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- Usability on Editing Blog Comments
- Hey TR guys.If you add a comment to a blog post, you see the original blog entry in a blue block as normal and your comments underneath in white, as you would expect.But, edit the comment and when you hit submit you only see your comment in the blue block....
- Tags: blog, blog comments, blog entry, Bork Blatt, feedback, Jive, original blog entry, original blog-entry, software, usability, usability problem
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
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- Digital Library Design for Usability
- During the last decade, software designers have made progress in developing usable systems for products such as word processors. Less attention has been given to usability in digital library DL design. In this paper, we discuss two forms of DL usability - interface and organizational. While the Human-Computer-Interaction research community...
- Tags: Usability, Digital Library
- White papers
- Are Usability and Security Two Opposite Directions in Computer Systems?
- Instinct tells us that computer security and computer usability are inversely proportional to each other. In other words, the tougher and stricter the security is, the less usability there is, and vice versa. However, there have been plenty of cases where both computer security and computer usability went hand in...
- Tags: Instinct, Computer, Productivity, Security
- White papers 2004-10-30
- Building a Global Corporate Library Portal: Usability Results and Design Implications
- This paper presents the findings from usability studies that were conducted as part of efforts to build a global library portal site for a large high tech company. A series of five usability tests were conducted on five different corporate library web sites, all within the same company, but based...
- Tags: Usability, Web, Hewlett-Packard Co., Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2001-11-05
- Usability in Enterprise Customer Service Applications: The Impact to Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, and Profitability
- This paper examines the current state of usability in enterprise customer service applications, and the benefits to an organization when those applications are highly usable. It explores how application providers, such as Oracle, are addressing usability issues. It also provides guidelines for evaluating usability, including user feedback, input, and testing;...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Series 40 Developer Platform 1.0: Usability Guidelines for J2ME Games
- This paper provides guidelines for developing easy-to-use, fun, and challenging J2ME games for Nokia Series 40 mobile phones. To help developers implement usability issues in their development projects, a model and recommendations for usability testing and evaluation are included. Research with three different J2ME mobile phone games from three developers...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-04-21
- The Quest for the Holy Grail: Do Users Seek a Colorful Website or a Useful Website?
- The thrill of experiencing something new, a journey into unchartered territory. Is this what attracts users to a site? What induces 'Stickiness' to a site? Does the latest in multimedia graphics help or is it better to enhance usability? This paper undertakes to give the reader a sweeping view of...
- Tags: Usability, Multimedia, Holy Grail, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet
- White papers 2006-10-10
- Usability: The Feature To Rule Them All
- Good to see somebody noticed the gizmo maniaI have been managing software projects for last 9 years. I can share my experience of stressing on Usability as I gradually understood the screats of successful projects.In one of my project, we hired
- Tags: hitesh.url@..., telephone, Usability
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- Word 2007: Lessons on usability
- Do you agree that Microsoft's redesign of Word 2007 represents a step forward toward better usability? Which interface changes do you think are improvements (and which, if any, do you think are poor design decisions)?
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word 2007, JodyGilbert, software, interface, design, justin james
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen
- To reach new readers and respect your existing readers' time constraints, test your weblog against the following usability problemsThis post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Usability, Blog, Jakob Nielsen, Blogging, Web Site Development, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
- Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen
- To reach new readers and respect your existing readers' time constraints, test your weblog against the following usability problemsThis post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Usability, Blog, Jakob Nielsen, Blogging, Web Site Development, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
- Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- To reach new readers and respect your existing readers' time constraints, test your weblog against the following usability problemsThis post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Usability, Blog, Jakob Nielsen, Blogging, Web Site Development, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Word 2007: Lessons on usability
- Although Microsoft says that the radical interface changes in Word 2007 are aimed at enhancing usability, not everyone is convinced that the goal has been met. Justin James analyzes several aspects of the redesign and offers a case in support of the changes. This download is also available as...
- Tags: Usability, Microsoft Word 2007, Justin James, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2007-03-06
- Tracking the Interaction of Users With AJAX Applications for Usability Testing
- This paper introduces an implementation for detailed monitoring of user actions on web pages. It addresses the problem that the log data recorded by standard web servers is not sufficient for the tracking of users on AJAX websites, e.g. to conduct a usability test. Using standard web technologies, the HTTP...
- Tags: Mouse, Association For Computing Machinery, AJAX, Mice, Web Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2007-05-03
- Network Appliance FAS3020 and EMC CX500: Comparison of Usability and Performance
- The NetApp FAS3020 demonstrates higher overall performance thanthe CX500 in VeriTest's usability and performance test.
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Performance, EMC Corp., NetApp, NetApp FAS3020, Storage, Performance Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Heroix Longitude: IT Management Sophistication Meets Usability
- Aligning IT management with a business service perspective is a challenge for all enterprises. Datacenter size is often not the sole indicator of the difficulty in achieving this goal. Rather technological complexity and siloed IT expertise is often the dominating factor. Thus, today's management solutions must have features sophisticated enough...
- Tags: Usability, IT Administration, Information Technology, Sophistication, Heroix Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability into Software
- What users really want is good tools. All software systems, from operating systems and languages to data entry and decision support applications, are just tools. End users want from the tools we engineer for them much the same as what we expect from the tools we use....
- Tags: Software, User Interface, Tool, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management
- White papers 2000-06-02
- Make a strong business case for good user interface and usability design
- Without good user interface design, users won't like your product, whether it's software, hardware, or a Web site. Without usability design and testing, you'll never know if your design is useful until you receive input from the public. If the user interface is a flop, you and your...
- Tags: Business Case, User Interface, Addison-Wesley, Chapter Coverage
- Book chapters 2007-05-11
- Analytical Evaluation of Groupware Usability in Concerted Work Scenarios
- This paper addresses the usability evaluation of groupware tools supporting teams working in an intensive concerted effort towards a shared goal. Considering the evaluation of this technology in such scenario is a complex and costly endeavor, a discount analytical evaluation approach is proposed. This approach uses available models of human...
- Tags: Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls
- Effective security of a personal firewall depends on the rule granularity and the implementation of the rule enforcement and the correctness and granularity of user decisions at the time of an alert. A misconfigured or loosely configured firewall may be more dangerous than no firewall at all because of the...
- Tags: Granularity, Personal Firewall, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-19
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