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[Objects, Systems and Everywhere In-Between] Some Great Software Quotes: (really cool!) XmlValidatingReader API Usability Enhancements New static Create() methods... ASP.NET development is familar with 'Code-Behind'. 'Code-Beside' is similar: It refers to partial... tool that will allow you instrument an executable and run it to profile metrics like longest running

[Uzilla.net] Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports: HTML Template: A table specifying the characteristics and capabilities of the participants tested should include a row in the table for each participant, and a column for each characteristic. Characteristics should be chosen to be relevant to the product’s usability; they should allow a customer to determine how similar the participants were to the customers’ user population; and they must be complete enough so that an essentially similar group of participants can be recruited. The table below is an example; the characteristics that are shown are typical but may not necessarily cover every type of testing situation. Gender Age Education Occupation / role Professional Experience Computer Experience Product Experience P1 P2 Pn For ‘Gender’, indicate male or female.

[Indiachi.blogspot.com] IndiaCHI: User Experience blog from India.: These are really simple tools and techniques to understand the user experience – usability testing shows you how customers might be using your site, a thorough analysis of user metrics gathered from log files and other tools help you understand how they are really using it and user feedback tells you what they have to say about it.

[Indiachi.blogspot.com] IndiaCHI: User Experience blog from India.: Then there are other programs that have tried to solve this problem in the past and more recently IBM's Remail and Mitch Kapor's popular Chandler Open source project is attempting the same thing. A reader of this blog recently sent me a demo of an interesting new corporate e-mail management program developed by their company.

[Precommerce.com] The Pre-Commerce Blog: Usability & Conversion Archives: Fortunately for all of us, the invisible hand is increasingly making usability an issue. Not because anyone suddenly cares about silly things like logic or customer satisfaction, but because on web sites, better usability makes more money. The rise and recent dramtic improvement in web site analytics software, and impact of PPC advertising are dramatically increasing awareness of ROI, and as soon as you start working to improve ROI on web pages, you wind up working on usability. (BTW: It won't be called usability, it will be called conversion marketing or some similar new term.)

[Marketing-insights.co.uk] E-marketing Insights column - Internet marketing metrics - book review: Four chapters detailing metrics in these areas and includingthe need for multi-channel metrics form the core of this book. There certainlyaren’t a shortage of metrics in these chapters and the clear structure is good,but for the busy reader it would be nice to know what are ‘the measures that matter’which need to be reported on each week or month. This insight isn’t provided.If you are looking for a way to summarise key e-marketing metrics, MarketingInsights (www.marketing-insights.co.uk)provides a monthly reporting spreadsheet that highlights key measures such astraffic volumes, engagement and conversion rates.

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