Fave Usability blogs
I want to share some Usability blogs that I frequent:
1. Experience Lab – I got this from Serco Usability. It talks about anything and everything pertaining to experience design.
2. Handheld Usability – is the legendary Scott Weiss’ blog that talks about usability and user experience design in the mobile space. I just love this guy – very witty and insightful. I’m a BIG fan and was honored to have met him this year. I wish he can update more frequently, though.
3. Usability Post – usability blog of Pixelshell’s Dmitry Fadeyev. He’s got a lot to say about tips on good Web and software design.
4. User Centered – talks about anything and everything usability – from design, to testing to product reviews – from iPhones to browsers. Entries are user-generated so I get to read a lot of usability practitioners’ take on the usability of everyday things.
I wish there are more blogs on usability and user experience design. I found several of them but there are only a few writers who make the effort to update regularly.
Keep us posted if you find good usability blogs so we can share them here.
Cooking up wireframes with Balsamiq
Before designing a website interface, usability engineers represent the base layout via a wireframe. I’ve tried various tools ranging from Visio to OpenOffice.org’s Draw, and have found Axure to be the most feature-rich item for our needs. Recently though I stumbled upon Balsamiq, an Adobe Air-based wireframing application that is a breeze to use.
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