From the monthly archives:

November 2009

An Analysis of Amazon against Neilson’s Usability Principles

November 4, 2009

Using Nielson’s Usability Principles devise an evaluation plan to assess the ‘quality’ of the site. Your answer should clearly identify where improvements can be made.
Neilson’s Usability Principles provide a set of guidelines or principles that should be kept in mind when developing user interfaces. The following analysis will look at each of the [...]

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Usability and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Analysis of Amazon

November 4, 2009

One of my Advanced Software Engineering sub-modules at university is HCI and we’ve been given a practice assignment to assess the HCI aspects and usability of a publicly available website.
I shall be taking a look at Amazon – specifically the homepage, a product page and a purchasing page.
The questions are as follows and shall be [...]

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Using TheSchwartz (Job Queue) with Catalyst

November 2, 2009

TheSchwartz is a job queue module written by the guy(s) behind LiveJournal. It simply allows you to add jobs to a queue, in this case a database, and then have scripts watching the queue (database) and running work tasks when jobs arrive that they know how to deal with.
I wrote down how I used [...]

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