Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing… The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders. In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are
Usability guru shoot-out 5 (ok, 6) usability evangelists drive their ponies to the OK corral and basically agree that pages should load fast. Really not a bad read to summarize the tenants of Andrew Chak, Alan Cooper, Robert Davis and Paul Laroche, Jakob Nielsen & Jared Spool ZDNet: d e v e l o p
Uncle Sam and usability Your tax dollars at work! The U.S. Gov has a team of researchers working on projects you can download and use to determine and map various metrix of a new or existing site. NIST Web Metrics Home Page
WebTANGO:Automating Web Site Usability Evaluation The Group for Interface Research at UC Berkeley are working on a tool to automate the assessment of a web sites usability. Like an automated Jakob Nielsen! BAILANDO Project: WebTango