Usability Archives

Your Careers Site Sucks (Somebody had to tell you.)

by deCadmus | Aug 5, 2015 | Usability, Web/Tech

If your company is to flourish and grow you need to be able to recruit great talent. How are you going to do that with a careers site that turns off your candidates?

Honor Relics, Embrace Change

by deCadmus | Jul 27, 2015 | Usability, Web/Tech

I’m now in my 20th year of being a career Internet technologist. And, in the spirit of embracing change, I’m available for hire.

Designing Work Spaces the Google Way: Driven by Data

by deCadmus | Feb 26, 2013 | Usability, Web/Tech

After years of being among “the world’s best hermit crabs” by repurposing others’ leftover bits of real estate, Google is considering building its own Googleplex “from scratch”.

A Pile of Content Strategy Books and No Stack to Show for It

by deCadmus | Feb 5, 2013 | Usability, Web/Tech

I’ve been hitting the books on Content Strategy. Here’s what my current reading pile looks like. Or, what would be a pile…

It’s (Still) Not About the Technology

by deCadmus | Aug 4, 2011 | Arts & Letters, Gadgetopia, Usability

With 100,000 subscribers, The New Yorker is enjoying better sales on the iPad than its sister Condé Nast publications — including Wired Magazine.

But wait… Wired is all about technology — and in particular all things digital — and the iPad is a digital platform. Shouldn’t they go together like peaches and cream? Pizza and beer? Like Wired Magazine and a freaking 21st century wireless multimedia tablet display? Well, yeah.

Groupthink by Any Other Name

by deCadmus | Oct 6, 2008 | Body Politic, Featured, Usability

I’ll admit it: the usability geek in me is smitten with the coolest doodad of the political season, CNN’s live dial-testing of a focus group during the debates. There it is in real-time — the collective response of a group of undecided and presumably...