• Usability: ‘Lovely software. But I can’t work it’ | Financial Times
  In a recent survey by Global Graphics, an electronic document software company, 77 per cent of office workers estimate they lose up to one hour a week because business software is difficult to use.
  [...] “It’s as if designers and developers of software have become better at making software look simple on the surface, but as the user actually starts using it, they soon get helplessly lost. Navigation is often multi-layered and vital buttons are hidden away,” he says.
• Top 6 User Testing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | FutureNow’s GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog
  Now, during that same video post, Patrick offhandedly mentioned that there were a few golden rules and guidelines to tasking users so that their test results would be optimally useful and easy to interpret, but that he’d have to cover these in a follow-up post. [...] So here they are, the Top 6 User Testing Tips as disclosed to me by Edit Weapon:
• 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
  In short, design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you may already be using them now without knowing it.
• Presentations from the reboot11 conference @ slideshare

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