November 2009
October 2009
10 Qualitative Tools to Improve Your Website | Tools | instantShift
by dzc
compilation of some of the best qualitative tools out there, all of which you can start using to improve your website today. These tools will help you understand how users interact with your site and, most importantly, why they act the way that they do.
Usability Guidelines: Web Design for Users With Disabilities
by Monique & 4 others
75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology
IntuitionHQ, make website usability testing part of every website project
by ycc2106
Create tests like: Click where you think will lead you to... and ask ppl to do the test. Service will record the click and show them in a heatmap
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Designing Firefox 3.2
by sbrothier
In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we’d do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was “Tabs”. Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: “Forget tabs!”
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
Tests Document Readability And Improve It
by ycc2106
Readability is key to accessibility. It is hard to test, however. This online took evaluates text based on different reading scales and also suggests which complex sentences to take another look at. Great for those writers who commonly write just a little too complex.
Usabilla - Transparent Usability - Visual Feedback
by ycc2106 & 2 others
allows you to collect visual feedback from your website in five minutes. Offering a transparent approach to visual feedback, this service is another tool that could be useful in testing.
25-point Website Usability Checklist
by simon_bricolo & 1 other
Use this simple, 25-point checklist to assess critical website usability issues. Includes free download (1-page PDF).
Official Google Blog: The evolution of Gmail labels
by sbrothier & 1 other
I love labels in Gmail. Most email programs use folders, which only let me put mail in one place at a time. With labels, I can organize mail in multiple ways. Combined with filters to automatically label incoming messages, Gmail offers powerful ways to organize email.
