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NMK Podcast - Episode 11 - Sarah Beeny

Sarah Beeny is probably best known as the face of the Channel 4 TV show Property Ladder, but she has also been heavily involved in successful online projects, such as MySingleFriend.com. She recently teamed up with digital agency Codegent to form Tepilo, a website which aims to educate and enable people how to sell their own homes.

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Accessibility for Better Business

Businesses of all sizes are missing out on opportunities to create new leads and make more sales because they aren’t following basic web accessibility practices. That’s according to a new white paper from CMS developer Squiz. Ian Delaney reports.

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Usability: Whose Problem is it Anyway?

Trocadero's CC Club was host to a discussion about usability in the current new media landscape last Monday. Usability: whose problem is it anyway? attracted a set of lively industry practitioners seeking enlightenment on their path to creating usable and accessible websites. Cynthia O'Murchu reports.

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Expert usability review vs. usability

Lisa Halabi outlines the difference between the two usability evaluation methods: The expert usability review and usability testing.

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Improve e-commerce with filter & sort

Filtering and sorting are essential for helping users find the products they're looking for. How can you make best use of this essential functionality, asks Jonathan Webb

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Forget guidelines talk to users

Accessible and usable websites are a high priority within the public sector, yet within the private sector many feel overwhelmed by all the guidelines. Organisations should stop worrying about official recommendations and simply start talking to disabled users, argues Stefan Haselwimmer

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Usability Day 2006 events

14 November marks this year's global Usability Day. It is for everyone who has ever asked "Why doesn't this work right? What am I supposed to do with this now?" Here we list just a few of the events happening in the UK to celebrate the day.

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Mobile & handheld usability testing

Mobile and handheld usability testing is crucial to your business, Trenton Moss explains. Find out why and what you need to do for this unique medium...

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Usability testing with children

Usability testing with children can prevent some unique challenges - find out what exactly these are and what you need to do.

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Web usability: The basics

Don't take usability for granted: learn the all-important web usability basics with these tips and guidelines...

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SEO & its usability benefits

Web developers are often of the impression that there has to be a trade-off between optimising for people and optimising for search engines. This article argues that this isn't necessarily the case.

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Accessible benefit: usability

Web accessibility has a huge number of benefits, one the main ones being increased usability. This article outlines some of the ways accessibility and usability overlap and how enhancing a website's accessibility can automatically improve its usability too.

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Usability: Subliminal U-Turns

A new twist in the usability debate poses yet more dillemmas for web designers, online advertisers, retailers and service providers. Michael Nutley extracts the positives from this scenario...

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Practical Usability: Beyond User Testing

Andrew Swartz of Serco Usability Services discusses ways in which you can ask your users to help improve your products, while still respecting the judgement of your design team.

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