Late last year, an $890,000 grant was awarded to the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit behind Wikipedia). It was dedicated solely to a new Usability Initiative for improvements to MediaWiki. Continue reading »

On May 19, TypeRoom launched their triple-tiered premium product, TypeRoom Professional. A bit like in-browser website creation and editing app Zimplit, which we reviewed yesterday, TypeRoom allows for simple and Continue reading »

Churches aren't the first organizations that come to mind when you think about intelligent adoption and incorporation of social media. Nevertheless, many feel that if there was ever an organization Continue reading »

Anyone who has ever built a Web site for a client knows the painful process of gathering feedback on page layout and navigation. That's what makes sketching wireframes such a Continue reading »

Don't you hate it when you click a link only to discover it wasn't a web page, but a slow-loading PDF instead? Maybe it's time for publishers to find something Continue reading »

Effective user adoption is the absolute best predictor of enterprise software success. That was one of the key takeaways for me from the OpenAir User Conference this week. According to Continue reading »

Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications. In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total Continue reading »

The NY Times reports today about Coca-Cola's new virtual world website. Coke has set up an island called CC Metro in the virtual world There.com (a similar site to SecondLife, Continue reading »

Read/WriteTalk has an interesting podcast interview with Dan Saffer, Experience Design Director at Adaptive Path. In the podcast, R/WT host Sean Ammirati and Dan discussed the process of designing for Continue reading »

Over the past few years, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen's star has been waning. Ever since the web 2.0 trend started to become popular (around 2004 till now), Nielsen's 'keep Continue reading »