Search Results: usability
131 results for the term 'usability' ordered by relevance
13Jan2011
Usability Heuristics
Usability heuristics are ‘rules of thumb’ which are used to guide design decisions when designing a new site or application.
7Feb2011
User Centred Design vs Usability Testing
Usability experts in the past have argued that usability testing must be built into the design process and conducted at multiple points throughout the development cycle.
20Oct2005
Blog Design mistakes by Jakob Nielsen
With the rise and popularity of both personal blogs and corporate blogs, Jakob has published an article on Weblog Usability and The Top Ten Design Mistakes for blogs.
14Oct2009
What happens before a website goes into production?
At Wiliam, we have coined the phrase Pre-production for the work carried out before the graphical design and subsequent build of a web site. Pre-production encompasses both information design and usability design.
13Nov2009
Why undertake a competitor analysis on the web?
Competitor analyses can vary from high-level strategic analysis, looking at what strategies companies are currently undertaking and planning to undertake, to more low-level detailed analyses, such as usability evaluations.
13Oct2010
What is User Experience?
User Experience quite often gets confused with Usability – some people (including Information Architects and developers) think that if all the links are underlined, you have breadcrumbs and alt tags then you have designed the ultimate user experience.
14Sep2010
Expert usability reviews
Expert Reviews are exactly what they sound like and are used as an inexpensive way of reviewing an existing site to try and identify what the site is good at and what the site is not so good at.
10Dec2009
Forgettable web design
The human brain is not optimized for the abstract thinking and data memorization that websites often demand. Many usability guidelines are dictated by cognitive limitations.
8Oct2012
5Sep2013
How do you define which browsers are 'optimised' versus 'usable'?
When we scope a website, we need to define what browsers we will optimise the website for versus those browsers that the website will operate satisfactorily. It really comes down to budgets.
23Mar2011
Transaction reference numbers increase usability
I titled this blog so blatantly because it sounds like an oxymoron. A huge alphanumeric jumble of characters and the notion of increasing the usability of a web site doesn’t sound right.
2Jun2010
A small discussion on user research & testing
his week, Wiliam is making a presentation to the students of Billy Blue School of Design to help explain the importance of user testing and user research. In the presentation we used the subheadings ‘why, who, what and how’ in regards to implementing user research and testing.
16Mar2010
Why user test?
Web usability testing is highly important in ensuring your site works with your users. To truly test the site's usability it is more functional to do this after your site is finished to address common problems.
14Sep2010
Seven plus or minus 2 - Helping people process your website
With few exceptions, web information architects generally structure website information with the rule of “seven plus or minus two” in mind. This is designed to help break content into readable, usable and easy to digest chunks.
20Aug2009
Get To Know Your Competitors, They Could Be Your Best Friends
When I chat to people about getting a new site built, one of the first questions I ask is: who are your competitors and what are they doing online?
14Mar2008
What is Information architecture?
Everybody wants it, everybody says they do it, but what is Information architecture?
10Jun2014
Guerrilla user-testing.
This (out-in-the-wild) style user-testing is a no-frills, DIY approach
12May2010
Who Do You Test in User Testing?
When it comes to web design, usability testing is very important. Whether it is in pre-production, during production or looking at the final product, user testing can help make small but big changes to how your target audience views and uses your site.
17Aug2009
Good Design & Usability Shouldn’t Stop At The Home Page
Your website is on a job interview to first time visitors. Like a job interview where you will be judged firstly on your appearance than on your interaction the same goes for your website.
24Dec2008
Five Tips for Usability in Your Checkout Process
You may think you’re home free once a user clicks on the button to begin the checkout process. Too often, usability issues in your final process may cause potential buyers to back out of the deal. Here are five tips to help ensure your users will complete the sale successfully...
7Oct2008
User Centered Design and Your Website
Are you familiar with User Centered Design? If not, the concept is nearly as straight forward as it sounds. A User Centered Design method strives to involve the users in the development of a product as early and as often as possible. The goal is to produce something highly usable, ensuring a good user experience.
30May2013
Mobile first? Give it six months...
You can hardly even call it a trend anymore... mobile is the new king.
28Jun2012
Minimising the thought process equals great usability
Don't make users of your website think about anything.
12Jan2011
Design Fundamentals
There are alot of designers and design theorists out there writing about good and bad design, usability and conformity, colour theories and so on. And so on. And designers should read these articles, even if its rehashed, there is always a point being made. So here is a rough breakdown of some of those points....
6Oct2005
Google and Sun Microsystems partner with OpenOffice
Sun, Google will allow users to download OpenOffice via the Google website and users downloading Sun's java program will be given the option to download the Google toolbar. Will this partnership affect sales of MS Office, or will the usability and the still standing reputation of Microsoft's software draw users to carry on using Office?
2Apr2015
Designing for the gaps
All too often when web designers get a brief they are thinking about the pay off – the Call to Action – what are we driving users towards? But what surrounds that is important too.
12Sep2011
The pros and cons of online usability testing
Weighing up the pros and cons of online usability testing.
25Apr2007
Designing a Web 2.0 Website
A recent article Web 2.0 how to design style guide illustrated some very good examples of design elements that form the Web 2.0 design trends. The following articles discusses some the of elements and examples of their application within Wiliam’s client projects.
11Jul2011
Trends in Web Design: Horizontal and Vertical Parallax
In the past few years across the web we have seen a shift towards using parallax, mostly vertical uses. This is basically a way in which a website feels like its the one single page, with multiple layers to give it a three dimensional slant.
16Mar2010
Mobile e-Commerce – how user friendly is your site
Do you think your website is suitable for viewing on a mobile phone? Think again, there are several techniques that need to be considered with the usability of your website for mobile e-Commerce.
20Oct2009
Myspace bucks the social networking trend... and tanks...
The growth of social networking sites over the past year has been significant, according to Nielson Australian users spent 1.6 Million hours on Facebook and Twitter in June 2009, this is a 100% increase from June last year! According to Hitwise Facebook’s market share has increased 101% and Twitter’s grew by 1516% in the past year! Myspace however with its poor usability and slow page load times has managed to lose more than half its market share.
15Dec2008
Remaining Accessible: Mailto Links vs. Contact Forms
If you have a website or blog you probably want to provide a way for users to contact you directly and privately. While email is the perfect vehicle for this type of communication providing your address in a secure but usable manner may take some planning.
15Apr2015
18Mar2015
M-Commerce vs. E-Commerce
Mobile commerce is growing at three times the rate of e-commerce. Is your business ready for the mobile market?
10Jul2014
Design & development collaboration
These days we use the word ‘Design’ as relating to only the ‘visual appearance’ of a website. Although in this world of interactive web design functionality is just as crucial in the creative process.
21Jan2013
So close and yet so far... why a small user experience issue on My Special K ended the love affair
An example of poor usability… and a missed usability opportunity.
13Feb2012
uMobile: Managing your Umbraco website’s content from your phone
It is not just your customers who want to access your website on the go, often you may want to easily manage your website content while away from your desk.
25Oct2011
Introducing Develop My Skills
We’ve just launch the Develop My Skills website and the end-result is excellent. A really good looking and intuitive website with some clever user-targeting functions to improve leads to the business.
7May2010
Great design is about much more than great looks
Of all the various facets of web development, most people feel comfortable and confident when dealing with the design. After all, it’s not that hard to tell if a proposed design has followed the established brand guidelines and hit the mark aesthetically.
7May2010
The wonder of Google Mashups
We’ve already bogged about the recent integration of Google Earth into Google Maps. But we’re particularly excited that it has allowed a whole new world of mash-up goodness to become available.
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