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<title>InfoDesign: Understanding by Design</title>
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<description>Dedicated to the growth and improvement of the information experience industries.</description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-13T01:16:36+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/link-list-color.html">Link List Color on Intranets</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Lists of links are an intermediate case between content-embedded links and menu items. Showing listed links in blue or in the site's main link color is the recommended design — and the one most intranets follow." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-05-13T01:16:36+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html">How Little Do Users Read?</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["On the average Web page, users have time to read at <i>most</i> 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-05-06T15:13:11+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/navigation-menu-alignment.html">Right-Justified Navigation Menus Impede Scannability</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Users scan lists by moving their eyes rapidly down the left edge. Menu items that are right-aligned make scanning more difficult." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-04-28T10:30:59+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/25-years-usability.html">25 years in usability</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Since I started in 1983, the usability field has grown by 5,000%. It's a wonderful job — and still a promising career choice for new people." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-04-21T10:59:04+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/bad-design.html">Four Bad Designs</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Bad content, bad links, bad navigation, bad category pages... which is worst for business? In these examples, bad content takes the prize for costing the company the most money." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-04-14T12:53:22+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/middle-aged-users.html">Middle-Aged Users' Declining Web Performance</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Between the ages of 25 and 60, people's ability to use websites declines by 0.8% per year — mostly because they spend more time per page, but also because of navigation difficulties." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-03-30T20:39:57+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designer-user-differences.html">Bridging the Designer–User Gap</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Depending on how representative designers are of the target audience, a project might need more or less user testing. Still, usability concerns never go away completely." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-03-17T08:06:19+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/satisfaction.html">Measuring satisfaction: Beyond the usability questionnaire</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Most usability tests culminate with a short questionnaire that asks the participant to rate, usually on a 5- or 7-point scale, various characteristics of the system. Experience shows that participants are reluctant to be critical of a system, no matter how difficult they found the tasks. This article describes a guided interview technique that overcomes this problem based on a word list of over 100 adjectives. We also include a spreadsheet to generate and randomise the word list." (<a href="http://www.userfocus.co.uk/about/profiles.html#Anchor-David-47857">David Travis</a> - <a href="http://www.userfocus.co.uk/index.html">Userfocus</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-03-03T14:18:14+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/microcontent-brand-names.html">Company Name First in Microcontent? Sometimes!</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Typically, you should deemphasize your company's name in links, but a new guideline recommends frontloading the name for search engine links under certain conditions." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-03-03T10:09:05+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/02/13/always-on-effective-ui-and-designing-experiences/"> Usability versus Searchability: Is it an Either/Or Proposition?</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Last fall at Adobe Max we talked with Adaptive Path's Jesse James Garrett about how to build Rich Internet Applications utilizing technologies like AIR and Flex while simultaneously making them underestandable and coherent to end users. The issue isn't just making them intuitive, but educating the public on what their purposes are, how they can be used, and, most importantly, what they can and cannot actually do." (<a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/">ScribeMedia.Org</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-02-25T21:49:20+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.html">Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-02-19T13:51:46+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/user-skills.html">User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-02-04T11:35:24+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/roi.html">Usability ROI Declining, But Still Strong</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The average business metrics improvement after a usability redesign is now 83%. This is substantially less than 6 years ago, but ROI remains high because usability is still cheap relative to gains." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-01-22T10:32:18+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intranet_design.html">10 Best Intranets of 2008</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Consistent design and integrated IA are becoming standard on good intranets. This year's winners focused on productivity tools, employee self-service, access to knowledgeable people (as opposed to 'knowledge management'), and better-presented company news." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2008-01-07T09:38:18+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-2.html">Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable." (<a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> - <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Alertbox</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:subject>Usability</dc:subject>

<dc:date>2007-12-19T09:43:49+01:00</dc:date>
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