Usability Begins at Home
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Universal Design: Usability for your
home
Universal Design: Usability for your
home
10/29/2003 01:15 AMI've heard of ergonomics, but I hadn't heard of Universal Design,
created at the Center for Universal Design. Its original goal was
homes that are accessible to disabled people, but its benefits extend
to the rest of us. Putting power plugs higher may benefit wheelchair
users the most, but higher power plugs would mean I wouldn't have to
crawl or bend way over to unplug things. Universal design's affinity
with usability is clear from a sampling of its seven principles:
Principle Two is Flexibility in Use, Principle Four is Perceptible
Information, and Principle Five is Tolerance for Error. This idea
resonated with me, because my former apartment had locks installed
upside down, a bathroom door that was stuck enough to require force to
open, and my current apartment has vertical blinds that constantly jam
up, and a dryer dial I found irritating. All these little annoyances
add up to make daily life more irritating than it has to be. This
approach was named by the late Ron Mace. I ran across it on (via
Realty Times) which mentioned it as a new trend in home design I find
most encouraging....
The semantic web begins at home
The semantic web begins at home
01/07/2004 02:57 PMThe site for the First European Semantic Web Symposium is one of the
least semantic websites ever produced.
Security begins at home
Security begins at home
04/28/2004 04:40 AMNetwork World Senior Editor John Fontana reported last week (link
below) that attendees at a city on Microsoft's Security Summit road
show indicated they wanted the company to make new security tools -
such as the Internet Connection Firewall (link below) - run with older
versions of its operating systems.
Burningbird: Change begins at Home
Burningbird: Change begins at Home
12/25/2003 08:08 AM"change begins at
Home"
weblog.burningbird.net/fires/womenswriting/change_begins_at_ho
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SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC
SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC
06/24/2004 01:19 PMSETI@Home begins their transition to the BOINC client and
infrastructure. Congrats to Team Lamb Chop members for their efforts
in the "classic" portion of the project and we look forward to your
contribution using the new BOINC client.
Usability Requirements: How to Specify,
Test and Report Usability
Usability Requirements: How to Specify,
Test and Report Usability
01/08/2003 06:00 AM"When the kids bring them home and open
them up, it's the brightest light source
in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents
love it."
"When the kids bring them home and open
them up, it's the brightest light source
in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents
love it."
04/05/2005 04:08 AMSomewhat amazing story about $100 laptops for children in developing
nations .. 100 dollar laptop ..
laptops
cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/04/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap/inde
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Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home
Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home
05/04/2004 09:06 PMHidden Wires May 5 2004 0:12AM GMT
Stay at Home Mom makes 6-Figure Income
Working Online at Home- Second Time
Around After Huge Comeback
Stay at Home Mom makes 6-Figure Income
Working Online at Home- Second Time
Around After Huge Comeback
09/26/2004 03:48 AMStay at home mother, Sandi Krakowski, always knew that one day she
would create a career and find a way to not interfere with her love
for her family. As a homeschooling mother of 3 for 15 years, Sandi has
found great success by working out of the comfort of her home,
6-Figures worth! [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]
Refinance, Home Improvement and Home
Equity Loans
Refinance, Home Improvement and Home
Equity Loans
06/02/2004 06:37 PMAd - http://www.locallender.info Jun 2 2004 11:37PM GMT
Usability - is it what we think it is?
Usability - is it what we think it is?
10/30/2003 08:13 AMDropped and dragged through the mire
"It's Not Just Usability"
"It's Not Just Usability"
09/08/2004 08:33 AMUsability Must Die
Usability Must Die
10/17/2002 08:03 AMBeyond Usability
Beyond Usability
11/04/2002 09:41 AMSEO v.s. Usability
SEO v.s. Usability
04/28/2004 02:44 PMHow to run dueling page tests without sacrificing your rankings?
