usability

What are people sharing from your site?

It’s become very easy to add sharing tools to just about any page on your website, and I’d recommend you do that. Our goal as web shepherds is to make it easy for our users to not only find information on our sites, but share that information with others. At my college, we’ve been using [...]

Social Networks, usability
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It's never too late to make changes

One of the great things about developing web applications is that the app is never finished and we can always work to streamline, optimize and improve our applications from direct and indirect feedback from users. Here’s an example. In 2003, we launched a web application on our campus that allows users to send us web [...]

usability, Web App

Usability Testing with Userfly

Design, pretty graphics and lots of the latest javascript tricks are fine, but maybe the most important thing about your website is this magical term, usability. Can the people coming to your site find what they need to find easily and quickly? It’s a tough question to answer, and often it can be hard to [...]

usability, Web App