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Usability = Wichtig. Das weiß jeder. Wie man benutzbare Websites baut, ist dann aber schon kein allgemeines Wissen mehr. Viele Webschaffende verlassen sich auch ihre Erfahrung und aufs Bauchgefühl. Ob das reicht, sei dahingestellt. Nötig wäre es nicht, denn es gibt eine Fülle unterstützender Werkzeuge und Services. Die müssen nicht zwangsläufig umständlich oder teuer sein - und helfen dann vielleicht doch.

Es lassen sich im Groben drei Verfahren unterscheiden:

* Dem User werden Aufgaben gestellt, die Ergebnisse werden aufgezeichnet und ausgewertet.
* Man schaut dem Nutzer beim Surfen zu, die Aktionen werden aufgezeichnet und ausgewertet.
* Man sammelt direktes Feedback von den Nutzern ein.

Diese Dienste nutzen entweder das so genannte Crowdsourcing, das heißt die Hilfe der User, oder arbeiten auf Basis einer Software. Das eigene Usability-Labor entfällt. Mit einer Ausnahme sind alle Dienste englischsprachig.

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Wireframes can be created in many ways with several tools depending upon one’s communication needs and budget. Most simply, pen and paper are key tools for creating web wireframes. In addition some designers and developers are using Illustrator, Fireworks or PowerPoint to create wireframes. There are also interactive wireframe tools available for use by designers, programmers, and project managers, which allow collaboration with clients prior to the website programming stage. Wireframe tools included in this list allows you to make wireframes from low to high fidelity, work in collaboration with your team and clients, get feedback from stakeholders.

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In my last article, I gave examples of the key things that I learned from Steve Krug’s great book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition. In that article, I asked people to share key books in their Usability and User Experience libraries. I also asked our Twitter followers and here are what other UXBooth readers had to recommend:

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It has long been common practice to use recurring solutions to solve common problems. Such solutions are called design patterns; standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. This website seeks to better the situation for the UI designer, who struggles with the same problems as many other UI designers have struggled with before him.

This site will help you in two ways: You can read insightful design pattern articles or browse through our screenshot collection.

Finally, you can help your fellow peers by uploading your own screenshots of great user interfaces.

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Die Bildschirmarbeitsverordnung fordert die Berücksichtigung ergonomischer Grundsätze auch bei Software. Diese software-ergonomischen Grundsätze sind in der für den deutschsprachigen Raum gültigen Norm DIN EN ISO 9241-110 (vorher Teil 10) aufgeführt. Moderne grafische Datenbankanwendungen müssen ebenso wie Internetseiten diese Anforderungen erfüllen.

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Screen Architect is a prototyping tool specifically developed to allow rapid prototyping of user interfaces.

Screen Architect is a plug-in to the popular UML CASE tool Enterprise Architect allowing traceability between screen elements and the underlying analysis model.

It has easy to use functionality, seamless integration with Enterprise Architect and offers great value for money.

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A few years ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a designer possessed of a rare talent. We were both part of the same team and he was creating some UI elements that I was to wire up. As I sat there (in awe) watching him work I realized that much of his considerable skill was rooted in fundamentals not unlike the art of programming. Of course, there are design skills that are intuitive that can't be "learned." But, that can also be said of the logical clarity found in a really elegant data model or a brilliant inheritance tree. I am certainly no designer, but I have observed the more creative among us for several years and have gained some insight into their world. In this article I'll share some basic principles that can help raise your design acumen and improve the experience of your users.

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A few years ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a designer possessed of a rare talent. We were both part of the same team and he was creating some UI elements that I was to wire up. As I sat there (in awe) watching him work I realized that much of his considerable skill was rooted in fundamentals not unlike the art of programming. Of course, there are design skills that are intuitive that can't be "learned." But, that can also be said of the logical clarity found in a really elegant data model or a brilliant inheritance tree. I am certainly no designer, but I have observed the more creative among us for several years and have gained some insight into their world. In this article I'll share some basic principles that can help raise your design acumen and improve the experience of your users.

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WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes.

