Matthew Oliphant's usabilityworks.org — Design, Usability, Life, & Sagan

I am so very afraid right now.
Make sure you have your sound turned up…

My company is hiring for a Human Factors Analyst. Here’s a brief low down, or you can check out the Monster posting.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. or MS degree in Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or Experimental Psychology, with a specialty in computer software user interface design.
Background in creating metrics is also helpful.
Preferred […]

I realize I recently said that we should basically just ignore Yakob unless there is something specific we need. Essentially, take everything he writes/says with a truck-load of salt.
But, come now. Really. Honestly.

In the U.S. today, we have 2.3 million programmers. Current best practices call for allocating 10% of development […]

Who-wha-huh?
I went to Travelocity today. At least I thought I did. Turns out that my modicum of confusion was because Travelocity completely updated their site. I was there yesterday and it didn’t look like that. I can’t find anything on the Way Back Machine, though looking back to Travelocity in 1996 […]