Guerilla User Testing: Give Your Site a Reality Check
There’s no head slap like the head slap you give yourself while watching an innocent visitor stumble through … Read more.
Notable Links: January 23, 2012
How Esquire Survived Publishing’s Dark Days (NY Times) Kindle Fire is disappointing: Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says it … Read more.
10 Tips for Launching Almost Anything
Recently I spoke to a meeting of the Left Coast Writers at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, … Read more.
Smart Website Redesign: Get Your MagsU Slides Here
I had a great time chewing over various aspects of Web publishing with all the smart, friendly folks … Read more.
How to Write Text Links (Think Display Copy)
If your site uses a conventional, easily recognized visual scheme for text links—and it should—the words making up … Read more.
Nine Steps to a Successful Website Redesign
1. Read the tea leaves | 2. Set goals | 3. Get the big buy-in | 4. Spin … Read more.
Four Mistakes Web Sites Still Make, And How to Fix Them
Next month at Stanford’s Publishing on the Web Conference, we’ll be giving a talk titled “10 Mistakes Web … Read more.
‘Time Spent’–a Better Metric of Web Engagement?
Nielsen/NetRatings is changing the way it measures audience engagement on Web sites. It is replacing visitors’ page views … Read more.
Cool Customization: Users Choose Their Own Tabs
One of the handiest new wrinkles in Web design is the use of tabs to provide many different … Read more.
Assignment Zero Launches Pro-Am Journalism Site
An intriguing new species in the world of online collaborative journalism has just been hatched. Assignment Zero is … Read more.
