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Usability test datalogger

This Excel spreadsheet allows you to measure task completion rates, time-on-task, analyse questionnaire data, and summarise participant comments. Latest version just released!

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Usability RSS feeds

Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the variety of web sites, blogs and articles devoted to usability? If so, help is at hand. We've put together a web page that aggregates the best of these web sites and made the page available through Netvibes.

Usability Test Plan Toolkit

This eBook contains all you need to make sure that you're fully prepared for your next usability test. The document includes easy to customise usability test forms, such as screeners, a discussion guide, questionnaires and data logging sheets.

World Usability Day Quotation posters

“A mobile phone needs a manual in the way a teacup doesn't.” Brighten up your office and help spread the word with one of our World Usability Day quotation posters. Or print a couple on postcard-sized photo paper and send them to manufacturers of hard-to-use products with your own witty aphorism on the back.

Bluffers' guide to ISO 9241

This white paper describes each of the 17 parts of ISO 9241 in detail. Now available for viewing on-line and off-line (in pdf format).

Checkpoints for reviewing usability test reports

Usability practitioners are called on, not only to conduct many research studies during their careers, but also to read, review, and advise on usability studies that have been conducted and reported by others. The ability to critically review the research of others, and to help stakeholders weigh up the merits or shortcomings of research data and conclusions, is an extremely valuable skill. These checkpoints will help you ensure your review covers the key issues.

Web accessibility tools

A concise list of the most useful accessibility tools on the Web. These tools and websites are indispensable when carrying out accessibility reviews.

Are you customer centred?

This Excel spreadsheet provides a test to help you measure the "customer-centredness" of your organisation.

Usability case studies

These case studies from our consulting practice will show you how usability is applied in the real world.

Usability crosswords

These crosswords feature words and concepts in usability. Use them in your training courses or to raise awareness of usability in your team.

Omnigraffle stencils

These stencils will help you communicate user-centered design activities and proposals to clients and development teams.

E-Commerce Usability

This e-commerce usability book introduced the notion of "customer centred design".

Effective Color Displays

This book is for people who want to use color effectively in user interface design.

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