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his spreadsheet allows you to measure task completion rates, analyse questionnaire data, and summarise participant comments. It even includes a timer so you can measure time-on-task. The spreadsheet is highly customisable.

Welcome to a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference guide detailing the leading Focus Group Facilities from around the world.

Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link… A great way to avoid accidentally clicking on a mailto link disguised as a hyperlink. Although, it would be much nicer if you just stopped designing it this way people…

The waterfall model is a sequential software development model (a process for the creation of software) in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall)

Why different projects require different development methodologies.

I don’t recall when I first saw that term, but I’m sure it was in a pejorative sense. I’m unaware of any article or paper that ever put forth the “waterfall methodology” as a positive or recommended approach to system development.

Many factors can affect the chosen project development method of an organization or project team. When evaluating which approach to take, consider whether the project is familiar territory with a predictable path, or a new frontier with uncertain outcomes

The waterfall methodology forces the solution to be implemented with a design that seemed appropriate at the beginning of the project, but usually ends up being either over or underengineered, resulting in poor performance and excessive maintenance costs.

Applying principles of human visual processing to maximize findability and minimize clutter effects in your windows and web pages.

One of the basic, overriding elements featured in CNN’s new website design and layout is something I like to call quiet structure. Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the l

Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don’t go as planned. – eh, I just love the way our brain works