1. Using Old School Web Design
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... usability. And why not? After all, web design has much in common with other types of design, like product design, fashion, or architecture. Each of these trades either follows or creates trends in the ...

2. Usability Testing: Using Eye-Tracking Software
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Using eye tracking to understand the usability of user interfaces is something that's been around for a few years now, but it is still being understood by researchers. Through specialized eye tracking ...

3. Web Design: Font and Page Size
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

I want to spend some time on a series of articles on web design usability practices. I call this series, the HTML Museum. I hope to update it with articles that address past web design practices and why ...

4. Why You Should Edit Your Information
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Attention: Chickens are Being Fed Vegetarians!!! I don't think much more needs to be said about the graphic (see figure 1). Although this label is simply funny, this problem could be serious when it pertains ...

5. How to Use Metaphors in Web Site Design
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... not only add to the design of the site, but the add to the usability of it as well.       For technical, professional and business communication help in the Las Cruces, NM area, visit Lanier Infomedia.  ...

6. Universal Usability and Culture
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

I read an article the other day that discussed the possibility of universal usability. However, usability is not universal, especially when it comes to documents. Cultural factors play a huge part in how ...

7. Minimum Functionality for Increased Usability
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

I want to begin a discussion of minimum functionality for maximum usability, or mf = mu. It is obvious that the simpler an item, the more usable it should be. For example, think of the simplist writing ...

8. Usability Testing: Task-based Testing
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Task-based usability tests are perhaps the most important type of usability measurements available. Simply put, they require users to attempt to actually use the item in question. Their failure or success ...

9. Usability Testing: Tapping Task
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

The tapping task was developed by Mike Albers of ECU for measuring the usability of written items. It involves the principles of cognitive psychology called, cognitive load. Cognitive load is said to be ...

10. Iterative Usability Testing
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Usability testing is not a singular phenomenon. In other words, you don't test your product (or item or document, or whatever) and then improve it according to the test results, and then quit. True usability ...

11. Usability and Engineering Design
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

... from this discussion are usability issues: Efficiency: It should be easy for the user to accomplish the task the item is designed for. Are there 3 steps or 12? Does it involve multiple button presses or ...

12. Usabiltiy in Logos
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Many people might think that usability is limited to items they can feel, hold or grasp. A radio, for example, can be usable or not usable. An office chair can be usable or not. Even web pages can be usable. ...

13. Usability Case Study: Apple Newton
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

This is the story of engineering design driving a product. As discussed in another location, when engineering design is not combined with principles of usability, the result is normally a failure. When ...

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