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- 2/6/2012

News articles and blog posts about human factors, UX, UI, UE and accessibility.

Addressing the Signatures of Information Overload

Feb 06, 2012 - By Nathaniel DavisPublished: February 6, 2012 “The rapid rate at which people and organizations create and propagate information complicates our getting a grip on information overload….” The one thing we know about information overload on the Web is that we don't know enough. The rapid rate at [...]


Communicating User Research Findings

Feb 06, 2012 - By Jim Ross Published: February 6, 2012 “No one reads reports!” “PowerPoint must die!” “Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging.” We've all read monotonous reports and struggled to remain awake [...]


A UX Research Maturity Model

Feb 06, 2012 - By Tomer Sharon Published: February 6, 2012 “Many executives … have gained a better understanding of what UX design and research can do to boost the success of a business offering.” An increasing number of organizations and individuals who develop software products, Web applications, Web sites, or [...]


How to Get Yourself Started in Statistics

Feb 06, 2012 - By Caroline Jarrett Published: February 6, 2012 “Recently, I've been dealing with my fears and overcoming my resistance to learning statistics. I'm writing a book on surveys, and what's the point of getting  lovely, large-sample data if you can't run a few statistical tests on it?” How do you feel [...]


Captcha and Usability

Feb 03, 2012 - Captcha is a necessary evil we put up with on the Internet. I did a little digging and found there is much to learn about it. I wrote about Capthca for my latest installment at SearchEngineLand – Recent Findings On Captcha & The User Experience The purpose of Captcha is to find a way to [...]


We started with 100, but now it's 80

Feb 03, 2012 - Seats for the premiere Agile development and mobile design conference are going fast We started out with 100 spots, but already we’re down to 80 for the UX Immersion 2012 Conference in Portland, OR April 23-25. You can register at the lowest rate of $1,349 to secure one of the remaining 80 [...]


Sketching Interfaces Workshop Slides

Feb 03, 2012 - Jason & Sam are over at the Dublin Interaction12 conference this year and have been running a Sketching Interfaces Workshop for which they released some slides. The slides are loaded with a few handy tips and rants (i.e. of what sketches are not). They also look at sketching as a number of [...]


Using max-width on images can make them disappear in IE8

Feb 02, 2012 - I recently ran into a problem that was really hard to figure out. I was working on a responsive design where I used img {max-width:100%;} to make sure that images would be downsized rather than overflow in narrower viewports. It worked great everywhere… until I went to check in IE8. The site's [...]


Making Helpful Reviews Easier to Spot with Percentages

Feb 02, 2012 - Buying products online is never a sure thing. That's why most users will read the reviews of a product before they buy it. However, the amount of reviews for a product can get quite large over time. (Powered by


How Cre8pc.com Got Its Name

Feb 02, 2012 - Mystery solved. Economy blues? Poor conversion rates? Web site lost its spunk? Quotes are always free at Cre8pc. Get the answers you need NOW!Video: How Cre8pc.com Got Its Name Sign up for Cre8pc.com's Web Site Usability Course at the Search Engine CollegeEconomy blues? Poor conversion rates? Web [...]





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