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Gradual Engagement: Putting your users first
Gradually engaging your audience Ever since I first heard Luke Wroblewski talking about the concept of Gradual Engagement, I had an immediate “Oh, why didn’t I think of that?” moment….
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Gradual Engagement: Putting your users first
Gradually engaging your audience Ever since I first heard Luke Wroblewski talking about the concept of Gradual Engagement, I had an immediate “Oh, why didn’t I think of that?” moment….
How to plan a journey on the ScotRail website, using Firebug.
I don’t usually post this sort of thing, but today I found a blocking bug that required some technically understanding of why it was occurring to overcome. Thankfully this wasn’t…
2011 a year gone — 2012 a year of great promise.
Summary 2011 was a very busy year for me! Being a father with my first kid now nearly three, I’ve seen almost all of my free time disappear. You’ll probably…
North West Tester Gathering: Musings from further north.
A gathering of testers! After my first day at the EuroSTAR 2011 conference, I had the pleasure of attending another great event – the North West Tester Gathering. This was…
Essential mind mapping: Rapid test design.
Overcoming the limitations of traditional test design Test design is often a very time consuming process when it need not be. People are often weighed further down by tools such…
Learnability, affordance, and rejected systems.
Learnability Lots of people talk about the need for simplicity in designs, and some even provide various examples of what makes for a good minimalist design and what doesn’t. I…
Test ideas for a login process
What follows is my thoughts on testing a login process. This originally started out as a comment on a post Santhosh Tuppad made around his ideas for testing a login…
Accessibility: The perils of ignorance.
The article that sparked an idea for this post was around the usage of Captchas to prevent spam bots from accessing sites by Santhosh Tuppad (he’s a great blogger; go…
Tales from the trenches: Lean requirements gathering.
Summary In the following post I go over a lean form of requirements gathering and planning that I did with my new team at Maidsafe. I provide examples, and tips…