Web Usability Research

I came across this article via a post at Scene360.com:

Smashing Magazine has compiled findings from several usability research groups into a helpful overview titled “10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines”.

There is certainly some great advice in this article, some items are rather debateable. There is a time for comformity and there is a time to give the users something completely new. Then there are hard percentages that can hardly be ignored… A good read no matter what your take on it.

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Usability Testing

In the past I shared with everyone at DBD an interesting concept called “card sort” for doing usability testing before any real visual layout or coding is done:
Site Point Article: Run Your First Card Sort

Recently I have heard about methods that two big players (Google & Microsoft) are doing with their user testing.

A glimpse of Google’s approach to usability testing with their forthcoming Google Wave app:
Site Point Email Newsletter: Cameron Adams Rides the Wild Wave

Last night Gregg and I attended a presentation from Microsoft and the presenter (Bill J. Steele) had been on the team that redesigned the MS Office interface with the 2007 release. I still hate the new setup—I can’t find things that used…

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