Do your users know their RSS from their elbow?

... time: 'The average user' didn't know a...a lawnmower. 'The average user' didn't know ... telephony. 'The average user' didn't know ... online. 'The average user' was a university ... Rourke Managing Director User Vision www.uservision....

Supermarkets make it hard for disabled users

... standards for disabled users, according to a report... people with a vision impairment, dyslexia or ...6 million registered blind users. Here is the ... million registered blind users. (Employers’ Forum on ... better websites for users anyway, irrespective of ...

IA: Bottom up meets top down in School of Everything

...its combination of user-generated and company...created by the users themselves (bottom up...I have seen, users become confused by...places? Suddenly the user subconsciously creates a...traditional categories with user driven bottom up...Rourke is the MD of  User Vision...

How to be PDQ on your PDA – Adaptex goes live

... that can help users of PDAs enter data ...you use most often User Vision performed usability ... preferred by PDA users. Adaptex was about ... real benefit, which users found useful, was ... phrase from that user and added it ...-text a Blackberry user any day. For ...

Election fiasco shows importance of usability tests

... websites  - the fact that users don't read instructions ... you would think that users would take a bit ... over the 'hanging chads', users' ability to fully and ... with a few end-users to refine the designs....Chris Rourke is the managing director of  User Vision ....

AJAX and accessibility - Jaws to the rescue?

...web and have enhanced the user experience significantly. If this ...to blind or partially sighted users then their entire experience of... that can deter many users from upgrading to the .... Chris Rourke is the managing director of User Vision ....

Should you Bump up your Desktop?

... messy real desk top - but do users want that or would they ... visual aspect, through letting the user assign different colours or imagery ... Chris Rourke is Managing Director of User Vision , a usability and accessibility ...

Who pays the price for poor usability? For air tickets online it could be you!

...airlines are unwilling to refund these user errors or learn lessons from ... seem to be taking to user mistakes is if they committed to...radical approach. Chris Rourke is the MD of User Vision .

Clustering your search results

...sites, is one of the most common topics of interest with User Vision and our clients. Created by Vivisimo, a search software company from... by indexing the site. The clusters help users see search results by topic so you can ...

Accessibility - are 'trustmarks' the answer?

... display a trustmark. If it fails in some way users can report the website via the trustmark. Trustmarks ... likes of Modem Media, Corporate Edge, Suburb, Steel, Isle Interactive and User Vision. It looks as if these agencies will help provide a shot in ...

Are Social Conferences the 2.0 of conferencing?

... the event . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Rourke is Managing Director of User Vision, a usability and accessibility ...

The human phone booths of Colombia

... wonderfully friendly people, and interesting history.    Chris Rourke is the MD of  User Vision .

Interview with Martin Stiksel of last.fm

...today's service? The vision for Last.fm is...going there! How many users and subscribers does last...How have you achieved user growth? We have ... million unique active users every month. And ... tags, where our users are classifying music ...

BT signs music deal with Sony BMG

...upcoming IPTV service, BT Vision. Although it is yet...videos through the BT Vision Download Store , launched in...The downloading service allows users to buy film, ...important deal for BT Vision and allows us to...be exclusive to BT Vision for a period of...

Google buys YouTube – conference call extracts

... relationships, but in fact the vision.” “We have come up with 20... value, we think that end users care a lot about it ...to sharpen our focus on this vision to create a new media ... to harness the power of user-generated content that didn’t ...