Usability testing on websites (and mobile apps) is not always carried out adequately (or at all) by agencies and companies alike. The reasons for this include expense, time and lack of tools. Well usability testing need not be expensive because you can use a small number of test subjects, you only r[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
April 17th, 2010 - 3:37 pm § in Usability
10 usability papers you need to read
Tags: bad web site, Design, e-commerce sites, Forrester Research Inc, Internet technology, internet users;, Jakob Nielsen, Jakob Nielsen Usability, Responsiveness, search attempts, social networking sites;, technology developers, Tom Peters, Universal usability, Usability, Usability engineering, Usability Lab, usable online stores, User interface design, Visibility strategist, web design;, web designers, web site design, web site link structure, web site usability, Web usability, web usability testing 2 Comments
January 14th, 2010 - 2:12 pm § in Search engines, Social networks
Who do we need in search?
The San Francisco Chronicle has an article out this week entitled “Social science meets computer science at Yahoo!”. It’s about how Yahoo have been hiring “highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the world”.[...]
Tags: Behavioural sciences, Carol Bartz, Cognitive science, computing, Dave Snowden, Human-computer interaction, Interdisciplinary fields, Psychology, San Francisco Chronicle, search engine, search engine perspective psychologists, search results;, social search experience, Usability, Yahoo! Inc. No Comments
