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I spend a lot of time buying and testing iPad apps for kids.
A Dad's Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
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Website testing, user testing, and market research done with Morae by TechSmith
Tobii Technology is a world leader in hardware and software solutions for eye tracking. Eye tracking enables a computer to tell exactly where a person is looking.
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Eye Tracking White Paper
Eye tracking commonly refers to the technique used to record and measure eye movements. The aim of this paper is to give a brief introduction to the human visual system, and to explain how eye movements are recorded and processed by Tobii Eye Trackers. Some basic concepts and issues related to remote eye tracking and eye movement data interpretation are also briefly discussed.Morae usability testing software from TechSmith
What’s New in Morae 3.3 Morae 3.3 comes equipped with real-time chat for communicating during testing, enhanced pluggable architecture for a customizable testing experience, improved eye-tracking capabilities, searchable table of contents for easy sharing, and more.
by anthony on 08/04/11 at 10:05 pm Icons are visual cues that help users use interfaces more efficiently.
Why Distinct Icon Outlines Help Users Scan Faster
9 Rules to Make Your Icons Clear and Intuitive
by anthony on 10/31/11 at 9:09 am Have you ever looked at an icon and struggled to figure out what it meant? Users do this all the time with icons they’re not familiar with.
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Published by Chris Coyier Keyword Valid options for setting font-size in keyword are xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large , and xx-large as well as relative keywords smaller and larger .
Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?”
Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves
Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text?
Depending on who you follow and what you read, you may have noticed the concept of “responsive text” being discussed in design circles recently. It’s not what you might imagine — resizing and altering the typography to make it easier to read on a range of devices — but rather delivering varying amounts of content to devices based on screen size.
Media Queries
Abstract HTML4 and CSS2 currently support media-dependent style sheets tailored for different media types . For example, a document may use sans-serif fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed. ‘ screen ’ and ‘ print ’ are two media types that have been defined.10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key.Hick's Law , named after British psychologist William Edmund Hick , or the Hick–Hyman Law (for Ray Hyman ), describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has. The Hick-Hyman Law assesses cognitive information capacity in choice reaction experiments.
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By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work.
9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design
CSS Text-Rendering
This morning I saw a couple of tweets from @seangaffney and @maxvoltar about the CSS text-rendering property, which is in the W3C Working Draft . Aesthetically Loyal has outlined the differences in kerning pairs and browser support for text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; quite nicely, and after seeing how well capital As, Vs, Ys and Ts display I had to test it for myself . Similar to Kyle Meyer’s experiment , I noticed a significant improvement and added the property to my body CSS for this site.Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The guide may have missed one. The iPad entire hand finger open then closing together to return to home. by Nov 22
The Relevance of User Experience: Using Every Opportunity to Impress Users
AN GREAT QUOTE - "a recent epiphany I had when thinking about software UX: its all ones and zeroes. Every single bit of it. All we are selling is what you do with it, and how." by Nov 22
LOVED THIS QUOTE - By capitalizing on a best not first strategy, the combination of marketing and critical mass reached the large, profitable group of non-tech savvy users. by Nov 22