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Ein paar Links zum Wochenende (zugegebenermaßen sehr UIE-lastig...):

Joshua Porter, Bokardo-Blogger, Mac-User, Usabiliteer und Berater bei UIE, interviewt Molly Holzschlag, Buchautorin (»The Zen of CSS Design« mit Dave Shea, »CSS: The Designer's Edge« u.a.) und Web Standards Queen: Web Standards in the Real World: »Another major problem is managing what I call OGS – Organic Growth Syndrome. We generate so many documents, for some teams, millions in a given day. We need to address server architecture, information architecture, and mass document management techniques as well as user experience and design. Standards help this in very specific ways, but it does mean going back and re-examining what we have and what needs to be done moving forward. [...]«

Jared Spool im Interview mit Dirk Knemeyer: »I learned quickly that business executives didn't care about usability testing or information design. Explaining the importance of these areas didn't get us any more work. Instead, when we're in front of executives, we quickly learned to talk about only five things [...]. Notice that the words 'design', 'usability', or 'navigation' never appear in these questions. We found, early on, that the less we talked about usability or design, the bigger our projects got. Today, I'm writing a proposal for a $470,000 project where the word 'usability' isn't mentioned once in the proposal.«

Nochmal Jared Spool: Streamlining Usability Testing by Avoiding the Lab: »The usability lab, with its fancy cameras, one-way mirrors, and comfortable observation suites, is often considered a can't-do-without necessity for conducting serious usability tests. Even those who feel it's not required will jump at the chance to use a lab when available. However, while studying successful projects over the years, we've found that usability testing can often be more effective when the team eliminates the lab from the process. [...]«
via Alp Uckan
Achtung Werbung: Die Software Morae, über die Spool schreibt, gibt es übrigens bei uns exklusiv zu kaufen: Usability-Testing mit Morae.

Joi Ito nach seinem Besuch in meiner »anderen Heimat« Südkorea über Korean Bloggers: »Korea is reported by the OECD to have the highest high-speed Internet penetration of any nation. Korea has an extremely vibrant gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager to find out more about what was going on.«

Marcus Völkel | 04.06.05 | Usability 

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