Archive for the 'Usability' Category

Translating Usability to Dev-Speak

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The standard definition of usability is “The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.”
That definition works on my computer! … </tumbleweed>
There’s a lot of opportunity in that definition for “but what does that [...]

Matto Show Ep 3 — mbta.com & fanfiction.net

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

In this episode I looked at mbta.com and fanfiction.net.
Unfortunately, the problem I was having with mbta.com earlier in the day was not happening when I went to do the show. Curse them for working properly! :) Fanfiction.net was submitted by a viewer and we talked about ways to make the community of fan [...]

Bloglines (beta) vs. Google Reader (!beta?)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Plug: I’ll be doing my show tomorrow night at 8pm ET. Live reviews of web sites and apps that you choose. Come see the show and participate too. It’s more fun that way.
Whitney Hess wrote a post today comparing Bloglines Beta and Google Reader. I thought I’d write a response here [...]

Matto Show Ep 2 — Lego.com

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I didn’t do much to advertise this week’s show as I’ve been sick (as you can plainly tell by watching the show). So no one showed up, but that’s okay. I had always planned for that possibility. As such, I took a look at a problem on Lego.com where they don’t do [...]