Talking to Rachel after tonight’s meeting (more about that later) I had a thought for next month. Rather than talking about it – why don’t we do it. How about we design something as a group. We have more than enough people to make a spectacularly over-staffed design team (or two more sensibly staffed teams). […]
Continue Reading →Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
There is an interesting eye tracking story over on the Google Blog, covering their results from some usability studies they carried out. Specifically: eye tracking to test the use of thumbnails in search results. Though the blog report is fairly brief, they did come to specific conclusion. Our studies showed that the thumbnails did not […]
Continue Reading →Slides From Rob Knight’s Talk
Here are the slides (in PDF) from Rob’s talk on interaction between usability professionals and software developers given on 20th January 2009. interaction between usability professionals and software developers Sorry for the delay (Rob did send them promptly)
Continue Reading →Usability Event in Manchester 28th Jan
Some people may be interested to know of a free usability event being run by Manchester Digital on the 28th January 2009. I will be speaking at the event along with Judith Garmen and Pete Bagnall. It’s focused on helping business owners understand the importance of usability for both their internal and external facing websites […]
Continue Reading →Assistive Technology videos
All, Good to see some new people at the last meeting. Following our discussion here is a link to some AbilityNet videos of assistive technology users http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3CD45E862B50C925 Some of these are also available on Easy Youtube which was developed by Chris Heilmann http://scriptingenabed.pbwiki.com/AbilityNet-Videos Judith
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