Archive for the ‘Quickies’ Category
Quickie #4: Featuritis
Friday, December 5, 2008 1:27 No CommentsStop adding features. Too much features blur the main purpose of your application.
Quickie #3: Behavior vs. Opinion
Saturday, November 1, 2008 10:47 No CommentsUsability research is behavior-driven.
The quality data you get from people is:
what they do
what they fail to do
and how they do it
People’s opinion, should never be considered as input for usability research (you may find some usefull thoughts however).
Quickie #2: The User Experience Hype (UX-hip)
Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:10 No CommentsOver the last 5 years, “usability” and “user experience” have been often used (abused?) as buzz words to improve web designers/developers curriculae (and apparently improve their actual skills).
Most of these people never conducted a single usability test.
Quickie #1: In the end, It’s NOT About Interacting
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:10 No CommentsMost of the users don´t go to a website to interact with its beautiful and brilliantly designed interface.
They just want to go in, get stuff done, and get out. Take google.com as an example: People go in, search, and get out (the faster, the better).
If users don´t notice the interaction, the better. And this [...]

