Usability Bulletin. Issue number 20

Successful project - user oriented project

| What is common between a disabled person and the owner of a mobile phone?

| Screen reader application

| How is usability measured? Not exactly in parrots (part 2)

| Usability Calendar Is Back!

| John Schrag: The Power of Accurate Targets





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Successful project - user oriented project



Creating a project focused on user goals,

You can invent new convenient services. Moreover, it is possible to create social

communication around the goods, and it is successfully monetized! That's just ... What

will help to take into account the goals of your users? Marketing? Unfortunately, the "frontal"

The transfer to the Internet of the practice of ordinary marketing does not give a result.





What is common between a disabled person and the owner of a mobile phone?



Scientists from the University of Manchester (University of

Manchester) came to the unequivocal conclusion: input errors committed

users of mobile devices are of the same nature and nature as

observed in people with impaired motor functions of the limbs when working with

PC.



Screen reader application



IBM has developed an application that allows

users to make websites more accessible for people with limited

opportunities.





How is usability measured? Not exactly in parrots (part 2)



In the first part of the article, its author, the doctor of psychological

Sciences and Candidate of Technical Sciences A.N. Kostin, criticizes usability metrics by

ISO 9126-4 and ISO 9241-11 standards. They are blurred in content, incomplete, often

do not coincide with each other, and sometimes contradictory. In the second part of the article the author

justifies the need to develop new metrics on a new basis.



Usability Calendar Is Back!



We are pleased to inform all readers.

“Usability Bulletin” that we began to update our

Usability-Google-Calendar.





John Schrag: The Power of Accurate Targets



Design goals are specific tasks that

people will be able to perform using your product. Goals provide an opportunity to evaluate

quality design and manage the development process. With their help, you can solve

when the task is completed and whether it is possible to move on to another. Goals help

avoid unnecessary attention to irrelevant details and focus on

what is really important. They allow you to prioritize: what's worth

measure now and what to leave for later.