* Create UI mockups in no time
* Get feedback from your customers
* Build better software!

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TouchXperience is the Next Generation User Interface for Windows Mobile, finger friendly and highly customizable, it offers many interesting features: program launcher, contacts manager, home screen, appointments, messaging, task manager, profile and event manager, call log, control panel, communication manager,...

TouchMenu is probably the most powerful and customizable menu, replacing original Start Menu for an innovative touch interface. TouchMenu supports finger scrolling and gestures, for example you can switch from a menu to another by sliding your finger left/right, or display context menu by a long press on the screen. You can also scroll menus using G-sensor. Each menu has four different views (large list, small list, large grid, small grid). As the rest of the future user interface, TouchMenu has a nice Vista/WM7 look.

TouchMenu has various built-in menus :

* All Programs (Start Menu replacement)
* Active Programs (Task Manager)
* Recent programs
* Favorite programs
* Settings (Control Panel)
* Documents
* Favorite Websites
* Contacts
* Messaging
* Appointments
* Tasks
* Calls (Call Log)
* Communications (Comm. Manager)
* RSS feeds
* Power Actions
* End Actions
* One Touch Settings

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Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets.

Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.

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This report reviews the designs and usability of ten applications that were chosen from a much larger number of nominated designs. The report is richly illustrated with 206 full-color screenshots, giving readers the unique opportunity to see good user interfaces from highly specialized applications that are usually not available to the public.

The 10 winning applications are:

* Campaign Monitor by Eyeblaster (Israel): integrated management of multiple advertising campaigns for media buyers.
* CMSBox by CMSBox (Switzerland): content management system.
* FotoFlexer by Arbor Labs (USA): photo editor.
* PRISMAprepare by Océ (Netherlands): print shop software.
* Seating Management by Magellan Network and DesignMap (USA): hostess stand reservation book for restaurants.
* SQL diagnostic manager by Idera (USA): database performance monitoring and diagnostics.
* SugarSync by Sharpcast (USA): synchronizing files across multiple computers.
* SuperSaaS by SuperSaaS (Netherlands): creating and hosting scheduling and reservation systems.
* Wufoo by Infinity Box, Inc. (USA): online forms, surveys, invitations, and payments.
* Xero by Xero (New Zealand): accounting for small businesses.

These applications represent both mission-critical applications and apps targeted at a broader audience.

The bulk of the report consists of detailed case studies of each of the ten winning applications, including discussions of the main problems they faced and how these problems were overcome in the design process.

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Axure RP Pro
Axure RP is the leading tool for rapidly creating wireframes, prototypes and specifications for applications and web sites.

Transform the way you work.
• Design more efficiently
• Experience dynamic prototypes
• Communicate ideas more clearly Designed for you.
UX professionals, business analysts, and application designers from Global 1000 companies, and leading agencies use Axure RP.

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The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

* Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
* Multi-page document with background page
* On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
* PNG rasterizing
* Undo/redo supports
* Installing user-defined stencils
* Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
* Cross-platforms
* Adding external objects
* And much more...

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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics:

* Ad Units
* Calendars
* Carousels
* Charts and Tables
* UI Controls
* Form Elements

* Grids
* Menus and Buttons
* Mobile - General
* Mobile - iPhone
* Navigation and Pagination
* OS Elements

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Window Animations app to bring some life to ur windows Experience
Has good amount of options and settings to set
Read the that comes up after installation to know all that u can do

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With the introduction of Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 at MIX08 in March, the infant Silverlight platform took a big step forward. It now has rich support for data binding. It has a vastly increased subset of WPF's UI engine. It even has radical new technologies like Deep Zoom. But most importantly, Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 introduces a brand new collection of built-in UI controls.

The new UI controls are not a surprise, but they are a key milestone in Silverlight's maturation. Microsoft has always shipped platform technologies with a collection of built-in controls, and beta 1 ushers in that era for Silverlight. Developers evaluating the platform as an alternative to building applications in ASP.NET or WinForms can now seriously consider it since it has the beginnings of the complete UI productivity toolbox.

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