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I thought it was generally understood that lifespan on the web is pretty transitory. Yes, there are a few stayers such as delicious, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. But as myspace proved, there are no guarantees. What people seem to struggle to relinquish is the pointless quest to find the one web service that will do [...]
devilo.us CSS validator
There are many CSS validator on the net, a few supporting CSS3 – but this one I am choosing to recommend as it does a damn professional job of not only validating, but tidying and stripping out invalid attributes. I know the w3c validator does all this to a degree, but as far as usability [...]
Test Documents Sale!
If like me, and you work on a lot of test projects, templates are essential! So garnered from over 15 years in the QA contract business, I am offering collection of test documentation covering test strategies, test plans, test scripts, test reports, lifecycle diagrams, test standards checks (coding, accessibility, mobile readiness, usability, SEO). Also included [...]
If I wanted to be cynical …
If I wanted to be cynical I would say that when the user truly had power to have opinions, a lot of testers suddenly dropped out. Within a project where the user is dictated to, i.e. “don’t question us”, testing can proceed in an orderly manner. Business and development requirements only change if deemed necessary, [...]
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design “When it comes to abstract thinking, humans have extremely limited brainpower. For example, short-term memory famously holds only about 7 chunks of information, and these fade from your brain in about 20 seconds.” Short-term memory and web usability
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
It never hurts to re-iterate the basics, but also painful that they have to be. The 10 fundamentals listed here should be caught by code quality checks. It is important in testing not only to verify from front-end, but havign a quick check behind the code to check for standards such as meaningful ALT tags, [...]
