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 […]
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Sorry about the mess
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 […]
Design / Lists / Software development / Usability / UX
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Top five usability blunders (and fixes)
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 […]
Process Improvement / Requirements / ROI / Software development
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The Best Way to Improve ROI is With Good Requirements
Statistics that support the critical need for requirements management improvements…
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The polls are open!
We’ve added polls to the site – in the sidebar. Please vote when you see them – they will help us drive content, learn, etc.
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Recent comments in the sidebar at Tyner Blain
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
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Bookmarking at del.icio.us now available on Tyner Blain
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 / Process Improvement / Requirements / Software development
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Foundation Series: Structured Requirements
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 […]
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Technorati rank – two steps forward, three steps back
Well, we had climbed from our lowly beginnings of 983,109 to a high point of 415,722 at the old domain yesterday. We start over today at 1,054,428. Other stats to live up to: total page views at the old site – 3727 in 41 days = 91 views per day […]