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Websites Covering Usability (UX)

Posted by on October 15, 2010

Website usability has become a crucial part of online strategy and website design/development. Here are some websites to help keep up to date with the latest research.

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UX Magazine
UX Magazine is a high-quality resource that publishes discussions on ways to enhance the user experience.

UX Booth
UX Booth is a multi-author blog catering to the user experience community. It also covers usability and interaction design.

User Interface: Stack Exchange
Still in beta, UI Stack Exchange (part of the Stack Overflow network) is a collaboratively edited question-and-answer website for user interface researchers and experts.

Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow, a popular programming Q&A website, has awesome question threads tagged with UX andUsability.

UX Exchange
UX Exchange is a community-driven website where members can ask about user experience and UX-related fields such as usability, accessibility and interaction design.

User Interface Engineering
UIE is the largest usability research organization in the world. It publishes articles and research findings on its website.

UXmatters
UXmatters is a Web magazine that publishes content on user experience strategies, information on the UX discipline and more.

52 Weeks of UX
This website by Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer covers topics related to “the process of designing for real people.”

Semantics
Peter Morville, founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience and findability consultancy, writes about user experience (and related topics) in this Web column.

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500 Million People Hate Facebook

Posted by on July 21, 2010

A survey recently by ForSeewent out called the American Customer Satisfaction Idex, which added a few social media website this time, provided some interesting feedback on what people think of Facebook.

The feedback was primarily of dislike for Facebook, which is surprising when looking at its gigantic exponential growth, while closing in on 500 Million users.
It is also quite obvious that due to it’s size and lack of competition, users simply don’t have anywhere else to go. It’s a monopoly.

Google is planning to launch Google Me, a Facebook-like service and it will be interesting to see the impact on Facebook if Google manages to launch a service that people love. It could be the MySpace/Facebook war all over again.

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Microsoft’s PivotViewer for data visualisation is here

Posted by on July 2, 2010

Live Labs, an image/tech/data contingent of Microsoft has launched PivotView, which is visualisaton data tool that takes large chunks of data and presents it in a usable and visual way.

PivotView makes comparing a topic easy by placing everthing on one page with images which can lead to furthur information, rather than having a whole bunch of pages open and having to sift through them all.

The project is an ongoing development and can be downloaded here.

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UX Myths

Posted by on June 30, 2010

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience design misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true. And you don’t have to take our word for it, we’ll show you lots of researches and articles from design and usability gurus.

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Find all the answers here

  1. Myth #21: People can tell you what they want
  2. Myth #20: If it works for Amazon, it will work for you
  3. Myth #19: You don’t need the content to design a website
  4. Myth #18: Flash is evil
  5. Myth #17: The homepage is your most important page
  6. Myth #16: Search will solve a website’s navigation problems
  7. Myth #15: Users make optimal choices
  8. Myth #14: You are like your users
  9. Myth #13: Icons enhance usability
  10. Myth #12: More choices and features result in higher satisfaction
  11. Myth #11: You need to redesign your website periodically
  12. Myth #10: If your design is good, small details don’t matter
  13. Myth #9: Design has to be original
  14. Myth #8: Ornamental graphics improves the users’ experience
  15. Myth #7: Graphics will make a page element more visible
  16. Myth #6: Accessible sites are ugly
  17. Myth #5: Accessibility is expensive and difficult
  18. Myth #4: Design is about making a website look good
  19. Myth #3: People don’t scroll
  20. Myth #2: All pages should be accessible in 3 clicks
  21. Myth #1: People read on the web
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