I love how Dr. Pete Myers, of UserEffect.com, created this educational 4 minute video called What Is Usability?. It’s part of his experimenting with a new “Ask Dr. Pete” section on his web site.
Dr. Peter J. Meyers (AKA “Dr. Pete”) is the President of User Effect, a former start-up executive, cognitive psychologist, and lifelong programmer. For the past 11 years, Dr. Pete has worked directly with business owners and executives to understand their goals, get to know their customers, and improve their online return on investment.
Kudos to you Pete. That was quite fun to watch!
About cre8pc
Kim Krause Berg’s long background in web design, SEO and usability includes software application functional and user interface testing, accessibility, information architecture and persuasive design. She shared her passion for Usability and SEO through her site and private consulting at Cre8pc for 17 years. Kim founded Cre8asiteforums in 1998. In the fall of 2012 she sold her forums to Internet Marketing Ninjas and retired from private consulting to join their Executive Management team where she continues her work in usability testing, customer experience and conversions design.
My Online Course:
Web Site Usability 101
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American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Information Architecture Institute
Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
Thanks for the link…I don’t think I would have stumbled across this otherwise. It was a really good presentation.
Thanks, Kim
It’s amazing how, as a group, we usability people have somehow made it so hard to understand what usability is. Despite what we preach, we often have the worst impulses of techies and academics. I’m just trying to step down from the ivory tower a bit more often.
User-centered design is important because if Web site is not useful to users, users will not visit the Web site. Web site must meet users’ needs and users must find information when they visit the site. Designers must consider who the users of Web site are, what information users need, and more.
I always focus on navigation and usabilty rather then strange design.
White background and stable colors are best.
I have made the mistake of appealing to G rather than my users. Appealing to users first will hopefully sit well with G!