usability

Barter Economy

Posted on April 12, 2008. Filed under: being utility, crowdsourcing, gradual engagement, providing sharp tools, social network | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

I had a lot of hope to get straight a whole week in a line of posts. Unfortunately, this week some person at work enforced some unrealistic task to be done. Therefore, I got tired to death on a daily basis, therefore going to bed ‘early’ and ’sleeping long’ (midnight to 7am) instead of continuing [...]

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Winning people over by usability. But what about user profiles, data breaches and privacy concerns?

Posted on April 8, 2008. Filed under: A List Apart, Blogger.com, GMail, Google, Wordpress.com, Xing, data breaches, distrust, personal data footprint, privacy, privacy concerns, social network, suggested reads, usability | Tags: , , , , , , |

In my previous post, I introduced usability in general as a tool to lower the hurdles that might afflict random passers-by to become users of your service. Even more, usability provides you with chances to discern your service from alternative services, it’s relatively simple to implement and, once established, in your process of design and [...]

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Usability. To convince people of your service. Get out word of mouth.

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: G Reynolds, Presentation Zen, accessibility, chances to learn, gaining users, hassles in usage, human computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, navigability, rules of thumb, series of posts, suggested reads, usability, useful links | Tags: , , , , |

In my previous article, Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging., I looked into the question how to gather audience for a blog and what influences most whether people stay or leave. The conclusion I’ve taken so far is that whatever you offer, you need to win over people for whatever step you want them to [...]

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some prerequisites to know before immersing into social land/social nets

Posted on April 4, 2008. Filed under: PR, charging users, customer care service, developing a social network, different grades of social networks, exposed to the public, hassles in usage, social interaction, usability | Tags: , , , , |

Last week, I discerned three kinds (or levels) of social networks: (1) basic log-in plus chance to collect fellow users in a contact list — (2) the same plus that every single user can create and maintain their own groups, including group functionality such as forum and event calendar — (3) improves privacy by opening [...]

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