Web in Focus

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Sum­mary:

A les­son in usabil­ity gleaned from a bad operation’s deci­sion at an already quirky hotel.

Episode Top­ics:

• User’s want infor­ma­tion, quickly and easily
• Advan­tages of user testing
• move­ment for more than 2 sec­onds, tran­si­tion quickly
• dan­gers of sound
• avoid move­ment
• first impres­sions count
• Atten­tion Deficit… Oh, Some­thing Shiny
• avoid Wel­come text

Books men­tioned:

• Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
• Pri­or­i­tiz­ing Web Usabil­ity, by Jakob Nielsen
• Infor­ma­tion For­ag­ing The­ory: Adap­tive Inter­ac­tion with Infor­ma­tion, by Peter Pirolli

Web­sites men­tioned: Use It