Thank you readers, clients, partners and friends for a great 2009 – we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!
Moderated, task-based testing is the mainstay of usability testing and most practitioners are familiar with it. At Volkside we normally give participants their tasks verbally, however more recently we have experimented with also giving them a printed copy of each task. Read the full post for more.
Ricardo Semler urges us to keep our memos short: “If you really want someone to evaluate a project’s chances, only give them a single page to do it — and make them write a headline that gets to the point, as in a newspaper.” Semler is the CEO of the industrial conglomerate Semco and the author of Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace (1993). Read the full post for more.
Read full post on Keep your memos to one page or lessPosted in Books, Business, Communication, Documentation | Tagged advice, brevity, Business, Communication, concise, content, recommendations, suggestion, tip, writing |
In recent card sorting sessions, we have made a poster with “card sorting guidelines” available to the participants. These guidelines serve as a quick reference when the participants are immersed in sorting the cards and remind them of the “do’s” and “don’ts” in grouping and labelling. Read the full post for more.
We helped redesign an online service called Dancentral, “the ultimate dance music video directory.” See the full post for ‘before’ and ‘after’ screenshots and further details.
Read full post on Design detail: An easier music video directoryPosted in Interaction design, Online service | Tagged column view, design, directory, eurodance, Interaction design, music videos, navigation, user experience, videos, youtube |
It is important that users can easily find the information they are looking for on your website – otherwise they’ll leave. It’s a good idea to test your new information architecture with real users before building the site.
Read the full post on how to run effective IA testing using a new tool called C-Inspector and how it compares to Optimal Workshop’s Treejack.
Read full post on Test your information architecture using C-InspectorPosted in Information architecture, Review, Usability testing | Tagged c-inspector, hierarchy, Information architecture, taxonomy, treejack, unmoderated, Usability testing, user experience, website structure |
Read the full post for a video introduction to Naview and an overview of the new sharing functionality.
Read full post on Naview videos: Introduction and sharing navigation structuresPosted in Information architecture, Prototyping, Usability testing, Visualisation | Tagged hierarchy, Information architecture, Interaction design, menu, navigation, screencast, spreadsheet, structure, taxonomy, tool, usability, video, website structure |
A friend of mine recently wanted to pick my brains on CVs and resumes for User Experience designers. Read the full post for my response with useful pointers to various online resources.
Jakob Nielsen recently posted an article urging designers to stop masking passwords on web forms. We came up with several additional ways of improving your website login form – read the full post for details.
Read full post on Design detail: An easier login formPosted in General, Interaction design, user experience | Tagged advice, design, design pattern, form, Interaction design, recommendations, Review, suggestion, usability, user experience |
