usability on SWiK

WAVE Toolbar

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:05:41 -0700

Accessibility analysis server. Nice HTML visualization and annotation of accessibility problems. This link is for the Firefox extension, which works behind the firewall.

Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:04:34 -0700

Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:49:19 -0700

"I'm happy to announce that Yahoo! is releasing the results of a usability study that we did for OpenID. Our test subjects were several experienced Yahoo! users (representative of our mainstream audience) who were observed as they tried to sign into a product review site using the Yahoo OpenID service."

Main Page - Interactive Gestures Pattern Library

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:22:21 -0700

Browser Statistics

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:00:51 -0700

Buenas Prácticas en Web Móvil

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:50:14 -0700

Tarjetas de MWBP / W3C España

Google Open Source Blog: Wrapping the Season of Usability 2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:47:54 -0700

Blog post on Google's open source blog about all the Season of Usability projects 2008 (including my Gallery project)

Season of Usability " Blog Archive " Success Stories 08: Redesigning Gallery's Image Upload Tools

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:47:54 -0700

Report of the Season of Usability project that I did in the summer of 2008.

" ARIA ", " aides techniques " : c'est quoi tout ça ?

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:51:49 -0700

25 Most Stunning And Free Icons Set

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:31:09 -0700

We regularly list down free stuffs available for designers, developers, general users. Today, we are listing 25 Most Stunning And Free Icons Set. These icons are high quality and can be used anywhere you want but we suggest you that don’t forget to read the license detail before using anyone below.

Macromedia Flex の体験モデルを理解する

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:24:56 -0700

Adobe - デベロッパーセンター

Design for iPhone: a device that thinks different | evolt.org

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:26 -0700

20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:23:51 -0700

20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources...

What If You Ran an Ad, and Nobody Saw It?

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:27:43 -0700

Jacob Jakob Nielsen knows web users. The Nielsen/Norman Group, which he co-founded, has tested thousands of sites. It’s watched more than 3,000 users try to perform tasks online, even following their eyes to see where they look. And he has some frightening news:

Nobody looks at picture advertising.

Nielsen, in a keynote address at the inaugural Web Experience Forum in Boston, Mass., said web design is doomed to failure unless we learn from end users. And one major lesson is that other than paid search, ads don’t work.

“We call this banner blindness — people won’t see ads at all,” said Nielsen. “Ads might as well not exist as far as users are concerned, except for search ads.” The number of web users that so much as glance at banner ads, he added, is too small to even quantify.

The findings are no secret to web usability professionals gathered here, who obsess over how consumers use the web. But they’re often ignored by ad buyers.

“For the longest time, the web has been in collective denial of this phenomenon,” said Nielsen. “People still have this old media thinking: They think of the web being similar to TV because it’s on the screen and visual. The main distinction is whether it’s active or passive, not whether it’s on a screen or not.”

Advertising revenues, which pay for much of the web, are having a rough year, with some analysts cutting their estimates for the entire sector.

Nielsen pointed out that paid search still works — partly because it’s relevant, and partly because users aren’t tuning ads out. “We thought we’d find [paid search] box blindness the way we did banner blindness, but that’s not the case. Users are interested in search ads and actually look at them.”

How to use Selenium RC with Firefox 3

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:25:12 -0700

The current version of selenium RC does not support firefox 3, which can cause all kinds of headaches when you try to run FF2 & 3 on the same box. This quick hack will enable you to use selenium RC in firefox 3.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:19:25 -0700

Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:18:53 -0700

A good UI should fade away, putting content in the front seat — it should be transparent. Sometimes there can be too much ‘UI’ — controls and buttons that are too strong and distracting win over content in their battle for attention.

Particletree " Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:18:01 -0700

Web Accessibility: AccessColor Tool- free online color contrast ...

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:18:01 -0700

OpenUsability

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:27:41 -0700

OpenUsability is an initiative that promotes usability in open source software.

20の優れたAjax効果*ホームページを作る人のネタ帳

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:14 -0700

urlkit - Google Code

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:06 -0700

Keryx (X)HTML Elements Best Practice Sheet

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:21:54 -0700

whoa. Extra awesome cheat sheet time.

The Web Standards Project

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:22:17 -0700

Mozilla Launches New Developer Tools Lab

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:52:28 -0700

Mozilla has just announced its Developer Tools Lab--headed up by a new group that will focus on "the research and development of developer tools for the open web." According to Mozilla officials, "the primary initiative of the newly formed squad is to create Web development tools that make life better for Web developers

Developing With Web Standards | 456 Berea Street

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:14:26 -0700

If this guy doesn't know how to explain web-standards, who does?

All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:49:47 -0700

All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically

The Web Standards Project

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:38:46 -0700

Beauty in Design - Increasing User Experience With Javascript

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:05:55 -0700

101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:13:44 -0700

All the cool kids are using CSS to separate content from appearance on their sites. Here is 101 resources that will get your feet wet with CSS, teach you some new tricks and techniques, clean your code, and hit the ground running with pre-made layouts.