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Usability Word of the Day

The Usability Word of the Day is Exploratory Research. Exploratory Research in context to Usability means:

Searching for potential issues rather than testing for problems already assumed to exist. Exploratory research is an importa ... Read More

Usability News

UMKC's tangled Web site (University News)
The UMKC Web site presents a variety of design styles varying from school to school and department to department. Information Services (IS) Chief Information Officer Dr. Mary Lou Hines-Fritts invited U-News to sit in on a board meeting as a way to understand the difficulties her department faces in creating a uniform look and ease of usability. Read More

Kit reviews: HTC Shift, BlackBerry Bold and more (Law Society Gazette)
How work friendly are the latest innovations in the micro-PC world? The Gazette puts them to the test and weighs up their pros and cons. The benchmark against which all small devices must be judged is usability. Anything else is gadget fetishism or mere room decoration. Read More

Anoto Digital Pen Technology to Be Presented With New HIM Tools at AHIMA Educational Session (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Anoto, the inventor of Digital Pen and Paper technology, announces today that there will be a session at the prestigious 80th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit that includes presentation of the role of DP&P within Health Information Management systems in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as its potential contribution to enhancing usability, efficiency, and compliance in the design of Electronic ... Read More

Trintech Announces New Version of ReconNET Reconciliation and Exception Management Solution (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Trintech Group Plc , a leading provider of integrated financial governance, transaction risk management, and compliance solutions, today announced the availability of ReconNET 7.5. The newest version of Trintech's reconciliation and account balancing application includes improved security, usability enhancements, and supports a new archival module which will help customers further streamline ... Read More

Mad*Pow and Bentley team up (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Mad*Pow recently announced its partnership with the Bentley College Design and Usability Center (DUC). The partnership will allow Mad*Pow to broaden its user experience offering and to offer clients access to leading independent... Read More

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