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Company blog · userfocus.co.uk/articlesdesignbusiness

Userfocus is the company blog at userfocus.co.uk, writing about design and business. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Web usability guidelines”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Userfocus for usability and UX material, including a summary of the ISO 9241-110 usability principles and the free article The Fable of the User-Centered Designer, which one commenter calls an excellent intro.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Userfocus is on sabattical.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Web usability guidelines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. onli · 2014-02-22
    > Usable means an interface which is (i) consistent and (ii) well suited to the task at hand. No it doesn't. Usable as in Usability is defined in the ISO-norm 9241-110 by seven principles, a summary can be found here: http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/iso9241/part110.html "suitability for the task (the dialogue should be suitable for the user’s task and skill level); self-descriptiveness (the dialogue should make…

    Comment linking /resources/iso9241/part110.html

    on “Neovim”
  2. yusukeito · 2011-10-30

    Submitted A CRAP way to improve usability as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  3. Leftium · 2016-10-15Recommends
    Excellent intro (free): The Fable of the User-Centered Designer [1] His Udemy course is also very good: User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX [2] [1]: http://www.userfocus.co.uk/fable/ [2]: https://www.udemy.com/ultimate-guide-to-ux/

    Comment linking /fable/

    on “Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?”
  4. kungfudoi · 2009-07-06

    Submitted Web usability guidelines as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. blauwbilgorgel · 2012-04-12
    My baseline tools and resources for front-end development: - Page speed https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/ http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ - Valid HTML http://validator.w3.org/ http://html5.validator.nu/ - Usability http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/guidelines.html http://www.useit.com/ - Accessibility http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ - On-page SEO http://www.…

    Comment linking /resources/guidelines.html

    on “A Baseline for Front-End Developers”
  6. commanderj · 2012-03-08

    Submitted Lean ways to test your new business idea as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. riffraff · 2012-04-03

    Submitted How to tell managers they’re wrong about UX research and still get hired as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. nvk · 2013-04-09

    Submitted The usability error you don’t know you’re making as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. kingsidharth · 2010-11-17

    Submitted Usability: Communicating errors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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