Archives for the month "November 2006"

Are you reaching your markets?

November 20, 2006 · Posted in Information Design and Usability  

Jakob Neilsen’s Alertbox column for the day delivered some brow-raising statistics: 40% of the population las lower literacy skills, which creates a huge barrier for Web usability. Lower literacy is second largest accessibility problem. This digital divide isn’t created consciously or willfully – it’s not like merchants or government are trying to find ways to [...]

World Usability Day: making the world a little better

November 13, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized  

If you’ve ever wondered whether you were the only person in the world who couldn’t figure out how to use a product, open a package, follow instructions, World Usability Day is a little ray of hope in an otherwise generally unusable world. I’m one of those people; I assume that everyone else must have figured [...]

Content Management Crash Course

November 2, 2006 · Posted in content management  

If you need a super dose of content management in a short period of time, the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies is for you.  The conference takes place Nov 28-30th in Boston, MA. The Gilbane conference has a good balance between practice and technologies, and theory and case studies. The technology exhibition is quite large [...]