#30873
Few usability professionals are as well-rounded as Avi Parush. Avi has worked in industry and academia, testing and design, the Old World and the New, with web applications and airplane cockpits, in operating rooms and on the bridges of ships.
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Professionals Association (2008). Articles>Interviews>Web Design>Usability
#23852
How Much Interaction is Too Much?
Watching a colleague facilitate usability testing, the author asks what constitutes too much interaction by the facilitator. What his colleagues had to say got me thinking.
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Interface (2004). Articles>Usability>Testing
#28935
Testing Incentives: The Best Way to Pay
The topic of test subject compensation generates a lot of conversation...how do you motivate test participants?
Anderson, Clifford. Boxes and Arrows (2007). Articles>Usability>Testing>Methods
#31631
Do usability engineers make good managers? It depends. It's a profession that highly values its practitioners, is famous for its consultants and gurus, and also attracts its share of introverts.
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Professionals Association (2008). Articles>Interviews>Usability
#26240
Jared Spool is usability's 'bad boy.' With his challenging opinions and his theatrical way of presenting them, he has excited and frustrated usability practitioners and thought leaders for many years. Agree or disagree, love him or hate him, you have to give him credit. Jared's is one of the most easily-recognized names in the field.
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Professionals Association (2005). Articles>Usability
#31203
The usability of voting systems is something almost all usability practitioners can get excited about. It's interesting, it's important, it's in the news, it's challenging. Sharon Laskowski has been lucky to be in on this effort from the very beginning. Her team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) was tasked with doing major research and coming up with standards for these systems through the Help America Vote Act, passed by the US Congress in 2002.
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Professionals Association (2008). Articles>Interviews>Usability
#29326
Susan Dray was one of the first women in the field of usability. Since then, she's started her own company, published and spoken extensively, done important work with a number of professional organizations, and carved a niche for herself in field work and international usability. Through it all, though, her philosophy has remained the same: 'If the user can't use it, it doesn't work.'
Anderson, Clifford. Usability Professionals Association (2007). Articles>Interviews>Usability>History
