I came across this great list of usability rules in a presentation by Denise Stephen called "Enabled by Design meets Scripting Enabled" which was given as part of the Scripting Enabled event organized by Christian Heilmann. Here goes the list:
I came across this great list of usability rules in a presentation by Denise Stephen called "Enabled by Design meets Scripting Enabled" which was given as part of the Scripting Enabled event organized by Christian Heilmann. Here goes the list:
Just had a epiphany while reading Tantek Çelik’s Communication Protocols. A lot of people are complaining about the inefficiency of emails. What if we read emails like we read twitter statuses? What if we have e-mails incorporated as direct messages with file attachments as links?
It seems my vintage posts were a lot better than what I post now - or so I think. Here is a trip down the memory lane, through what I think are the best posts of Nimbupani circa 2005 and earlier. A lot of what I have written are no longer in the "future" but still make an interesting read.
There is an interesting paper that is a set of observations on users who work with screen readers. Here are some of my notes:
The Nielsen Norman Group has made one of their reports Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities free for download. It is a great reasoned report on how and what the obstacles the handicapped encounter while using the web. I recommend you to download and read the report fully.
I took some notes and here are a few extracts I found really useful as a web designer.
Visit the new Singapore Public Library website first.
I just read this on the sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think:
My favorite example is the people (and I’ve seen dozens of them myself) who will type a site’s entire URL in the Yahoo search box every time they want to go to there—not just to find the site for the first time, but every time they want to go there, sometimes several times a day. If you ask them about it, it becomes clear that some of them think that Yahoo is the Internet, and that this is the way you use it
This is simply my first attempt at Singlish Humor. Miserable Failure is the phrase. Partly arose from the very closet "registration only" policy at the Straits Times Interactive.
BBC got so many things to learn from us. British canno take care of own websites wan. We, at Straits Times, know how to oredi. If you are from BBC, listen and learn!