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Handheld Usability

with Scott Weiss

13thSep '04

About the event

Scott Weiss, from Usable Products, gave a fascinating talk on Handheld Usability Scott 's book "Handheld Usability" is the state of the art guide to researching and creating usable mobile and handheld products and applications. This talk looked at the a huge variety of handheld products, user-centered development of handheld products, interaction design guidelines, future trends, and the unique challenges faced when designing for handheld devices.

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Handheld Usability (1.9MB PDF file)

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2010: Mementoys - usability in product design

2009: Mobile Usability / iPhone App; Election Ballot Usability; Online Qualitative Research - new ways to find out what consumers really think; Prototyping - the landscape and review of Axure RP Pro; Improving Website Usability Using Google Website Optimiser; Web Accessibility update - new guidelines and standards for web accessibility; Designing for Dyslexia

2008: Building the Usability Profession; Exchange of Ideas: Agile/XP and User Experience; Comparative Usability Evaluations: Usability testing vs Expert evaluation; Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines; Scottish Usability Showcase; Sub-groups, Deviants and Navigational Alignment: Advanced topics in card sorting; The Perpetual Super-Novice; Label placement in forms (and other time-consuming forms controversies); Implementing usability changes on an already successful site

2007: Games Usability; Scottish Usability Showcase for World Usability Day; Interactive TV usability: Is the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) dead?; Choosing the right technique - the right answers to the right questions; An Award Winning Usability Programme; Usability in the travel industry; Writing for the Web; Designing and Evaluating Mobile Applications for New Social Experiences; University Showcase - Usability research projects from Scottish Universities; Usability and SEO - pulling in the same direction?; Scottish Usability Showcase 2006

2006: Usability standards, the Usability Maturity Model and what they are good for; Everything you've always wanted to know about card sorting; Content Management Systems and Usability; Web Accessibility Primer on WCAG 2.0 and Including Users with Disabilities; Making search a good user experience; Presentation on usability testing software

2005: Web analytics and usability; Usability in government websites; Usability and accessibility with tomorrow's web technologies; Scottish Usability Showcase on World Usability Day; Information Visualisation; Conducting International and Cross Cultural User Research; Web accessibility; Ethnography in the 21st Century; Child centred design and computer games; Delivering a Usable Experience with Rich Internet Applications; The Power of Hindsight; Eyetracking presentation; Thinking Big - Creating usable enterprise portals; Interactive TV usability and accessibility; Insights into Information Architecture for the web

2004: Web accessibility - presentation and demonstration; Handheld Usability; Usability and Public Technology - The complexity behind the simplicity