Welcome to June’s NUX Manchester event We have 2 talks on at the next event, covering very different techniques in user testing. Book your place now http://nux-manchester-june.eventbrite.co.uk/ 1. Usability Testing in Your Toolbox In this interactive session the various types of usability testing will be explored. The aim is for people to share experiences [...]
Continue Reading →NUX Leeds 30 May: Remote Usability Testing
Presented by Ian Franklin (IFOnly Consulting) and Lee Duddell (What Users Do) In this interactive session the various types of usability testing will be explored. The aim is for people to share experiences of usability testing methods, how they have changed their testing approach and what they want from new testing methods. As technologies evolve [...]
Continue Reading →Next Leeds Event Monday 27th February – Accessibility in Practice
This session will be a practical look at Accessibility in action. Clare Davidson from SimpleUsability will be joined by Barry Hill, who has been using Jaws for the past 15 years. This session will give you the opportunity to see how Barry navigates his way through websites using Jaws assistive technology. We will then discuss [...]
Continue Reading →Got an idea? Fill in questionnaire to speak / listen to your preferred topics at future NUX Events
As 2011 draws to a close the steering committee for the NUX events has got together and decided that we would like to offer suggestions to the floor on what other people would like to hear about / speak about. If you have an idea that you feel passionate about or a topic that you think [...]
Continue Reading →Slides from Sarah Thew’s Talk
Here are the slides Sarah Thew kindly provided to accompany her talk on “Does Technology Make Any Difference In Our Social Life?” from the meeting on 5th July 2010. Sarah Thews slides: exploring users values motivations and emotions
Continue Reading →Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
There is an interesting eye tracking story over on the Google Blog, covering their results from some usability studies they carried out. Specifically: eye tracking to test the use of thumbnails in search results. Though the blog report is fairly brief, they did come to specific conclusion. Our studies showed that the thumbnails did not [...]
Continue Reading →Slides From Rob Knight’s Talk
Here are the slides (in PDF) from Rob’s talk on interaction between usability professionals and software developers given on 20th January 2009. interaction between usability professionals and software developers Sorry for the delay (Rob did send them promptly)
Continue Reading →Talk On Interaction Between Usability Professionals and Software Developers
I’m posting on behalf of Rob Knight, our lead technical architect at PRWD. Rob will be giving a talk at Tuesday 20th Jan’s meeting, on the subject of the interaction between usability professionals and software developers in delivering projects. The talk will cover the common pitfalls that both sides can make in failing to understand [...]
Continue Reading →Usability Event in Manchester 28th Jan
Some people may be interested to know of a free usability event being run by Manchester Digital on the 28th January 2009. I will be speaking at the event along with Judith Garmen and Pete Bagnall. It’s focused on helping business owners understand the importance of usability for both their internal and external facing websites [...]
Continue Reading →Negative Influence
I encountered this pop-up notice on a Flash-based T-Shirt editor application last night. It reads Loading Error A loading error occured [sic]. This might negatively influence the use of the application. Please reload the application if this occurs. Beside the spelling mistake, the euphemism for ‘the application might break’, it’s also not clear after which [...]
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