Usability

Usability Testing: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

By Chris Poteet on August 18, 2011

I was recently selected to speak at the SPSEMEA SharePoint Saturday. For the talk I wanted to talk about the often forgotten art of usability testing on SharePoint projects. All of the content is generic and applicable enough that you don’t have to be implementing SharePoint to get something from this presentation. The content is […]

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Lost in Translation: User-Centered Design

By Chris Poteet on January 20, 2011

It’s very easy when you’re constantly engaged in design work to use terms and phrases that you know mean something, but consistently they are taken to mean something else. One of the worst offenders in the design world is the phrase: “user-centered design.” It has led to more misunderstandings and mistakes then I’d care to […]

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Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

By Chris Poteet on June 3, 2010

There are designers on both sides of the DHTML menu issue. Some are liberal to use them and have no issue with them, and there are others (including myself) who think it’s not the ideal solution to a navigational structure. Navigation is unquestionably the most important part of any web application, and if it is […]

Posted in Design, Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience, User Interface | Tagged best practice, dhtml, javascript, menus, navigation | Leave a response

Usability

Usability Testing: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

Lost in Translation: User-Centered Design

Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

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