Usability Bulletin. Issue No. 18

UPA MONTHLY - May 2008
| Author’s training seminar by Sergey Spivak “Effective website”, July 3-4 in Moscow
| Jared Spool: Website Design \ Benchmarking Options \ Non-Intuitive Approach
| Internet for the blind?
| Usability Testing: What Have We Missed?



UPA MONTHLY - May 2008
Monthly Newsletter of the Association of Usability Professionals:

• What drives Facebook
• Usability for eco products
• The Cozy Suite - what should be a comfortable seat for an airplane?
• UPA 2008 Conference (Baltimore, United States)
• Usability of Society and State at UPA Conference
• UPA Europe 2008 (Turin, Italy)
• User Friendly 2008 (Shenzhen, China)
• World Usability Day 2008 - Transportation

Author’s training seminar by Sergey Spivak “Effective website”, July 3-4 in Moscow
Sergey Spivak, one of the best experts in the field of media planning on the Internet, director of the Internet agency PRIOR.ru, holds an author workshop in Moscow on July 3-4 training. One of the topics of the seminar: usability of a corporate site.

Jared Spool: Website Design \ Comparative Analysis of Options \ Non-Intuitive Approach
Jared M. Spool, a famous theoretician and usability practitioner, in a recent article describes a simplified testing process. Resources were significantly less involved, and the quality of the project, says Spool, was completely unaffected.

Internet for the blind?
On May 3, 2008, the new UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force .. This means that in Runet accessibility standards that exist in developed countries should appear. Domestic software developers for Western markets have already faced accessibility: the products they create must be accessible to people with disabilities. What is accessibility, why should it be achieved and how to do it?

Usability Testing: What Have We Missed?
Nielsen's postulate of the "magic number five" is called into question. Jitt Lindgaard (Carleton University, Canada) and Jarini Chattratichart (Kingston University, England) published a paper that explains why the five respondents do not always find the “laid down” 85% of errors - and, most importantly, how to fix things.