I came accross this article in zdnet regarding “Ten Linux apps that get top marks from schools”
My Parents run a private school. I wanted to see if OSS has a software for managing school. I found this :
4. Open Admin for Schools
Open Admin for Schools is an outstanding open-source application that allows schools to do [...]
Archives for Usability
UI Developed by Developers
The Power of Personas
Brad Colbow created an interesting comic strip for ThinkVitamin explaining the use of personas and how it affects the design decision and data gathering techniques.
Some other interesting persona links
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Personas
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/building-a-data
http://www.productpersonas.com/weblog/persona_examples/
CUE Training
As a part of awareness building across the company we arranged for a 3 day seminar and workshop session.First two session were mainly lecture session where we talked about design, user experience, usability, best practices, front-end engineering and accessibility. Final session was on aesthetics and design principles.
We conducted an workshop at the last session, and [...]
Pagination or Lazy Loading or Interactive Lazy loading
I have been thinking this for quite some time.
We had (have) pagination for showing large data set …
Then we have lazy Loading which we can successfully use in certain situation like Google Reader.
I haven’t seen interactive Lazy Loading anywhere yet but am sure will be available some where implemented.
What I mean by Interactive Lazy Loading [...]
Long Form Usability
I usually come across forms in banking application specially which has very long forms.When I say long form, I am talking about forms containing more than 50 fields. During user studies I noticed people get actually irritated filling such long forms. To give an extreme example one Indian Bank has 200 filed long form to [...]
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