Every girl needs a little adventure in her life
I recently presented Evaluating the User Interface and User Experience at the Boston Drupal 4 Design camp, held at MIT's Stata Center.
My presentation was for web designers, Drupal themers and anyone else involved in web projects, but my message is this: test and QA your own work, but don't QA your work by yourself; always get a second pair of eyes. My talk covered* the whys and hows of best practices and testing:
In my Evaluating the User Interface and User Experience presentation at the Boston Design 4 Drupal camp, I touched on the need for designers to check the color contrast between foreground and background page elements, to ensure the color combination is usable and accessible to all.
UPDATE: I've added a bit more about my first proper presentation experience and photos....and thought of some other people I chatted with.
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What a ride!! Volunteering, learning, laughter, sleep deprivation...
I'm looking forward to the first annual Boston Drupal Design Camp coming up on
June 13-14, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://boston.design4drupal.org/!
I'll be hosting a session on quality assurance best practices but still working out the details...
I've also volunteered to be a member of the camp's Green Team. We will make green and sustainable product choices whenever possible.
In this blog post, I explain why all registration form submission error messages should be stated in plain language as a single step, not in an irritating succession.
Just now, I tried registering for BNET, after being prompted to login or register to read an article. Fine, whatever. I'll register.
The registration form is too long (while writing this, I went back and counted 18 fields. 18, really?
