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Jakob's column on Web usability

Browser and GUI Chrome (January 30)
"Chrome" is the user interface overhead that surrounds user data and web page content. Although chrome obesity can eat half of the available pixels, a reasonable amount enhances usability.

Thinking Aloud (January 16)
10 Best Intranets of 2012 (January 3)
Overloaded vs. Generic Commands (December 19)

435 Alertbox columns from 1995 to 2012

Reports

Agile usability
Application design showcase: 10 best App UIs
Intranet usability
> Intranet design annual
> Enterprise 2.0
> Intranet portals
> Design guidelines for intranets, vols. 1-10
> Intranet IA
> Sector-specific: financial, government, tech
E-commerce (13 vol. series) and B2B sites
Email newsletters
Return on investment for usability (ROI)
Age groups: Children, Teens, Students, Seniors
Donations to non-profits
Corporate sites: company image, PR, IR
Mobile sites

More reports and usability guidelines

Training Video

Paper prototyping: 40 minute how-to video (Blu-Ray & DVD)

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Usability Week 2012 Conference

> New York City: Feb. 26 – March 2
> Las Vegas: March 11-16 (includes 3-Day Camp)
> Edinburgh: March 19-23
> San Francisco: April 2-7
> Amsterdam: April 23-27
> Washington, DC: May 14-18

Full-day training courses, including
> IA 1 (structure) & IA 2 (navigation)
> Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
> Mobile Sites & Touchscreen Apps
> Visual Design for Mobile (2-day course)
> Apps Design 1 (GUI) & Apps Design 2 (workflow)
> Web Page Design & Emerging Design Patterns
> Writing for the Web (2 days) & Writing for Mobile
> The Human Mind: How Your Users Think
> UX Basic Training

Tweets from the conferences

BBC The Daily Mail has mastered the art of the long website headline

Fox News Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives?

New York Times As Kindle Fire Takes Heat, Remedies Are Promised

BusinessWeek Voice Control, the End of the TV Remote?

TabTimes User interface guru Jakob Nielsen: "Right now I think Kindle Fire is a bad bargain"

Sydney Morning Herald Computers: you don't know what you don't know ... but techs think you should

ClickZ Usability for Mobile Sites and Apps

uTest.com Testing the Limits

The Independent Website redesign: Why do we get so angry when the websites we love update their look?

Ironworks Video report from Usability Week San Francisco (2:34 min. video)

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