Userfocus Usability Newsletter, June 2011

Welcome to the June edition of the Userfocus usability newsletter.

• Message from the Editor
• Feature article: ISO 13407 is dead. Long live ISO 9241-210!
• What we're reading
• Upcoming training courses
• User experience quotation of the month

Message from the Editor

Look. I admit it. Standards can be fairly tedious. Whenever they're mentioned, boredom detectors sound. It's like being on a long car journey where someone suggests playing I-Spy for the 20th time.

So how can I encourage you to click through to this month's article?

How about if I told you that this isn't just a standard — it's a manifesto for user experience?

— David Travis

Feature article: ISO 13407 is dead. Long live ISO 9241-210!

An important usability standard has been updated for the user experience era. The standard describes 6 key principles of human centred design and serves as a manifesto for the field of user experience. Read the article in full: ISO 13407 is dead. Long live ISO 9241-210!.

What we're reading

Some interesting usability-related articles that got our attention over the last month:

• A wonderfully practical resource to apply behavioural economics to UX design. Unmissable.
• A/B test shows that the microcopy you write on a button has a big impact on conversions.
• Dead flies art. Gross and compelling.
• 5 techniques for interpreting survey responses.
• Improving Usability with Fitts' Law.

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Usability Training: Now Booking

Writing and editing for the web, June 10, London.

A hands-on course that shows delegates how to write and edit content to engage readers from the very first word. Unlike other web writing courses, this workshop is packed with practical activites that help you put what you learn to immediate use. More information about this training course: Writing and editing for the web.

SPSS Essentials, June 29, London.

How to use SPSS to input and analyse data and how to interpret and present the results. More information about this training course: SPSS Essentials.

Web Usability: Designing the user experience, July 25-26, London.

A fast-paced, 2-day immersion seminar that shows you to use usability techniques to boost sales and conversion rates, increase usage and improve customer satisfaction. More information about this training course: Web Usability: Designing the user experience.

User Experience quotation of the month

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs.

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