Resu.me - a Stanford based technology start-up has managed to generate a buzz around its name and bagged whopping 1,00,000 users within 6 months! Ok but can they sustain the aftereffect of this buzz was the key concern and they failed! Why? Let’s see
If you are reading this post and not aware of what resu.me is, what [...]
Identify your website offerings and USP
Guide user to offerings and USP using some cool graphics or colors. Tell them what your website stands for
Setup clear cut navigation and guide user to starting point
Display mission critical information upfront and keep user informed about where they are and where could they go
After UCA (User Centered Analysis) in March’10, I have finally registered for the next module which contributes to CUA (Certified Usability Analyst ) track in July’2010. Attending UCA module @ HFI Mumbai was a great and eye opening experience in itself. In 3 days, we learnt a lot about users, their mental model, usability testing, analysis and [...]
Are you messing up usability analysis with above two? Are you, un-knowingly, getting involved in finding faults in code or screen under the name if usability analysis?
I came across one such fine example recently when I was working on an assignment. I asked myself What is the we are doing? Trying to say that these coder [...]
It was a Saturday noon. I was talking to my mentor cum friend. He works with renowned educational institute and heads a department there. His institute was about to release news paper advertisement to increase awareness about their graduate programmes. He was concerned about the design of their institute’s website and was wondering if I can run a [...]
Recently I attended HFI (Human Factors International) User Centric Analysis and Conceptual Design sessions. One prominent point discussed in this 3 days session was “Users”. How much efforts do you take to understand your users? How do you analyse user’s mental model and how do you reflect this analyzed model into screen of your software or [...]
As Eric Schaffer, CEO and Founder of HFI says, “Usability must be institutionalized as a sustained, routine, and necessary part of the business process. Executives, managers, and practitioners need a mature usability engineering capability with infrastructure, standards, training, and proper staffing”. Usabiliy come with matuarity. It should flow from top to bottom and horizontally throughout the organization. Having worked in SAP netweaver for 3 years and also trying my hands on web development, I feel it’s time to move one step ahead.
