June 2007

As much reading, research, testing and study on all things user centered design, usability and accessibility that I do, what always sticks and leaves a lasting impression on me is when I watch someone try to use a web site application. The experience is unique to each individual. Some incidents leave a lasting impression [...]

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Mike Grehan let her rip at Clickz with SEO Is Dead. Long Live, er, the Other SEO by praising Google’s Universal Search. He tops it off by offering reasons for no longer needing the services of “SEO geeks”.
His point is that it no longer is enough to fluff up pages organically and hope they’ll [...]

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This month marks the next stop in the long running High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminars, as they set up in Denver, Colorado for a 2-day comprehensive study of organic search engine optimization and marketing techniques, June 28 - 29.
Geared towards small and medium businesses in a more intimate setting, the talks and workshops cover [...]

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According to Jakob Nielsen, web usability testing is now in its 14th year. Testing itself, as you know, is as old as time. How many humans suffered from upset stomachs before they finally tested and figured out that ginger settles things down? You have to figure that eons of time devoted to testing [...]

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Bryan Eisenberg, of FutureNow, has written an article called Web Marketing and Analytics: Process, Talent & Tools that raises several points about the practical, necessary work to be done in persuasive, user centered web site design.
Firstly, he talks about the need for someone who can take audit or test data and actually do something with [...]

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