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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 [...]
RideBoard – making the world a little greener
A few years back, my team was approached by a group from our student government who had a problem. Before a renovation in our campus center, there was one of the classic staples of colleges back in the day – the ride board. If you had an extra seat or needed a ride somewhere, you [...]
Who is Mechanical Turk?
I’ve been reading a lot lately about Amazon Mechanical Turk. What’s that you ask? Good question. Mturk, for short, is Amazon’s human-powered marketplace. Just like you can provision servers on demand, with Mturk you provision small work units that you pay people to complete. These are often small tasks, such as a web search or [...]
