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Usability Testing - few thoughts

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Usability testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users Usability testing focuses on measuring a human-made product's capacity to meet its intended purpose . Examples of products that commonly benefit from usability testing are web sites or web applications, computer interfaces, documents, or devices. Usability testing measures the usability, or ease of use, of a specific object or set of objects, whereas general human-computer interaction studies attempt to formulate universal principles. If you develop web sites, you need to be doing usability testing. It is that simple . This tutorial will teach you how to conduct a simple usability test on your web site (using the hands-on task based method). Plan the Usability Test 1) Know the Goals of the Usability Test The primary point of usability testing is to provide feedback during the design/development process to ensure that the web site will actually be easy and effective to use and provide valuable inform...

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. jQuery is an amazing JavaScript library that makes it easy to create wonderful web effects in just a few lines of code. As the website says:” “jQuery is a JavaScript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing JavaScript code should be fun. jQuery achieves this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable.” Maybe you are thinking… “Why I would need another JavaScript library”? Just give a try and you will see how simple and powerful it is even if you have already used Moo.fx, Scriptaculous, TW-SACK or Prototype. Why I should use jQuery? Simple. In just one glance at the source code of a page using jQuery you’ll see how easy it is to use, how much it accompli...

What does a front-end web developer do?

Front-end web developers, the "artists" formerly known as web designers are the bunch of people in the company that make sure that the data coming from the backend gets displayed on the browser. They also make sure it looks as closely as possible as the design, that , CED came up with, and that the user can navigate through it, accessing the data. Front-end web developers, the "artists" formerly known as web designers are the bunch of people in the company that make sure that the data coming from the backend gets displayed on the browser. They also make sure it looks as closely as possible as the design, that , CED came up with, and that the user can navigate through it, accessing the data. Web developers don't have it as easy as it sounds though. True enough, markup languages are easy to learn and scripting languages are not much harder, but there is an aspect of uncertainty, that has to be taken into consideration, when judging their skills. As a web develope...