News
> Toronto, Canada: August 9-14 (first-ever Canadian Usability Week)
> San Francisco, CA: October 3-8
> Copenhagen, Denmark: October 18-22
> Edinburgh, Scotland: October 25-29
Full-day seminars, including
> IA 1 (structure) & IA 2 (navigation)
> Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
> Apps Design 1 (GUI) & Apps Design 2 (workflow)
> Social Features on Mainstream Websites
> Writing for the Web (2-day seminar)
> The Human Mind: How Your Users Think
Free Usability Test of Your Intranet
In our next round of intranet research, experts from NN/g will conduct a usability test of your intranet at your offices and give you the results in a post-test meeting with your team, for no fee.
Deadline August 13
The Guardian The art of slow reading Has endlessly skimming short texts on the internet made us stupider?
The Guardian Jakob Nielsen critiques the iPad's usability failings
Daily Telegraph Apple iPad apps need more consistency, says usability guru (includes 3-minute video where I demo some inconsistencies in iPad apps)
BusinessWeek Hardware Is Meaningless. It's About the Apps (a debate about value in the mobile space — my position is that tight integration between hardware and software is what we need)
WIRED Interface Expert Knocks iPad Apps for Inconsistent Usability
Monocle Lessons learnt from the iPad
BusinessWeek World's 28 most influential design "movers and shakers" (including Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman)
Net@Night Why is Web design still often bad? (podcast show with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur; 66 minutes streaming audio; my segment starts at the 21:40 mark)
TIME Magazine Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others
Web Designer Depot Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen
USA Today Mobile web a throwback to the '90s
BusinessWeek Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter
Intranet Journal Social Networking Transforms the Best Intranets
Wall Street Journal The Latest Buzz On... Interface Design
PC Pro Recipe for a billion-dollar website
BBC Web users 'getting more selfish'
Practical Ecommerce Bloglist
The Guardian The web design guru that web designers love to hate
Search Engine Land Jakob Nielsen On Search Usability
BusinessWeek Google Is Making You Dumber
BBC Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'
E-consultancy Interview with Jakob Nielsen
CIO 5 Things I've Learned
ZDNet Usability makes business sense
SitePoint Interview with Jakob Nielsen
Wall Street Journal For Web-Design Expert, Ease of Use
And Clarity Are Essential for Firms
Washington Post If This Column Were a Web Site, This Would Be Its Home Page
The Guardian Two words is a minute description of a human need
USA Today Survey offers a 'sneak peek' into Net surfers' brains
BusinessWeek The Unwieldy Web
CNN Tech will cause a real estate crash
WIRED What Websites Do to Turn On Teens
BBC A decade of good website design
Full list of interviews
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