Java Posse #170 - Roundup 08 - UI Polish and Usability

Roundup 08 - User Interface Polish and Usability Testing Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Usability Testing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing Apple Usability http://www.apple.com World of Warcraft http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml Yahoo! Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ BMW iDrive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDrive Nintendo Wii http://www.nintendo.com/wii Acceptable Complexity http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/ Vol.10/10.01/ComplexityDilemma/index.html Edward Tufte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ Craigslist http://craigslist.org Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected]