Usability

Google Maps: cases from travel websites

Google Maps is great. If you use it well.
Take a look at these Google Maps examples on travel websites

Page fold: myth or reality?

Is the page fold a myth? Do or don’t people scroll?
Find out everything you’ve always wanted to know about the page fold

Can you pick the right picture?

Do you think a picture is worth a thousand words?
Take our little single question quiz

Usability Awards 2009: vote for your favourite!

Out of more than 200 submissions, a professional jury has shortlisted 10 websites for the 2009 edition of the Belgian Usability Awards.
It’s up to you to vote!

Unisys homepage: can I click it?

The Unisys homepage looks nice. Unfortunately that’s only true at first glance.
Can you tell what’s clickable?

Screen resolution statistics and tips

Which screen resolutions do people in Belgium use to surf the web?
What does that mean for your website’s layout?

The right message at the right time

Show messages only when they’re relevant for the user’s particular situation.
See how Flickr got this one wrong

Browser statistics

Which browsers and operating systems do people use to surf your website in Belgium?
Take at look at these figures for September 2009

No such thing as bad publicity?

Is there really no such thing as bad publicity? What about somebody else’s bad publicity shown on your website?
Check out this example from Citroën

Usability pot-pourri

2 articles about usability, a handy tool, a few quotes and a movie. A South Park spoof.
Go on, you know you want to see this stuff