Tag Archives: usability

14 Jan

Internet Ads – What works and what doesn’t [Eye Tracking/Usability Study]

By sinha 1 Comment
Internet Ads – What works and what doesn’t [Eye Tracking/Usability Study]

Usbility guru, Jakob Neilsen along with Kara Pernice has launched his book, Eyetracking Web Usability that has findings from eyetracking studies that they conducted by bouncing infrared beams off a person’s retinas and recording head movements with a camera. Interesting … Read More »

 
07 Jan

Can Product Usability be an afterthought?

By Guest Author 2 Comments
Can Product Usability be an afterthought?

My observation is that most organizations do not pay attention to the product usability while building their products. The myriad reasons, cited by misinformed product managers, product developers or management executives for not being able to address product usability during … Read More »

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03 Jul

Building an eCommerce Store? Usability Tips that will help you Kick Butt

By sinha No comments
Building an eCommerce Store? Usability Tips that will help you Kick Butt

[Our fortnight theme of ‘Designing an ecommerce product’ has got an amazing response and here is an article from Anshul (he earlier ran a series on ecommerce in India – Challenges and Opportunities) - Most of the times, making a … Read More »

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02 Jul

Key elements in coloring your web app / website!

By arvind 9 Comments

Did you know how to choose colors for your portal? Well, if you are an entrepreneur then either you gotta have an eye for the right combo of colors or some good money to hire a great designer to do … Read More »

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12 Jun

Usability Tip – One Click Less!

By Nishith Rastogi 4 Comments
Usability Tip – One Click Less!

Why do people use Facebook and Orkut to poke their friends (instead of emailing them?) How can you make a product simpler by following ‘one-click-less’ phenomena? Read More »

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20 May

Useful Resources on Web Design, Usability

By sinha No comments

Few useful resources for all things usability. Usability Checklist Irrespective of who you are and what your site is all about, you should take a

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19 Nov

Do you follow any Usability Principle?

By sinha 7 Comments

Will you go by the below mentioned usability principle? “Perfection is not when there is more to add, but when no more to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exuper Is this a good principle to follow while

 
13 Nov

How Should Startups conduct Usability Testing?

By sinha 16 Comments
How Should Startups conduct Usability Testing?

Now that you have launched your product, you do expect some traction. So you go pally with media/bloggers/PR guys – and within a few months, you have a decent traffic to your site. And you launch more features to keep … Read More »

 
03 Jun

Web users are getting more ruthless and impatient – Search Engines scores over Content portals?

By sinha 10 Comments

Usability guru, Jakob Nielsen shares an interesting finding that goes against the wishes of content portals: Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave. Most ignore efforts to make … Read More »

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