Check out the new Financial Times re-design, pretty nice and neat if you’re asking me.
Stuart Glendinning Hall
IT-Usability —
Category Archives: IT-Usability
Do you have a shy website?
Nice way of approaching the age-old question of making sites more engaging - make them less ’shy’.
SEO using Images
People like me go on about SEO strategies revolving around keywords, and rightly so. But the top ranking content items on my blog are consistently reached through great Google Images search SEO. Works for me.
Shift handover research gets
Just stumbled across the good news that
Shift handover research gets
Just stumbled across the good news that
Buttons & usability
Joking about lift button design with my colleagues today I recalled that internet usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently admitted to a contract for just such a task (though doubt he contributed to the Random Lift Button project from Chris Speed, where you press a button marked ‘R’ and it takes you to a random floor):
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Out of the box
Neat marketing phrase I came up with: “An out-of-the-box solution which works straight out-of-the-box.”
New study finds all-round skills are key for internal communicators
“Internal communicators need good all-round skills and tend not to specialise too heavily”, according to new research. These findings from Competent Communicators’ Sue Dewhurst and Liam FitzPatrick “challenge common views that the best professionals are focused on providing strategic advice rather than getting involved in delivery work”, which makes sense to me;-)
Wisdom of the crowd?
With many sites there are rankings these days for products and services. For example Lovefilm.com. Now pardon me but could I request that the ranking is not based on the average, but the median. Kinda avoids one fool bringing down the rating!
PS: In a wider context it’s all about ‘creating passionate users‘ where “being safe [...]
Altavista vs Google
Sorry to be (once again) working against the popular trend but has anyone else noticed that Altavista is a rival search engine to Google!? It’s only based on two experiements..