In the poll I ran the week before last, Firefox 1.5 came out as the winner. Of the 33 users who read the poll on Firefox, 24 were using 1.5 and only 9 were using the older version. That's a 3:1 ratio ( Read more... )

Today I've used our new facility to print your own postage on our web site for the first time. It was quite nifty. All in all it took me 15 minutes, including dealing with the paper jam in the printer and sticking the print-out on the envelope with sticky tape.


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Check which version of Firefox you are using:
1. Go to "Help" in the browser toolbar
2. Click on "About Mozilla Firefox"
3. The number under the big, red "Firefox" is your version number
Poll FirefoxVersionThanks for your help!

Officially we're supporting Firefox 1.0. We've been doing that since last year. Our measurements don't support version information for Firefox yet, so I have no way of finding out which version is more common on our sites. Judging from the Wikipedia article about Firefox, it looks as if there are still many more downloads of earlier versions of ( Read more... )

I'm reading a report from user testing of an application and there's a link to a form that the author feels has very good contextual help on the form. It's a registration form for the BBC Collective, an interactive culture magazine ( Read more... )

Gary Bunker has written a simple but informative article over on UI Garden about the top six reasons why usability efforts don't pay. I'd recommend reading it particularly if you are relatively new to usability. If there are any particular points you want clarified and you don't want to comment on UI Garden, feel free to ask here ( Read more... )

I know that I've read research showing how people read lists. It basically said that up to a certain number of items, people read all items. After that they read the first few with declining interest and cast a glance at the last one and maybe the penultimate item in the list too ( Read more... )

I'm really only familiar with RSS feeds for blogs. Are there any examples of corporate sites that feature RSS feeds, e.g. for their product pages ( Read more... )

According to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for May 8, the average salary for a usability specialist in the US with 5 years experience is 80'000 USD. That sounds like a lot to me. Can somebody in the web field in the US give me a reality check on that?

This is a summary of Cliff Atkinson's and Richard E. Mayer's article with the title Five Ways to Reduce Power Point Overload. For the research and principles behind these points, see the original article.

1. Summarise the main point of each slide in its headline
2. Keep referring back to the Slide sorter and split slides that look full or take a long ( Read more... )