Jakob Nielsen is a well-known guru in the usability world. He has done a lot to bring usability to the forefront of software engineering. In one of his alertboxes, he does a quick assessment of WP7. ---------------------------------- From: Jakob Nielsen Sent: 8/15/2011 9:54 AM To: Alertbox Announcement...

Don Norman posted an article about the realities of design in industry and how going through the ideal process of doing research first, then going through ideation/prototyping/iteration is not necessarily optimal. Why it is not necessary to start with design research Here are five very different...

I recently recorded a video for Silverlight TV on Quick and Dirty Ux Testing. My goal was to give three techniques that anyone can use to easily, quickly and cheaply test their products. Silverlight TV Episode These techniques can be used for any software product, large or small, Mac or PC, Web...

World Usability Day is just around the corner. The overall theme is "Communication" which is vitally important to making usable products. Microsoft participates in World Usability Day and hosts a number of different talks and activities. The three areas that will be focused on are: People, User Interface...