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Tomorrow is the World Usability Day!

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:21:33 +0000

Mark your calendars: November 12th is the World Usability Day! This celebration entirely focused on usability is organized by The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) since 2004. For this year, Utilisabilité Québec (the Quebec branch of the UPA) is preparing several conferences related to usability with the theme Designing for a sustainable world. The gathering will take [...]

What Makes a Good Intranet site

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:41:04 +0000

The development of corporate intranets is often overlooked. Not enough thought is put into organizing its content logically. Good intranets can really increase efficiency in your office. You need to think of the employees who will have to use it to publish or find information. Here are some key considerations of a good intranet: Clear purpose. Determine [...]

Design Tips for Startups

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:44:45 +0000

Thousands of startups are founded each year. Each and every one of them offers products that will fullfil needs on the market. Giving new products visibility is one of the biggest challenge startups face. Indeed, the launch of any new product has to be meticulously thought out to be successful. These first steps need to [...]

Tips to encourage user registration and participation

Gabriel Alberola — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:59:39 +0000

One of the many challenges of running a Website is attracting an audience that will stay loyal. It’s a jungle out there and there may be a dozen of Websites that offer similar content to yours. How can you differentiate yourself? To build loyalty, you may want to engage users by including a community. Setting up [...]

How to Create a Good Online Shopping Experience Part 2: Shopping Cart and Checkout Process

Gabriel Alberola — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:29:05 +0000

In part 1 of our two-part feature, we studied the best ways to develop a good product page. Creating a user-friendly product page is beneficial but the following steps have even more impact. Your user will expect to easily be able to add various products to his virtual shopping cart and for the checkout process [...]

How to Create a Good Online Shopping Experience Part 1: Product Page Design

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:01:44 +0000

Online shopping has evolved considerably since its beginnings a few years ago. More and more people worry less about giving their information to online retailers, making e-commerce sites more viable. However, in order to be successful, you have to gain your customers’ trust by offering a credible and user-friendly place to shop. In this first [...]

How to Design a Good Error Page

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:03:17 +0000

We’ve all felt the frustration of landing on a stubborn 404 error page while browsing the Web. Whether a user’s blunder or simply a broken link, this occurrence is inevitable, especially if your website contains many pages. Enterprises generally neglect developing a contingency plan for these events. It’s truly unfortunate as a good error page [...]

UX Gathering Tomorrow at Le Belmont!

Gabriel Alberola — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:18:31 +0000

If you’re free tomorrow evening, you should definitely drop by our UX happy hour! As usual, we’re organizing it with Utilisabilité Québec, an affiliate of the Usability Professional’s Association. It starts at 5 PM at Le Belmont, located at 4483, St-Laurent blvd. (map). The theme for this gathering will be the relation between Web writing and the [...]

Great Idea - Continuous Scrolling

Étienne Garbugli — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:26:50 +0000

Search behavior evolved largely due to Google. People now assume that only the first page of results is relevant. Pagination is often painful to use, difficult to search and arbitrary but, the alternative (displaying all results on a single page) is no better since it calls for intimidating and slow-loading pages. Continuous Scrolling (or [...]

Usability Intern Opening at Kotsego

Étienne Garbugli — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:38:12 +0000

Looking for a great learning opportunity? In need of concrete experience? Kotsego, a user-centered Web design agency located in Montreal, is looking for candidates for a paid internship in Fall 2009. The intern will be asked to perform the following tasks: Analyze workflows, evaluate interfaces and wireframe Websites (under supervision). Write articles on user experience and participate in social networking. Do [...]