Hello and welcome to Useful Usability!
This blog about useful usability will be my attempt to provide you with helpful tips, insights and tools you can use when practicing usability. I hope to keep things simple, light and most importantly USEFUL, to provide you with an easy and quick way to gain usability knowledge, or at least flame me if you disagree with something I’ve said!
So who am I and why should you bother reading my posts? Well, I’m a Certified Usability Analyst and have been practicing the dark art / semi-science of usability and user-centered design for over 10 years. I’ve conducted well over 500 usability testing sessions, research studies, redesign projects and other assorted usability-type projects, and I have broken up more fights over what’s the right way to present a burning, spinning logo on the home page than I can remember.
I’ve worked at or for big and small companies; Fortune 100 companies, Fortune 500 companies, and companies who were lucky to be able to afford a copy of Fortune magazine. All of them needed usability help to some degree, but many of them didn’t realize it! So, in the coming days, weeks months and perhaps years I’ll be providing my input, insight and intellectual property to you, hoping that you find value in my attempts to inform and inspire you.
Thank you for reading and please do comment back, a one-sided conversation is after all rather dull!
