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Alertbox

Jakob's column on Web usability

Testing Expert Users (January 25)
It's more difficult to conduct usability studies with experienced users than with novices, and the improvements are usually smaller. Still, improving expert performance is often worth the effort.

10 Best Intranets of 2010 (January 4)
Anybody Can Do Usability (December 21)
Short-Term Memory (December 7)

All Alertbox columns from 1995 to 2010

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
Email newsletters
E-commerce and B2B sites
Return on investment for usability (ROI)
Age groups: Children, Teens, Seniors
Donations to non-profits
Corporate sites: "About Us", PR, IR
Social media postings and RSS feeds
Mobile sites

More reports and usability guidelines

Film

Paper prototyping: how-to video (32 minute DVD)

About This Site

Why this site has almost no graphics
Copyright and reprint rules

News

Usability Week 2010 Conference

> Atlanta, GA: February 22-26
> New York, NY: March 22-26
> Chicago, IL: April 19-24
> London, UK: May 16-21

3-Day Camp: Usability in Practice (Chicago only)

Full-day seminars, including
> IA1 (structure) & IA2 (navigation)
> Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
> Apps design 1 (GUI) & Apps design 2 (workflow)
> Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites
> Writing for the Web (2-day seminar)
> The Human Mind: How Your Users Think

Washington Post Flash panned (about Flash on the iPhone)

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)

All Things Considered What's The Allure Of Tablet Computers? (NPR radio show; 4 minutes audio clip)

New York Times M.T.A. to Unveil a Makeover of Its Web Home

TIME Magazine The Paperless Chase (about online financial statements)

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

Financial Times If granny would disapprove, don’t put it on the net

Boston Globe I screen, you screen, we all screen (about reading from screens)

BusinessWeek Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter

Intranet Journal Social Networking Transforms the Best Intranets

Forbes Touch Screens Everywhere

Wall Street Journal The Latest Buzz On... Interface Design