usability News

In order to reach more visitors and inform them about the online services available, leading housing association Sanctuary Group has added BrowseAloud, a text-to-speech solution from Texthelp Systems Ltd.

On Sept. 20, 2010, an international group of experts will come together at a unique, 1-day User Experience Masterclass to present real world examples demonstrating innovative technologies and methods, global collaboration, and lessons learned.

The Pensions Ombudsman in Ireland is keen to ensure his website is accessible to all website visitors, which is why he has invested in an innovative text-to-speech solution called BrowseAloud.

Are you using the right content strategy for your website? Balance Content & Usability Director, Carrie Hane Dennison will help to answer that question as part of a panel discussion on June 24 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s popular website (www.caerphilly.gov.uk) now offers visitors an innovative new feature that enables web pages to be read aloud.

Denbighshire Council have recently speech enabled their website with a revolutionary product called BrowseAloud, which will allow people to hear online content being read aloud.

Funnelback, the global search engine technology and services company, today announced the availability of a new, independent review of Funnelback Search from leading analysts Ovum / The Butler Group.

Justinmind and Barcelona Activa will organise seminars on prototyping for IT professionals in Barcelona.

Luristic Corporation, a software company specialized in Rich User Experiences (RUE) announced today the availability of LureList – a web-based component that manages list of items, which is very common occurrence.

Recent earthquake tragedies in both Haiti and Chile and the generous outpouring of support have put a spotlight on the challenges of collecting charitable donations effectively.

Luristic Corporation, a software company specialized in Rich User Experiences (RUE) announced today the availability of LureMap – an ideal website map that never leaves you wonder how you got there or how to go somewhere.

Acquisition Expands OTOinsights Service Offerings in Customer Experience Research

User Experience Alliance (UXalliance) partners, Optimal Usability, have invited an international panel of speakers for a one-day User eXperience Masterclass.

Funnelback and Squiz UK today announced the successful delivery of website search powered by Funnelback for the UK Electoral Commission, providing fast and relevant search results with contextual navigation for improved usability.

Usability experts and authors Bill Albert, Tom Tullis and Donna Tedesco have launched the first guide for conducting large-scale user experience research using the Internet.

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung fördert Projekt "Fun of Use with Natural Interactions"

SSB BART Group and Bentley University have been added as the newest User Experience Alliance (www.UXalliance.com) members, enhancing the international user research network to a total of 22 companies across the globe.

The Website Success System teaches businesses how to make their websites more effective and customer-focused. It is presented by Colette Mason, an award-winning usability professional, who has been responsible for multi-million dollar web projects.

Bob Schumacher will be at the Borders (Oak Brook, IL) November 24th signing copies of the recently published, Handbook of Global User Research (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers).

User Vision research reveals issues with green energy tariff search

53 user experience professionals. 21 countries represented. 250+ global research projects conducted. 1 book that combines expert knowledge and experience for conducting international user research projects.

World Usability Day events to focus on "designing for a sustainable world"

Manchester digital usability agency, PRWD, has been appointed by Conservative thinker Phillip Blond to develop a website for his new think tank, ResPublica.

Usability consultants test availability of green options

FeedbackMetrics announced today the launch of WeBenchmark.com, a new on-demand survey and benchmark service committed to businesses’ website effectiveness.

Forschungsprojekt FUN zeigt: Bessere User Experience erhöht die Leistung der Anwender

Celebrating 10 years in the user research field, User Centric's research and design spans multiple industries and hundreds of clients across the globe.

The Usability Marathon, a series of webinars in usability and user experience (UX), opens on Monday, October 12, 2009 and goes through Wednesday, October 21, 2009. It is organized for the second time by UIDesign Group (Moscow, Russia).

Interface Guru, a Tucson-based consulting company, was named Minority Technology Firm of the Year by Southern Arizona’s Minority and Small Business Alliance. Cia Romano, CEO and founder of Interface Guru, accepted the award on September 17, 2009.

L.Carter Plumbing and Heating are Plumbers and Heating Engineers based in Lancaster in the UK. The company provide heating and plumbing services throughout the North West of England and during that time they have gone from strength to strength.

Balance Interactive has contracted with Driveway2Driveway to improve the company’s information flow to potential customers.

User Vision has been working with the Electoral Commission to help make voting an easier experience across the UK.

A UK digital usability company discussed their experience with the new Adobe AIR platform for delivering desktop-based applications at a recent event in Manchester.

Akendi, an informed design, user experience design, usability research and strategy firm, has opened its doors in Toronto, Ottawa. Akendi is founded by Ian Chalmers of one of Toronto’s design agencies, and Tedde van Gelderen usability designer.

The new search engine from Microsoft looks nice. At least for the front page, which displays a different, nice picture every day.

User Vision director appointed to board of ScotlandIS

Free PDF/XPS and Microsoft Office reader now available for download

Leading thinkers in search and digital marketing meet in Scotland to explore current and future trends in sector.

Jean Schiller, Certified Professional Ergonomist, provides insight to the American Chiropractic Association about musculoskeletal disorders associated with the overuse of technologies such as PDAs and gaming systems.

Interakting launches new website for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

UIDesign Group, UXalliance partner and a Russian leader in user experience field, celebrated its birthday. An in-house event was organized for the partners and staff, to thank for mutual cooperation.

After 6 fantastic years, CADinteractive is changing to offer more dedicated research and design services.

After nine months of unsuccessful redesign work, JCrew has merited Fashionism's Worst Website Redesign Award, for its inability to create a usable Web portal.

DesignerVista is a powerful, easy to use GUI prototype design software. You can quickly create GUI Prototype Designs of Windows XP/Vista applications, Websites and Web Applications. No Coding or GUI Design experience is required. Easy to use.

HumanCentric, an integrated product design and development company, has joined the International Usability Partners (IUP) as the U.S. usability research and design partner.

User Centric user experience consultant highlights how to make recipes more user friendly with a few minor changes to the layout.

Digital agency Redweb has appointed Angela Barnard as Content Editor with responsibility for managing the creation, receipt and entry of content and media across the agency. She joins from Web Sight.

Digital agency Redweb today received top honours at the 2008 Media Momentum Awards in London which recognises the fastest growing digital media companies in the UK, with Premium sponsors 3i, Olswang and Sky Digital Media.

Pure Visibility, Inc., an Internet marketing firm in Ann Arbor, has expanded its team with three new hires, all user experience design and analytics consultants.

Usability specialists chosen for BBC creative workshops.