Archive for the 'usability' Category

Gary wrote a post entitled For­get Select — it is Browse, Browse, Browse in which he was sur­prised by the res­ults of a usab­il­ity test involving a select list, or more spe­cific­ally users ignor­ing the select. I was not sur­prised by the res­ults of Gary’s test, and for a long time have only used select […]

I just signed up for RobotRe­play beta, a ser­vice that cap­tures vis­it­ors every mouse move­ments, click and key­stroke and it is free ser­vice at the moment.

I do not want to track your every mouse move, click or key­stroke on this site, I know what most the prob­lems are with this site and will fix it with the next redesign. What I really want to do is have a good look at RobotRe­play, because it could be very use­ful for a couple of upcom­ing projects …

I had inter­est­ing time try­ing to get home and con­tent insur­ance quotes online. Most of Australia’s major insur­ance com­pan­ies and brokers have online applic­a­tions to provide quotes online. The prob­lem is that of the six I tried, five deman­ded that I use Inter­net Explorer. Most required IE 5.0 though one wanted me to upgrade to the latest and greatest Inter­net Explorer 4.0. …

Another event to plug, you will find the offical inform­a­tion over on the Web Stand­ards Group and organ­iser Kay provides more details on her stand­ards blog, includ­ing almost say­ing nice things about me ;-).

I will be doing a present­a­tion on the but­ton ele­ment, going into more detail that what I have already done here. Do not worry if you are not loc­ated in this obscure corner of the world called Perth, West­ern Aus­tralia. I will post the present­a­tion here and the scary part is that it should be pod­cast as is hap­pen­ing with most WSG events.

You get remind­ers on usab­il­ity from the strangest places