Just days after reports that Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, comes a claim from the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft is planning to buy the company for $7 billion, in a deal worth closer to $8 billion after Skype’s debts are considered. This mirrors an earlier [...]
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VISIT LINK: Myth #29: People are rational People don’t make purely rational decisions based on careful analysis of cost and expected utility, despite what classical economics taught us. (tags: ux psychology usability design webdesign myth myths rational irrational …)
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10 User Interface Design Fundamentals It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, [...]
Low cost usability testing We know usability testing is a pain. It’s expensive and time-consuming. As a result, it doesn’t happen enough. That’s why we built UserTesting.com—we wanted to bridge the gap between no user testing and expensive user testing. UserTesting.com lets you "look over the shoulder" of people in your target audience while they [...]
A Journey Through Five Years of WordPress Interface With the recently launched WordPress 2.7, bloggers now marvel at how clean, beautiful and usable is the new interface. But do you remember what it used to be a couple of months ago? For those who started using WordPress years ago, can you remember what your admin [...]