#research (48 links)
- Fable makeitfable.com
Build exceptional products with Fable's digital accessibility testing and custom accessibility training, powered by people with disabilities.
- Ethical Maturity in User Research nngroup.com
- How To Write Stuff No One Else Can thewritetoroam.com
- What are developers thinking? – Nicole Sullivan stubbornella.org
- OpenSAFELY: The Origin Story | Oxford DataLab thedatalab.org
Over 42 days during the peak of the first wave of COVID-19 this team worked day and night to produce a fully open-source, privacy-preserving software platform, capable of running open and reproducible analytics across electronic health records, all held securely in situ. Since then the OpenSAFELY platform has expanded to a full scale analytic environment for secure data analysis, reproducible data curation, federated analysis, and code sharing, with every line of code for the platform, for data management, and for data analysis all shared openly by default, in re-usable forms, automatically, and without exception.
- How People Read Online: New and Old Findings nngroup.com
- Demos, Prototypes, and MVPs | Jacob Kaplan-Moss jacobian.org
- How Surprises Help Infants Learn — The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- How fast are we going now? | High Performance Web Sites stevesouders.com
<blockquote>Web developers don’t have much control over connection speeds and browser optimizations, but they can control the size of their pages. Unfortunately, page weight continues to increase.</blockquote>
Ho hum.
- MediaPost Publications Tablets Convert Consumers More Often Than Smartphones 04/25/2013 mediapost.com
<blockquote>Online shoppers are three times more likely to make a purchase on a tablet compared with a smartphone, according to [Adobe's] The State of Mobile Benchmark-Q2 3013.</blockquote>
- Net Promoter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
"A management tool that can be used to gauge the loyalty of a firm's customer relationships." Mmmm.
- Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
- Firefox Heatmap heatmap.mozillalabs.com
Rather useful insights into browser usage.
- What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar radar.oreilly.com
Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
Reviewing is the new advertising.
- Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist newscientist.com
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
- Tools of Engagement: The New Practice of User-Centered Design, by Robert Fabricant - Core77 core77.com
We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?
- metacool: 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world metacool.typepad.com
The signature behavior of people who routinely achieve innovative outcomes is that they constantly seek to experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world.
- WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results webaim.org
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey, which was conducted Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009. The response was amazing.
- The Computer for the 21st Century ubiq.com
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.
- AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech: Demo research.att.com
Great quality from this. Shame samples are for "private, non-commercial use" but not overly surprising.
- Communities Dominate Brands: When there is a mobile phone for half the planet: Understanding the biggest technology communities-dominate.blogs.com
As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.
- UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 uservoice.com
Customer feedback app, as used on blip.fm.
- Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages blog.hillsearch.org
The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more.
- advertising practitioner: microsoft, yahoo, ray harryhausen russelldavies.typepad.com
Technology companies typically spend about 20% of revenues on R&D, is there an agency anywhere that spends even 1%?
A new study released today by a consortium of big players in advertising found hard numbers to back up what you might have guessed. Specifically, that only 6% of people online are contributing 50% of the clicks to display advertisements.
- Ethnio Recruiting :: Made with 100% natural ethnioil. ethniodev.com
Ethnio is a friendly new way to recruit people from your website for research. Usability studies / Marketing studies / Surveys / Focus groups
Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.
- Mind hacks: Opinion leaders impotent in ideas economy mindhacks.com
A study that looked at how ideas spread through social networks [found] found that under most circumstances a critical mass of more easily influenced people, not 'opinion leaders', are key to making ideas popular.
- Virtual Hosting Blog » Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies virtualhosting.com
A few tips from eye-tracking studies
- The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
- ClickTale Blog » ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach blog.clicktale.com
Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.
Because secondary actions can have negative consequences, especially when used unintentionally, I’ve often argued they should be absent from forms.[...]That said there are situations where secondary actions make sense.
- Pew Internet & American Life Project pewinternet.org
- Unit Structures: Why They Are Leaving Myspace chimprawk.blogspot.com
SNS attrition is real, but it is hardly as alarming as the media makes it out to be? Why? Because social circles are fundamentally dynamic.
How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.
Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.
- UK's top web retailers failing the disabled | The Register theregister.co.uk
Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.
Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.
- Amberlight - User Centred Research and Design Services amber-light.co.uk
London based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Consultancy who provide user-centred research and design services to clients and partners in the UK and internationally.
- Corporate Watch : Home : HOME corporatewatch.org