The importance of usability testing

Testing the design you made is extremely important, what other ways are there to know whether the product works for your users? Designers tend to design for themselves. Or for the client. Designers and the client are not the user! Important material »

Web 2.0 Winners and Losers

Wired posted a nice article about the winners and losers of Web 2.0. Famous quote about Myspace (in the losers section) : “the social networking site is about as pleasant to look at as last week’s cat vomit.” Link »

Schedule for this week and for next week

Wednesday 20-9 v205a: 10.30 Sjef and Raymond: How not to design a user interface Friday 22-9: 14.15 Friday session with: Eclipse, Organizing knowledge group, Web logs, .Net overview Next week: Wednesday 27-9 13.30 v306: 13.30 Martin Kuipers Data visualisation »