Usability Bulletin. Issue number 26

Community UX Russia | Computer technology for the blind | Examine User: A Quick Online Survey Guide | Toolbox: Axure RP Pro 5.1 | Website usability and perception of advertising in RuNet | New [Usability] Year: Let's go


UX Russia Community
People who participate in the annual User Esperience Russia conferences organized a network community to make the world more comfortable. So, not much and not enough.

Computer technology for the blind
On December 4, the 7th scientific-practical conference "Information technologies for the visually impaired in the modern world", timed to the International Day of Disabled Persons (December 3), will be held in the conference hall of the Institute "Reakomp". During the conference, an exhibition of specialized hardware and software will be held.
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Examine User: A Quick Online Survey Guide
The Usability Bulletin continues a series of publications on User Experience 2008 materials. Those who could not attend this conference now have the opportunity to get acquainted with the reports of participants in the Usability Bulletin. Today is a report by Ruslan Kryuchkov (UsabilityLab) on online user research.

Toolbox: Axure RP Pro 5.1
Before Axure, people used many tools that came to one degree or another. There is no ideal, universal tool that would be suitable for all tasks, otherwise it would be called a “magic wand”. Although Axure RP Pro 5 is already close to that definition. Let's see what's what.

Website usability and perception of advertising in RuNet
What does “banner blindness” really look like? What is the most visible position in the contextual advertising module?

New [Usability] Year: Let's go!
As you know, usability professionals celebrate the New Year not on January 1, but when World Usability Day is happening. This is a floating date - the second Thursday of November - this year fell on 13/13/08. On this day, UPA Russia held a festive web seminar on the “transport” theme of the WUD-2008: “Information kiosks and transport”.