Articles and resources tagged “navigation”

Tips for writing user manuals

User manuals have a bad reputation. In a recent USA Today poll that asked readers "Which technological things have the ability to confuse you?" user manuals came out top! Increasingly companies are rethinking the way they approach user manuals. Here are some suggestions for improving the usability of user manuals based on our experience writing them.

The A-Z of Usability

Rather than create yet another definition of usability, we decided to take a different approach and work through the alphabet, picking one word for each letter to capture the flavour of the field. So we proudly present the A-Z of usability — or usability in 26 words.

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  1. 7 articles tagged accessibility
  2. 3 articles tagged axure
  3. 4 articles tagged benefits
  4. 8 articles tagged case study
  5. 1 article tagged css
  6. 6 articles tagged discount usability
  7. 2 articles tagged ecommerce
  8. 3 articles tagged ethnography
  9. 14 articles tagged expert review
  10. 1 article tagged fitts law
  11. 1 article tagged focus groups
  12. 1 article tagged forms
  13. 6 articles tagged guidelines
  14. 10 articles tagged heuristic evaluation
  15. 7 articles tagged ia
  16. 14 articles tagged iso 9241
  17. 6 articles tagged iterative design
  18. 3 articles tagged layout
  19. 1 article tagged legal
  20. 28 articles tagged management
  21. 10 articles tagged metrics
  22. 3 articles tagged mobile
  23. 5 articles tagged moderating
  24. 3 articles tagged morae
  25. 2 articles tagged navigation
  26. 6 articles tagged personas
  27. 13 articles tagged prototyping
  28. 7 articles tagged questionnaires
  29. 4 articles tagged roi
  30. 12 articles tagged selling usability
  31. 12 articles tagged standards
  32. 2 articles tagged style guide
  33. 4 articles tagged survey design
  34. 4 articles tagged task scenarios
  35. 2 articles tagged templates
  36. 17 articles tagged tools
  37. 39 articles tagged usability testing
  38. 3 articles tagged user manual

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