- Working Armour - Occupational Health and Safety - Safety Consultants
English
Australia, NSW, Sydney
2012-01-22
Julie Armour
Working Armour
julie@workingarmour.com.au
Analysis of human factors and ergonomic interaction with computers from a physical and cognitive ergonomic perspective.
- Thinking Aloud: The #1 Usability Tool
2012-01-16
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Simple usability tests where users think out loud are cheap, robust, flexible, and easy to learn. Thinking aloud should be the first tool in your UX toolbox, even though it entails some risks and doesn't solve all problems.
- 10 Best Intranets of 2012
2012-01-03
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Social networking and personalization rise to higher levels this year, while mobile intranets continue to cut their teeth. Also, smaller organizations get larger teams and better designs.
- CM Pros: Content Management Professionals
2011-12-22
CM Pros is a collaborative community of practice advancing the field of content management. Its members reflect the
cross-disciplinary nature of the field, and share a passion for managing content effectively.
- HCI and Interaction Design Conferences
2011-12-22
The world's largest wiki bibliography. Our bibliography includes 1,935
conferences with 104,207 publications from 116,659 authors.
- IAI: Information Architecture Institute
2011-12-22
We are working hard to build an international membership that connects people with diverse languages, cultures and
perspectives. So far, we have over 2000 members from 60 countries. Our Board of Directors and Board of Advisors are
comprised of individuals from six continents. Our Translations Initiative and Local Group Program serves to promote and
extend our services to all corners of the world.
- IIID: International Institute for Information Design
2011-12-22
The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) was founded to develop research and practice in optimizing
information and information systems for knowledge transfer
in everyday life, business, education and science.
The main concern of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) is to contribute to a better understanding
within the human community with respect to cultural and economic issues by means of improved visual and other forms of
communication.
Special attention is paid to the potential of graphic information design to overcome both social and language barriers.
- UXnet: User Experience Network
2011-12-22
This is an archive of information about the User Experience Network.
We want to save the pieces that have long-term value and will still help the user experience community in the years ahead.
If you have a suggestion for something else to put in these archives, send us your thoughts via email: archive at uxnet.org
. For many years, we syndicated a subset of content from Putting People First: that blog, and its archives, is still
around.
- Overloaded vs. Generic Commands
2011-12-19
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Overloading different outcomes on similar commands can be confusing. Using the same command for multiple actions enhances usability if the results are conceptually the same.
- Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
2011-12-17
Welcome to a new type of encyclopedia! It's free, it includes videos, commentaries, and lots more. All chapters are written by leading figures within each subject. As such, it's different from the Wikipedia.
- Utilisabilité Québec
French
Canada, Quebec, Montreal
2011-12-11
UPA - Montreal
info@utilisabilitequebec.org
Le mandat du chapitre montréalais du "Usability Professionals' Association" est de
favoriser le developpement et la promotion de la pratique professionnelle en matière
d'ergonomie cognitive et d'utilisabilité.
- Kindle Fire Usability Findings
2011-12-05
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Mobile web sites work best on the 7-inch tablet. Users had great trouble touching the correct items on full sites, where UI elements are too small on the Fire screen.
- ACM SIGCHI interactions magazine Forum: Timelines
2011-12-01
ACM SIGCHI
Timelines provides perspectives on HCI history, glancing back at a road that sometimes took unexpected branches and turns.
History is not a dry list of events; it is about points of view and differing interpretations.
- Accuracy vs. Insights in Quantitative Usability
2011-11-21
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Better to accept a wider margin of error in usability metrics than to spend the entire budget learning too few things with extreme precision.
- Mobile UX Sharpens Usability Guidelines
2011-11-07
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Many guidelines are similar for mobile and desktop design, but their mobile interpretation is much more unforgiving.
- iSchools Caucus
2011-11-04
The iSchools are interested in the relationship between information, people and technology. This is characterized by a commitment to learning and understanding the role of information in human endeavors. The iSchools take it as given that expertise in all forms of information is required for progress in science, business, education, and culture. This expertise must include understanding of the uses and users of information, as well as information technologies and their applications.
- Welie.com - Patterns in Interaction Design
2011-11-03
Welie.com. A pattern library with over 125 patterns for Interaction Design. All patterns are illustrated with examples and links to literature and occasionally code.
- User Experience Newsletter
United Kingdom, London
2011-11-01
Userfocus
- E-Commerce Usability
2011-10-24
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Sites have improved, and we now know much more about e-tailing usability. Today, poor content is the main cause of user failure.
- Innovation in Product and Service Design
English
United Kingdom, London
2011-10-17
Pedro Cubillo
info@dilenio.com
We help organisations to address business challenges and objectives, such as reducing customer churn, or identifying new
revenue streams, through innovation in products and services.
- User Friendly (Comic Strip)
2011-10-17
- Mobile Content: If in Doubt, Leave It Out
2011-10-10
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Writing for mobile readers requires even harsher editing than writing for the Web. Mobile use implies less patience for filler copy.
- Buxton Collection: input and interactive devices
English
2011-10-06
Bill Buxton
Microsoft Research
bibuxton@microsoft.com
Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting. Explore his collection of
input and interactive devices that he found interesting, useful, or important in the history of pen computing, pointing
devices, and touch technologies.