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March 2006

UW Libraries - Guide to Planning and Conducting Usability Tests

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This document is meant to provide a foundation for your next usability test. Pages found here borrow heavily from Jeffrey Rubin's Handbook of Usability Testing.

February 2006

Design centrado em quê? [ Mercado Web ]

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Identifiquei alguns centros comuns e incomuns no Design de Interação, mas deve ficar claro que eles podem acontecer em conjunto e mudar no decorrer do projeto:

Past Issues - UI Design Newsletter

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Kath Straub, Ph.D., CUA, Chief Scientist of HFI, looks at how to select the best menu presentation style for a given application.

January 2006

Úsalo. Usabilidad para todos: Madrid 2012 fracasó por un problema de usabilidad

Un problema de usabilidad de la interface de votación fue la causa de que Madrid no organizara los juegos olímpicos de 2012.

MGS User Research - Home

Games User Research at Microsoft Game Studios

ivogomes.com » Wireframes

No seguimento do projecto em que estou a trabalhar, depois de realizados e testados os protótipos em papel1 chegou a hora de passar os esboços para wireframes.

November 2005

Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development

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A lot of us are fans of tabbed browsing. It's one of the most useful changes in window and document management since the Task Bar on Windows. People who like to work with multiple documents like quick, convenient access to them. It's part of the reason Microsoft moved Office to a SDI model. That said, Firefox is a browser for everybody, and a lot of people don't use a lot of windows. In one of the PDC videos released a month or so back, a Microsoft representative said that they had done studies that showed that users generally had no more than 5 windows open at a time. This surprised them because they, like most of us, were used to browsing with tens of windows. The challenges that face us building the Firefox UI is how to make Tabbed Browsing useful to those who want it, discoverable to those whose lives would be made easier by it, and transparent to those who don't need it.

Web Essentials '05: Bringing a Web conference to the Web, by Jeffrey Veen

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"Last week I spoke at Web Essentials '05, an invigorating conference in Sydney, Australia. The folks attending were so engaged and excited"

October 2005

Anti-Mac

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By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principlesbehind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interfaceemerges that is based on language, a richer representationof objects, expert users, and shared control.

Functioning Form - AJAX Dialog Windows

Though we might not be seeing the death of the “page” in Web sites just yet, technologies like AJAX do enable Web-based interface designs to incorporate dynamic functionality within smaller, modular UI elements.

ivogomes.com » Os 10 maiores erros de webdesign em 2005

Anualmente, Jakob Nielsen publica uma lista dos 10 erros mais comuns existentes na Internet. A lista deste ano acabou de sair.