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Job Trends in Usability

usability, interaction designer, user interface design, information architect,visual design,web design Job Trends usability jobs – interaction designer jobs – user interface design jobs – information architect jobs – visual design jobs – web design jobs

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Usability Challenge 2008

Join the Usability Challenge 2008 and participate in the world’s first global usability drive! On 1 August 2008, we are asking anyone with a passion for usability to solve a usability problem…any usability problem at all…and help make the world a better/safer/less annoying place. What you need to do on 1 August 2008 is: 1. [...]

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Book on User-Centered Web Design Available Online for Free

In this book, we primarily address universal usability at the functional layer, focusing on the challenges of designing pages that are accessible and usable on different devices by diverse users. We concentrate on the functional layer because, without it, the other layers are irrelevant. An intuitive interface and informative content are useless if the basic [...]

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World Usability Day 2007 @ Bangalore

November 5th and over 100 designers, technologists, usability professionals and public attendees gathered at the NIAS Auditorium at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The event: World Usability Day, which was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Organized and supported by UPA [...]

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Morae 2-Usability Testing Software

Morae is software for usability testing and user experience research that helps you identify site and application design problems and share them with stakeholders. With the insight Morae provides, you can make critical design changes that will improve sales and conversion rates, boost Web site traffic, and increase customer satisfaction. Improve application and Web site [...]

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Understanding Search Usability

The term “search usability” is widely misunderstood throughout a variety of industries: Web design/development, search engine marketing (SEM), online advertising, information sciences, human-computer interface (HCI), and usability industries. Even the term “usability” is misunderstood by search professionals.Every time I hear an SEO professional claim that his or her firm implements web site usability best practices, [...]

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Five main guidelines for links

Even in a promotional context, I wouldn’t recommend using “click here” links, or “read more” for example. Here is a quote from Jakob Nielsen about links (I know, I know.. we can’t consider every word that Jakob says):   “Following are the five main guidelines for links: Make obvious what’s clickable: for text links, use [...]

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