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Speaker: Jared Spool Experience design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with tons of money and exceptional visionary management. It’s become commonplace for organizations that build products and web sites. Experience Design is a centerpiece of boardroom discussions and quickly becoming a key performance indicator for many businesses. However, you can’t just hire a couple of “experience designers” and tell them, "Go do that voodoo that you do so well." Today’s business environment forces...
VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication Ray DeLaPena Visual-thinking user experience consultant living in Brooklyn, NY. VizThink NYC organizer. 4/2/11 0 For VizThink NYC’s third workshop of 2011 BigBlueGumball took the crowd...
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Today I want to talk about using Context Menus in web application design. What is a context menu? A context menu is a menu that contains commands specific to the object that the cursor (* see note about touch screens, below) is currently pointing at – the “target object”. These are also sometimes called “right click menus” or “right mouse menus” since they were, historically, activated by the Windows right mouse button. The Context Menu for a mail message on Apple Mail (left) and Windows Mail (right) Should...
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 28, 2011: Optimizing a Screen for Mobile Use Summary: A single mobile screen with almost no features still required 10 design changes to meet usability guidelines for mobile websites. During our recent Asia-Pacific tour, we took the opportunity to conduct several usability studies. Sometimes we tested regular websites to update seminars such as Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability. But we spent more time on issues where we expected to find bigger regional...
Six controversial topics in usability Every field has its set of hot-button issues and usability is no exception. Here are six topics that tend to generate some passionate discussions. 1. Quantifying usability: Usability is all about the user (i.e. people). Talk of using numbers to describe human computer interaction gets some upset. Usability is typically considered a qualitative activity and not the place for cold-number crunching. Throw some...
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