Top 10 user experience gurus

This top 10 is based on the number of participants mentioning their favourite gurus names, or work, in the recent Usability and User Experience Report 2007 published by e-consultancy this week. So it acts more as an indicator of the most...

Serendipity

I recently visited a 'Handel & the Castrati ' exhibition at the Handel House museum, 25 Brook Street,London. (He lived there from 1723 until his death in 1759 and it was here that he composed the Messiah.) I got to the top floor and, knock me over with a...

Facebook captcha

I have a work colleague and friend who sometimes acts as a consultant with Interesource, she is blind, and this week I received a Facebook friend request from her. I was overjoyed and thought 'great she's got in here', knowing how inaccessible Facebook is. The...

User Experience 2.0

How do you user test contextual 'intellegent' navigation and information display for Web 2.0 sites? We recently user tested some IA and social concepts for a well know women's online magazine website. Already a very successful site,...

Mojiti

I'm sure it's been around for yonks, but a colleague recently drew my attention to the Mojiti application. Mojiti's allows you to personalise online video with your own words, a bit like a Flickr for video. This could prove a great way of making video clips more accessible...

Beautiful people, ugly site

Rich Internet Applications vs HTML

Happy New Accessible Year

2007 web predictions

How many usability consultants does it take to change a lightbulb?

Social networking - a bit of Tamagotchi and Koyaanisqatsi

Tony's site in top 3 for accessibility

A new report commissioned by the United Nations as part of its International Day of Disabled Persons discovered that most leading websites fail to be accessible. The survey carried out by Nomensa accessibility consultants finds that 97% of websites do not even provide a...

So much information, so little time

Toilet training

Joe needs patronising