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Jan 18, 2005

How to Bake Usability into your Company in Usability
The key to long term usability success in a company is to train designers and developers.

Nov 27, 2004

OpenUsability in Usability
OpenUsability.org is a project that brings open source developers and usability experts together.

Dec 18, 2003

Shirky: Playfulness in 3D Spaces-Why Quake is Better Than VRML in Usability
I have seen a lot of 3-D spaces over the years, and I have never run into anything that gives as palpable a sense of place as this does.

Oct 2, 2003

Eddie Bauer is hiring a usability specialist in Usability
The Web Behavior & Business Analyst is responsible for providing expert knowledge and insight into Eddie Bauer's Online business, measuring and analyzing site usability, and providing the E-Commerce team with communication, education, insight on business/market economic trends, and customer behavior.

Jul 25, 2003

Death to Cool in Usability
"We used to talk about training users to operate the robot, and now that's something that we never want to do," says Jim Lynch, one of the chief designers of Roomba. "We have a picture of this big button that says clean. There were many times someone would grab that piece of paper and put it on the table and say, 'That's the user interface we want. That's how simple we want this thing to be.'"is thing to be.'"

Jan 23, 2003

THE Key to User-Friendly Computers? in Usability
These problems are magnified by handheld devices, where cursor placement is less exact and pull-downs even more cumbersome.

Jan 17, 2003

Who Had the Worst User Experience? in Usability
Let me offer three examples of companies that failed to deliver a good user experience during the holiday season. They failed through a lack of the basic abilities to do thorough design, implementation, quality assurance, and intradepartment communication.

Business apps get bad marks in usability in Usability
Most software companies have little incentive to make their applications more intuitive, because their training programs are an important source of revenue.

Dec 25, 2002

Usability News - Examining User Expectations for the Location of Common E-Commerce Web Objects in Usability
This study sought to investigate user expectations on the location of common e-commerce web objects on a typical website. (From July 2002)

Internetworking - Conceptual User Interface in Usability
Where do users typically expect certain web objects to be located on a web page? (From Dec 2000)

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