Image Source: Wikipedia AFB Consulting (AFBC), the consulting division of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), conducted a comprehensive accessibility and usability evaluation of the Discover 508 for SharePoint software from Discover Technologies of...
I picked up a book in Armedia's technical library by accident the other day, but have come to really appreciate the rewards of that serendipitous event. I first grabbed the book because of its author, Don Knuth, is a well-known innovator in the computer science world....
An approach for enhancing a customers’ satisfaction with Documentum’s built-in full text search capabilities is to provide them with a thesaurus of terms relevant to their industry, region, or business process. For example, suppose a user needs to find all the...
In the IT project world, conversations are technically based. In the business world, focus is on applications and business needs. This can (and often does) lead to the true personal value of these systems being overlooked. Armedia had been awarded a contract with...
Hey everybody, check out my latest blog post at www.ajmcclary.com. Here is a preview (and video below): Cognitive walkthrough’s are my favorite form of usability testing—and I do it so much, it’s almost exclusively the only type of usability testing that yields...
“Go forth and use this new product!”. I feel as if this happens more often than not, an existing product is re-developed, with not much in mind to the user, who has to use this new product. I was on a project recently, where this did not happen, and I’d like to...
My project uses a lot of HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript goodies. It works well and looks awesome... in Chrome 10 and Firefox 4. Our User Experience designer tells me it works well and looks awesome in Safari, too. Say, which browser is missing from the lists I just...
I've been experimenting with a really clever usability testing technique that uses human intelligence to collect quantitative data about a user's experience. The way a development project traditionally gathers this data is through conducting a study—gathering...