Category Archives: Usability and Human Factors

How to Grow Standards

By Michael Feldstein | July 4, 2006

Scott Wilson has a terrific response to my recent post calling for “more standards.” To begin with, he articulates one of the underlying issues that I think was bugging Scott Leslie as well. In the abstract, it’s hard to argue against standards. In practice, however, the particular Standards that are Issued from the Official Bodies [...]

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A Good Window Into Information Architecture Trends

By Michael Feldstein | November 25, 2005

Rashmi Sinha has an outstanding post analyzing the information-finding affordances of Google Base. For people who are interested in learning some of the basic concepts in modern information architecture (IA), she does a great job of illustrating key ideas. (You may want to fire up another browser window and play around with Google Base while [...]

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I’m Giving a Webinar on e-Learning Usability

By Michael Feldstein | September 7, 2005

Just to let you know, I’ll be presenting in a webinar this Thursday on e-Learning usability.

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Threaded Discussion Interfaces: A Research Challenge

By Michael Feldstein | March 30, 2005

In the past, I have ranted about the fundamental flaws with threaded discussion interfaces as opposed to a simpler flat interface, where all posts in a conversation can be seen on one single, scrolling page. I am going to up the ante by making a more specific claim and challenging the research community to prove [...]

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Bloglines Still Sucks (Three Months and Counting…)

By Michael Feldstein | January 26, 2005

Yup, the Bloglines feed for e-Literate is still broken after three months. Yup, I’ve sent them multiple emails letting them know that the feed is still broken. Yup, I even let them know (in pretty blunt terms) that I was letting my readers know about the problem. (My experience with other web service providers is [...]

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