July 26, 2006
At this point almost everyone has come across the shallow promise of CMSs — use them and your content problems will be solved. Most of our clients now realise that, though CMSs play an essential role, it’s training and motivating staff to create good content that matters most of all. Well, in the world of web analytics, it’s a similar story.
July 25, 2006
Of the 40 million or so products that Google has recently spat out, Google Video is one you might have come across without actually intending to check it out. And one of the ways Google is promoting their software (or perhaps that’s a cynical read of it) is by inviting you to peer in on their internal talks. In other words, they’re making public (at least some of) the talks that their employees get to go to. Last month, Google’s user experience manager gave a talk on the “Science and Art of User Experience”. It’s nearly a half-hour long, so I’ll save you some time by summarising the good stuff from the talk here.
July 20, 2006
I’m sure at this point everyone is familiar with Google’s email app Gmail, and the way it’s revolutised online email.
Google are also looking to the corporate market for email users, and have been asking for beta testers for a while now.
Well after a few months of waiting we’ve finally got an invite for iqcontent.com to allow everyone here to have a company Gmail account, which for some of us on the road is going to be very useful.
This means effectively having myemail@iqcontent.com email addresses using hosted email from Google.
July 19, 2006
Our recent FREE report, “Online Car Insurance Benchmarking: Measuring the user experience of 20 Irish, UK and US car insurance websites” is hitting the headlines
July 12, 2006
Last month I posted a blog about Google search results. Essentially I made the point that recent user tests we conducted highlighted the reality that only the top search results matter in Google. Well, a recent eye-tracking study drives this point home.
July 12, 2006
Some websites are still designed only for Internet Explorer. When viewing them in other browsers like Firefox or Safari (on an Apple Mac), their design falls over. At best these sites can look a bit odd, at worst; they can’ be used at all.
July 3, 2006
Anyone who’s used an RSS reader will no doubt say they are one of the best things since sliced bread! We’ve even got one for this blog
The ability to subscribe to a site and get it to tell me when it’s changed, instead of remembering to visit that site again, is pretty cool, to say the least.
One thing that really annoys me about RSS feeds is when people either don’t update their RSS feed at all, or change the URL of the RSS feed without telling their audiences.