The Road to Usability
The Road to Usability
09/16/2002 06:39 AMOffshore Usability
Offshore Usability
09/16/2002 02:37 AMEnemies of Usability
Enemies of Usability
10/21/2002 06:18 AMUse Usability to Best Advantage
Use Usability to Best Advantage
09/13/2002 03:25 AMUsability Toolkit
Usability Toolkit
06/04/2002 10:14 AMMoney Usability
Money Usability
12/30/2003 12:05 AMMaking different denominations of coins different shapes and sizes is
obvious. You keep them in your pocket, wallet or change... (345 words)
"Design Eye for the Usability Guy"
"Design Eye for the Usability Guy"
05/23/2004 09:31 AMIntranet Usability
Intranet Usability
11/10/2002 08:55 PMHandheld Usability
Handheld Usability
06/04/2002 06:01 AMUsability matters
Usability matters
12/02/2002 01:17 PMUsability is Next to Profitability
Usability is Next to Profitability
12/06/2002 03:58 AMHomepage Usability
Homepage Usability
03/30/2005 05:47 PM
The book begins with a chapter of precise guidelines that serve as
a checklist of the features and functionality to include on your home
page. The specifics found in categories such as "revealing content
through examples" and "graphic design" will quickly hook you and whet
your appetite for more. These guidelines are followed up with hard
statistics and an examination of the ominous Jakob's Law: "Users spend
most of their time on other sites than your site." Here you'll find
some interesting statistics about how various conventions like search,
privacy policies, and logos are used.
All this leads up to the showcase element of the book--a systematic
deconstruction of 50 of the most popular home pages on the Web. The
authors painstakingly pick apart each in an uncompromising autopsy of
usability. Each site is graphically analyzed for its use of real
estate and summarized with the frankness only found from true experts.
Then each section of the home page is bulleted and analyzed for
potential improvements.
Competitive Usability
Competitive Usability
05/28/2002 08:58 AMUsability Links
Usability Links
03/11/2003 09:43 AMNow here's a usability story worth taking seriously: Child car seat
instructions too difficult. (via IDblog) Daniel Kapusta rants that
dishonest links must die. All about a link that seems...
Usability for Programmers
Usability for Programmers
01/22/2003 04:20 AMUsability Guru
Usability Guru
01/17/2003 04:27 AMHyperlink Usability
Hyperlink Usability
05/22/2004 12:50 AMDesign
Guidelines for Visualizing Links: A lot of really good guidelines
for hyperlink usability that really boil down to one point: do links
the way HTML was built to handle them and you won't have any problems.
Ninety-nine percent of usability problems on the Net are a result of
people trying to get cute.
Don't underline any text that's not a link, even if your
links aren't underlined. Reserve underlining for links. Because
underlines provide a strong perceived affordance of clickability,
users will be confused and disappointed if underlined text doesn't
have an actual affordance to match this perception.
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When Does Usability Become a Liability?
When Does Usability Become a Liability?
04/12/2004 10:08 PMSlashdot Apr 13 2004 2:16AM GMT
Becoming a Usability Professional
Becoming a Usability Professional
07/22/2002 10:42 AMGorilla Usability
Gorilla Usability
12/23/2002 10:55 AMNot everyone has time to conduct a formal usability study, or the
money to invest in a full blown usability initiative, and frankly,
lots of times that might not be the best option anyway. Sometimes a
designer or developer needs that one-on-one, maker-to-user interface.
Gorilla Usability will show you some ways to get to know your users in
a real world, out-from-behind-the-glass kind of way.
Usability Is An Island
Usability Is An Island
12/29/2004 08:52 PMWhy Usability Matters
Why Usability Matters
08/14/2002 04:13 AMMisconceptions About Usability
Misconceptions About Usability
10/29/2003 12:12 AMUsability Testing: You Get What You Pay
For
Usability Testing: You Get What You Pay
For
06/19/2002 12:06 PM"About half that time is spent planning the test, a quarter running
it, and a quarter analyzing and interpreting results and generating
recommendations."
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