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Firefox is Coming to the iPhone

Firefox team has been working on an application for the iPhone. The app is called Firefox Home. Firefox Home gives iPhone users access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. There is also a bar that enables users to get to their favorite web sites

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iPhone 4 in June

AT&T confirms that the new iPhone will be available for purchase in late June.

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Is web ready for HTML5?

According to online ad network Chitika, 46% of all web users are already using HTML5-compatible browsers. HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). It is a core markup language of the World Wide Web. HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level

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Heuristic evaluation

Heuristic evaluation is done by looking at the interface and trying to find out what is bad and what is good about this interface. The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find usability problems. The more people evaluators the better. The single evaluator will miss most of the usability problems in an interface. Averaged over

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iPhone 4 and video chat

According to a trusted source Apple’s next iPhone will allow a video chat conversation using the new front-facing camera. Apple is already creating adverts about iPhone 4, and at least one ad will feature a mother and daughter talking via video chat with their new iPhones.

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I.B.M. Buys Sterling Commerce unit of AT&T

I.B.M. Buys an AT&T Business Software Unit for $1.4 billion, Sterling Commerce unit of AT&T makes software that helps businesses buy and sell to each other

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Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder

Carolyn Snyder defines paper prototyping as a method of brainstorming, designing, creating, testing and communicating user interfaces. She simply explains how does it work. You meet members of your team to choose the type of user who represents audience for the interface. You also determine tasks you expect this user to do. Then you sketch

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Online Video

According to a new report by The Diffusion Group (TDG) Americans will watch more online video than broadcast TV by 2020. Right now U.S. viewers watch only 22 minutes of online video a week. However, according to TDG, in 10 years, that number will rise to more than two hours a day.

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Usability Testing – guide and stats

Who should we ask to test our design? Should that be an experts or rather novices? In 1992 Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a leading web usability consultant) made an experiment, in which he used three groups of evaluators: Novice, Double and Double. Novice – no experience in usability engineering Regular – general

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Interpreting Tests Results of Usability Testing

Let’s assume I arranged an usability test for a new project and my team came out with ideas how to improve the assignment. What to do now? According to a book “Don’t make me think” by Steve Krug, I should review the results right away. The team has to analyze the problems and decide how

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