by Theo Mandel | Aug 18, 2009 | Application Usability, Marketing Usability, Real-World Usability, Usability Bloopers, Usability Humor, User Centered Design (UCD), Web Usability
Seth Godin, bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change in his Gel 2006 video. Why are so many things broken? In this entertaining talk – one of the favorites of Gel 2006 – Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the reasons why they...
by Theo Mandel | Jul 8, 2009 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Technology
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by Theo Mandel | Jun 26, 2009 | Application Usability, Prototyping, User Centered Design (UCD), Web Usability
Most UI/usability/information designers/architects create various types of wireframes when we design. This article discusses the different types of wireframes and their pros and cons. The article also shows good examples of diffferent types of wireframes and the final...
by Theo Mandel | May 28, 2008 | Application Usability, Web Usability
Practitioners can always use good advice. David Crow, usability adviser at Microsoft Canada, and Jay Goldman, president of Radiant Core in Toronto, speaking at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium at Seneca College in Toronto last month, offered a 12-step...
by Theo Mandel | May 23, 2008 | Application Usability, User Centered Design (UCD)
The Business Technology Blog in Wall Street Journal describes a software vendor’s study: IFS, a business-software vendor, sent us a report titled
by Theo Mandel | Nov 14, 2007 | Application Usability, Technology, User Centered Design (UCD), Web 2.0, Web Usability
I conducted eye-movement research on reading comprehension in my graduate work on my M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology back in the early 80’s. Eye-tracking hardware and software have come a long way since then and they provide very interesting analyses of...
