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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
- Cambio (exe)
- Cambio is an application for Windows Mobile devices that converts US units to decimal units. Example: Miles to Kilometer and vice versa. This application is very useful when traveling for example between Europe and the USA. Usability is a plus. This application is very easy to use and fast. You...
- Tags: Usability, Application, Cambio, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-11-13
- 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
- Lessons learned from Web based email
- Have you ever noticed and wondered why so many people use free, Web based e-mail accounts? I know that I have. Personally, I cannot stand them. Nonetheless, most people I know use them. I think that despite the fact that Web based e-mail is not nearly as good overall as...
- Tags: Usability, Software Development, Software Design, Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- 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
- 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
- Left behind in the computer age
- The world is increasingly moving towards a point where with the exception of a few specialized tasks, the bulk of the mid and high end jobs will involve nearly continuous use of some sort of computing device. While this may strike most people as being a Good...
- Tags: Usability, Software, Programmer, Computer, Productivity, Justin James
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Forcing Users to Comply
- There is one question that business folks always seem to ask technical folks, and it scares the heck out of me: "how can we force the user to comply with process XYZ?" "Process XYZ" over the years has ranged from "read a certain text" to "enter certain input" to "remember...
- Tags: Programming, User Experience, Software Development, Usability, window
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Spam Software is Pretty Lousy
- I have come to a startling conclusion after spending over 12 years of my life having an @domain.com email address: the only software worse than spam filtering software is the spam sending software! We are all familiar with the problems with spam filtering software; false positives, false negatives, reliance upon...
- Tags: Interface Design, software, spam, Usability, User Experience
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- 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
- Usability vs. User Experience
- Paper prototypes are excellentSince most of my users are remote, my "paper prototypes" are usually "draw useless screens in Visual Studio and take a screen shot." I do not like to prototype by sending the user running executable code, because they g
- Tags: John Quillen, Usability, Microsoft Visio
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Use this template to quickly create an all-purpose calendar in Word
- If you've ever used Word's calendar wizard, you may have found that it's heavy on cosmetic effects and light on practicality. And although Outlook will let you print a blank calendar that comes a little closer in terms of usability, it's an eight-step process. So we created a Word template...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, chase, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, practicality, simplicity, template, tool, usability
- Download resources 2005-08-08
- 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
- Project risk factors checklist
- Many projects have inherent risks that can wreak havoc if left unmanaged. This checklist, updated for better usability, will help you assess and minimize the risk potential for your project and head off potential problems. The first section describes the characteristics of typical risk factors to help you determine whether...
- Tags: risk, usability, checklist, havoc, risk management, strategy
- Download resources 2005-04-22
Additional Resources
- From Inspiration to Action at A.G. Edwards
- This webcast discusses how the team of Certified Usability Analysts CUAs was instrumental towards making usability a routine practice at A.G. Edwards. A.G. Edwards' CUAs provided design guidance, usability testing, standards development and training for both Web and Intranet applications.
- Tags: A.G. Edwards, Human Factors International Inc., Team Management, Workforce Management, Digital Media, Management, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- 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
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