Little black book

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I realized a few moments ago that I have been remiss in updating my little black book blogroll with some of the really good blogs that I read. I thought I’d take a moment to shout out to them and thank them for some really great content that has helped […]

Death by a thousand cuts: Usability problems add up

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In Those “Minor” Usability Annoyances, Daniel Read at developer.* writes in on a topic that resonates with me. Daniel describes working on a critical application with multi-year, continuous development and a couple hundred internal users. I’m currently helping a client incorporate automated unit testing for a similar enterprise application, and […]

Sorry about the mess

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For folks who were paying attention recently, I added some technorati tagging capabilities to the site, and started adding tags to the posts. Guess I got a little overzealous (or the plugin was a little flaky), and I brought the site down. We appear to be back up now, and […]

Top five usability blunders (and fixes)

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Five easy steps to alienating your users with bad usability Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. Build an inconsistent UI layout or interaction design that varies throughout the application, creating a sense of dissonance for the users. Interrupt the […]

The polls are open!

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We’ve added polls to the site – in the sidebar. Please vote when you see them – they will help us drive content, learn, etc.

Recent comments in the sidebar at Tyner Blain

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The 5 most recent comments now show at the bottom top of the sidebar on our blog. Check these out – they make it easy to stay on top of the current discussions. Note: linkbacks also show up as comments and therefore on the list

Bookmarking at del.icio.us now available on Tyner Blain

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We can now add del.icio.us bookmarks for any post at Tyner Blain! Click the link at the bottom of the post (just left of the permalink). For anyone who hasn’t used it, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows people to search the web for contextual information (like a […]

Foundation Series: Structured Requirements

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Karl Wiegers wrote the book on structured requirements – Software Requirements, 2nd Edition, Karl E. Wiegers. If you are involved in managing requirements, you should own this book. Even if you don’t follow his approach to managing requirements, or don’t like how he deals with use cases, you should still […]