Ah, that's what I like: the KISS method ("keep it simple, stupid"). All you need to remember in usability testing are 5 users/analysts and the 5 E's. If you want more on this or a different perspective, your taxes at work produce www.usability.gov.
By the way, the links you set up on this site will go on and on if you set them up right away. As you can see from the first one, I set it up immediately after typing the characters and every character after that became part of the link. So, you have to jump to another part of the text after setting up a link which means you have to type the whole blog then go back and set up the links. A usability issue.
Here goes with another link. The STC sig (special interest group) has a website devoted exclusively to usability: www.stcsig.org/usability/. Now, as I type, I'll finish then go back and establish that as a link. I just set it up and it worked.
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I'm in agreement with Sunset this week on KISS (keep it simple stupid). As writers, we may have to write content that is complex or create documents that are elaborate, but usability research, especially research done by Jacob Nielsen has taught us over and over again that web users prefer websites that are “concise, scannable, and objective”(1).
Great work.
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