video of user confused with the word 'form' User is asked to 'fill out the form below' but fails to find the form. Name/email text input fields are in plain sight. (tags: usability testing microcopy)
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links for 2011-07-20
Jon A. Krosnick Page of Jon A Krosnick, who does research on attitude formation, change and effects, on the psychology of political behavior and on survey research methods. (tags: survey research)
links for 2011-03-17
Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions Webopedia is an online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology. (tags: dictionary internet reference)
links for 2011-03-09
House of Buttons A collection of UI buttons spotted in the wild curated by Jason Long. (tags: buttons gallery inspiration design)
links for 2011-03-04
All Our Ideas – A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age All Our Ideas is a platform that enables groups to collect and prioritize ideas in a transparent, democratic, and bottom-up way. It’s a suggestion box for the digital age. Method: pairwise comparison. Results get a score: a percentage that reflects the chance that this …
links for 2011-03-02
Europarl Parallel Corpus A Parallel Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation The Europarl parallel corpus is extracted from the proceedings of the European Parliament. It includes versions in 11 European languages: Romanic (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Germanic (English, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish), Greek and Finnish. The goal of the extraction and processing was to generate sentence …
links for 2011-02-22
A List Apart: Articles: Designing Web Registration Processes for Kids Article on web registration processes for kids, with examples of how Barbie, Lego and others work. Main points: visual or audio instead of or in addition to text (reading is still developing), privacy concerns, ask only what's really necessary. (tags: children signup ux)
links for 2011-02-21
Color Oracle Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. Simulates common types of color blindness. (tags: color accessibility tools)
links for 2011-02-20
What Happens When You Really Meet People's Needs – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review story about customer service at Ritz Carlton (tags: service branding overdelivering) Business Blog / The Most Powerful Colors in the World by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers The web landscape is dominated by a large number of blue brands… but red occupies …
links for 2011-02-19
Lighthouse International – The Vision Simulator Using filters that simulate macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, hemianopia and retinitis pigmentosa, over YouTube videos of your choice, the simulator suggests some of the visual problems that a person with eye conditions experiences every day. (tags: simulation vision impairment video)