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Colour: User Experience And Psychology

April 9, 2012 by Jean Karl Izzo

Colour plays a crucial role in User Experience. It transmits a psychological message to your users and choosing the right colours for your brand, logo or product can be vital as it helps your brand or product get easily recognised and identified with your industry.

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Inviting Stakeholders To Usability Sessions: 14 Tips & Considerations For Email Invitations

March 26, 2012 by Eddie James

Sending out invitations for observing usability test sessions sounds easy. But to potential observers of your sessions, there are a lot of details they have to process in order to decide to add sessions to their over-crowded calendars. Here are 14 tips and considerations for designing better, more inviting email…

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Will the Internet Make Grammar Obsolete?

March 19, 2012 by Charlie Adams

Our society has become too busy. We’ve also become too accustomed to multitasking. Why wake up, enjoy a cup of coffee, read the paper and then take a shower when we can do it all at once instead? We sip our morning coffee while perusing the daily news at the…

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A 7 Step Guide to Website Usability

March 12, 2012 by Divya Rawat

The web is not an art gallery. And before all the art aficionados and web designers, take umbrage, let me clarify by stating that the net appreciates and requires usability. Keeping things simple and usable not only makes way for easier goal achievement but it also leads to higher conversion…

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5 Simple Guidelines To Improve Your Website’s Accessibility

March 5, 2012 by Alexsey Donets

With each and every passing day, the World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming more and more advanced. It has also established itself as one of the most vital and powerful resource of information, and a source abound with exciting possibilities. Sites have become the easiest and convenient forms of information…

An Evening Of Web Usability Justin Mifsud Caroline Jarrett Malta 2012

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An Evening of Web Usability – Malta, 2012

February 13, 2012 by Justin Mifsud

Tuesday 7th February 2012, will be remembered as a milestone in the Maltese Usability and User Experience (UX) calendar since the first usability conference “An Evening of Web Usability” was held. For this prestigious event which was hosted at the University of Malta, I had the honor of speaking alongside…

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USEFul – A Framework To Automate Website Usability Evaluation (Part 1)

January 30, 2012 by Justin Mifsud

In an earlier article on this blog, I have proposed automating website usability evaluation as a means towards mainstreaming website usability within web design and development companies. This is because I view automation as an excellent solution towards overcoming the limitations which are causing the development of websites with poor…

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5 Signs That Indicate Website Usability Problems

January 23, 2012 by Lisa E.

Web site usability is based on the factors that make it easy for a visitor to your website to accomplish his goals. For example, if someone wants to find your customer service contact information then a website maximized for usability will allow that information to be found in as few…

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10 Guidelines for Writing Usable and SEO Friendly Content

January 2, 2012 by Alexsey Donets

Effective search engine content can be termed as the content that appeals both to readers and search engines. It can be quite tricky as you are basically writing articles and reviews for readers, but at the same time it is search engines that take your contents to readers. It is…

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12 Effective Guidelines For Breadcrumb Usability and SEO

December 19, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

The term “breadcrumb” in web terminology is a metaphor for the way-finding technique employed by Hansel in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Although the metaphor is slightly misleading since within a web context, breadcrumbs do not always represent the path from which one has arrived at their…