Over the years I’ve been involved in Joomla, I’ve seen some great improvements in templates. Many templates are now very sophisticated, slick and beautiful. Just compare the early work of any of the veteran template providers with their recent efforts to see the quantum leaps they’ve all made. But while looks have improved, front-end usability […]
Top 10 Front-End Usability Mistakes on JomSocial
I am a huge JomSocial fan. I use it all the time and enjoy almost every minute. But like any website and application JomSocial’s usability too has room for improvement. The mistakes aren’t huge but they are easily fixed. There are empty fields on the profile page. Empty fields on the front end is neither […]
JomSocial Usability Testing Report
JomSocial is a new exciting Joomla extension. Up until now we had to work with Community Builder which is buggy, hard to use and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix (trust me, I've done that). From first look at JomSocial, it appears that it's a HUGE quantum leap from Community Builder, starting […]
JoomSuite Usability Testing Report
JoomSuite is a popular Joomla extension provider. The site has many products and a number of them are quite complex. Founder Sergey Romanov asked me to compete four tasks: Tasks: Obtain information about a product. Find and read the FAQ of the product. Purchase the product. Download the product. Watch the usability test video: Video […]