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usability

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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State Of The Aggregators

July 17, 2008

I’m off to Europe for a month next week, and consequently I’ve been looking for travel insurance and it’s really the first time I’ve had to look for insurance – Aside from student insurance for uni!I figured it would be pretty pointless searching for ‘cheap travel insurance’ or something similar as all I’d get would [...]

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How to write more readable blog posts

August 15, 2007

This is going to be a little look into blog post usability. Being able to write well for the web or for your blog will be an important factor in how successful your blog is.
If people are unable to easily digest your content, they’re not going to share it or link to it. [...]

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Improving the conversion rate of your checkout process

July 17, 2007

E-Consultancy have released a new report about the online checkout:
“Almost a year ago now we started on an ambitious project to try and define how the perfect online checkout would work…
A lot of interviews, research, roundtables and surveys later we’ve finally published Online Retail 2007: Checkout Special“
Anyway, it’s rather long, so here is a [...]

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What is search conversion / captology / usability optimisation?

June 8, 2007

Search Conversion or Captology or Usability Optimisation are phrases/terms for pretty much the same thing as far as I can tell. There is nothing on dictionary.com for any of those terms so do they even exist or have I just made them up?

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