Posts tagged ‘usability’

Evaluating 40 Typefaces

The October 2009 Usability News Newsletter has a great article highlighting a recent typography study on Web font faces.

Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces

This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and handwriting classes) using semantic differential scales. Responses are shown by typeface class and individual typeface using scaled scores. These results are helpful to practitioners when deciding which typeface to use for online text.”

SXSW 2008 Panel – A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?

A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?

  • Corey Chandler Lead Interaction Designer, eBay Inc
  • Jake Cressman Producer, Electronic Arts
  • Chris Maliwat Sr Dir of Prod Mgmt, Vuze Inc
  • Micah Alpern Design Dir Social Search, Yahoo! Inc
  • Elliot Shmukler Principal Prod Mgr, LinkedIn

Very valuable panel on testing design changes to determine their business outcome before unleashing it on the public at large. Check out my notes below.

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