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12
Jul 2007

Usability Testing Protocol

A usability testing protocol is a document that describes how to conduct usability testing. It’s also the spring board for discussions between Yu Centrik and..

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04
Jun 2007

E-Commerce and User Behaviour

Recent research has shown that people can pass judgement on a stimulus after having been exposed to it for only 50 milliseconds (Lindgaard, Dudek, Fernandes..

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16
Apr 2007

3 Online Shopping Sites = 3 Difficult Experiences

There’s nothing like a real-life experience to evaluate a transactional Website. Here’s a realistic experience: we were looking for several high-tech products and wanted to..

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02
Feb 2007

Happy New Year 2007!

My goodness, how time flies! The end of January is already in sight and we still haven’t wished you, our dear readers and users, a..

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31
Aug 2006

"Beauty and the Bad"

We live in a world where aesthetics do matter. Whether in our social interactions or any other forms of interactions, aesthetics play a significant role..

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21
Aug 2006

“Evolution, not Revolution”… And so He was right!

One aspect of our jobs as usability consultants is to make sure the products of our clients can be used with ease, efficiency, effectiveness and..

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03
Aug 2006

Reflections on the Importance of Feedback in Human-Computer Communications

You may have noticed that email programs sometimes behave a little strangely when they’re being bombarded by spam and other invisible threats. The lack of..

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19
Jul 2006

The digital Telepathy: from fiction to reality

Can we communicate without words, gestures nor mimics and remotely? The Parapsychology confirms it, however the objective sciences were less convinced until the 13th of..

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05
Jul 2006

To what extent do we know our internet users?

We often have an abstract and generic image of the “intermediate internet user”. In fact, many of us have a certain tendency to believe that..

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10
May 2006

Diary of a cellphone

In a previous blog, Chrystel demanded the end of useless interface functions and I thought it would be interesting to follow her lead and identify..

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