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Information Architecture Validation Software Take the guesswork out of information architecture with Treejack – the usability testing tool you can use to test your IA without visual distractions. Treejack helps you prove your site structure will work before you get into interface design. Tree testing is a usability technique for evaluating the findability of topics in a website. It’s also known as ‘reverse card sorting’ or ‘card-based classification’. Easy as 1,2,3 “It is so fast and easy to set up that it's really crazy not to use it.” – Jason Holmes, American Greetings Proving an Information Architecture 1. Your “tree” is the site structure, your information architecture. 2. We're here to find out if people can achieve what they came for on your website or intranet. 3. We give you a unique study link that you can email to your users and customers, tweet to the world, or give to a participant recruitment agent or consultant. All systems are Go “Oh yes. User Centered Information Design Sign up

UserTesting Color Name & Hue - Iceweasel It is always a problem for me to assign a certain color to a main hue. If you struggle also with this because of your color blindness, Color Name & Hue might help you. Try it out. With this little tool you can either enter RGB (Red-Green-Blue) values, HSB (Hue-Saturation-Brightness) numbers or a hexadecimal code for a color, to find its closest match of a named color and its corresponding hue. It is also possible to just use the sliders to see how color hues are changing. The list of colors comprises 1640 different color names extracted from several sources on the web. The color name is matched to one of the following main color hues: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Brown, Black, Grey, and White. I always wanted to have such a tool because it’s fascinating for me to see matching color hues of colors I just can’t categorize. Thanks Chirag Mehta for Name that Color and letting us use his JavaScript code. I tried to check the color hues as good as possible.

Fake - Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple. Mac OS X Web Automation and Testing Made Simple. Understanding a few simple concepts will help you get the most out of Fake: Use Fake to automate tedious web tasks by dragging discrete Actions into a sequence of runnable, repeatable, savable steps called a Workflow. Action - a basic step, or unit of work, to be performed on the current webpage. Fake comes with more than two dozen Actions such as: Load URL, Do JavaScript, Set Value of HTML Element, Submit Form, and many more. Actions come from the Action Library and are combined to form a Workflow. Userscripts and Userstyles - allow you to alter any webpage by executing custom JavaScript or evaluating custom CSS when the page loads.

Add a REST API to any SQL DB in Minutes Have you got SQL data that you need to access from your mobile apps? If so, DreamFactory provides an easy and secure way to add a REST API to any SQL database. With the open-source DreamFactory Services Platform (DSP) all you have to do is create a service for your database, then use our built-in REST API to access that service. Each DSP comes with its own MySQL database that's accessable via the 'db' and 'schema' services. In this blog post we'll build on that and show how to add additional services to your DSP to access any remote SQL database. Then we'll show some simple examples of how to use the REST API to manage your remote SQL schema and data. If you're a screencast kind of person, we have a screencast on this topic here. If you don’t have a DreamFactory account, sign up here. Setting Up the Service The first step is to go to your DSP and set up a service for your remote SQL database. Set the service type to 'Remote SQL DB' and give it an API name. Access Control Adding a New Table