer, Software Ergonomics... arg the list goes on. One of the worst is Human Factors. For years I was a member and TG exec of the Human Factors and Ergonomics ...

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Retro 1993: Bill Gates Demands Better Usability

July 2nd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

This is a wonderful email uncovered by Seattle PI and Usability News... a usability related rant from Bill. “I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing. So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? ...

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Car Websites: Who has the best UX?

August 4th, 2007 Jobe Roberts 1 comment
Ford.ca

Here's a quick user experience (UX) review for some of the best and worse car websites. Can you tell which ones have a good UX? This review covers only Canadian websites. First on the list are the fellows who brought us the wonderful assembly line: Ford.ca is a relatively clean and straight forward site. ...

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Is your flight mode turned on, or are you just glad to see me???

February 22nd, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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This is a great example of bad UI impacting support costs. Unbeknownst to me, my IPAQ 6500 turned on its flight mode. That's when the radio is turned off, but the device still works as a pda. My IPAQ has a habit of doing things on its own. Unfortunately there's no ...

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