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Usability Lab Tool
Downloads A tool for usability testing of Web sites. Create your usability test scenario with an easy-to-use graphic tool (Study Builder). Analyze the journal file with Excel to find potential 'deadlocks' in usability of your Web site.
[October 21, 2002, 21:59]
Intuit's Scott Cook on users, usability and MS
News In an exclusive interview, chairman Scott Cook told PCDN about his rivals, usability testing and his hopes for online financial services You talk a lot about usability but haven't other vendors caught up by implementing lab testing?
[April 10, 1997, 17:16]
Usability conference promises scents and sensible IT
Blog If you're involved in creating any sort of IT and don't care about usability, you're wasting your time, your users' time, and quite probably holding back the human condition from evolving to a higher form.
[August 19, 2009, 16:12]
Building a Global Corporate Library Portal: Usability Results and Design Implications
White Papers This paper presents the findings from usability studies that were conducted as part of efforts to build a global library portal site for a large high tech company. A series of five usability tests were conducted on five different corporate library...
[October 23, 2003, 3:18]
Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls
White Papers This paper assesses effective security of 13 personal firewalls by comparing possible granularity of rules as well as the usability of rule set-up and its influence on security. In order to evaluate usability, it has submitted each firewall to use...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Usability in Enterprise Customer Service Applications: The Impact to Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, and Profitability
White Papers This paper examines the current state of usability in enterprise customer service applications, and the benefits to an organization when those applications are highly usable. It explores how application providers, such as Oracle, are addressing...
[August 4, 2005, 6:00]
Usability Testing for Flash Applications
White Papers Only through comprehensive usability testing can ensure that an excellent user experience is built into the core of the internet application. Adobe's Flash technology has become one of the leading contenders in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Today is World Usability Day
Blog As a result of completing a fairly in depth look at accessibility issues for web designers I am rounding out my work on the subject by mentioning the fact that today is World Usability Day. A key theme appears to be that if you make your site more...
[November 13, 2008, 10:40]
IBM invests in mainframe usability
News IBM has introduced several usability improvements with its new mainframe operating system, z/OS V1R8, IBM said, and will focus its future work on four specific areas: IBM will spend $100m over the next five years to make its mainframe line easier...
[October 5, 2006, 9:25]
Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on
News Mozilla has launched a usability test plug-in for its open-source Firefox browser, in a bid to make testing and user feedback easier and more attractive. Test Pilot is Mozilla's programme to make usability and feature testing easier and more...
[August 14, 2009, 16:24]
Business apps get bad marks in usability
News Forrester Research conducted the software usability study, which it published last week. In their usability evaluation, Forrester analysts tried to perform a number of standard tasks with applications from 11 different ERP companies, including SAP...
[January 15, 2003, 8:12]
Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's usability wounds
Blog One of the problems with usability is that often what people tell you is the problem isn't really what's wrong. There's a mantra in usability of "Don't ask - observe", and it exists for a very good reason.
[June 16, 2009, 15:27]
New Technologies Enhance Usability and Developer Productivity for RSS Solutions
White Papers NewsGator is enhancing the usability of its RSS solutions by building on capabilities provided in new Microsoft software, including improved integration methods, an extensible object model, improved interactivity for Web applications, enhanced...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Liberty - is usability compatible with security?
News In the age-old trade-off between usability and security, many people see such systems as going too far in the direction of usability. The Liberty Alliance project aims to simplify the process of signing on to multiple Web sites, eventually allowing...
[July 16, 2002, 14:17]
Security and Usability
Member Review Despite more than a decade of research into computer usability, most security products remain resolutely user-unfriendly. This book examines how the situation can be improved.
[December 12, 2005, 8:23]
RSA pushes usability in security
News RSA Security is putting usability at the head of its product goals, as it hopes that future authentication products will be used more widely -- by administrators, not security specialists. John Worrall, marketing vice president of RSA, said...
[October 9, 2002, 9:31]
Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Source Software Development
White Papers This paper reviews literature on quality and usability assurance in Open Source Software (OSS) development, focusing specifically on OSS that is targeted at a large user population, which does not consist only of OSS developers anymore.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Taming the Usability Monster, one button at a time
Blog Talking of silicon/carbon interfaces, let's return to the curious case of usability. It will quantify the results, help manage the application of usability ideas by showing what works, and get people at all levels thinking about the human interface...
[September 14, 2008, 15:40]
Enhanced Diagnostics Improve Performance, Configurability, and Usability
White Papers Enhanced Diagnostic Tools for Intel Telecom Software deliver significant performance, configurability, and usability improvements for developing and deploying next-generation telephony applications quickly.
[December 26, 2006, 0:00]
Exploring Best Practices in Longitudinal Usability Studies
White Papers Longitudinal usability studies are increasingly becoming standard practice in the industry, but lack "Thought leadership" in the current literature. This paper will identify and disseminate best practices for longitudinal research by conducting an...
[December 5, 2008, 0:00]
