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These are my bookmarked pages from February 24th to February 25th:

• Create Your Communications Experience: Six Do’s to Open Your Presentations
  You have the highest interest at the beginning and end of your presentation. George Morrisey in his book Loud And Clear first put forth the Retention Curve principle, and it’s a good one you can use to your advantage.
• The UXBooth Reviews Silverback | UX Booth
  Traditionally, usability testing has been laborious to do professionally. Someone interested in the formal practice would need to buy a video camera, some expensive software, compose a script, and proctor a number of exams in which carefully chosen subjects completed a number of carefully chosen tasks. Today, a piece of software called Silverback seeks to help Usability enthusiasts get there with a baseline feature set and no additional hardware.
• FeraLabs » Blog Archive » Is All Remote Usability Testing The Same?
  Every time we talk about remote usability testing, many people have many different ideas of what remote testing is. And there are many different remote testing methods.
• Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters
  When people talk about both usability and accessibility, it is often to point out how they differ. Accessibility often gets pigeon-holed as simply making sure there are no barriers to access for screen readers or other assistive technology, without regard to usability, while usability usually targets everyone who uses a site or product, without considering people who have disabilities. In fact, the concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?
• Reviewing User Interfaces :: UXmatters
  Has your boss or a client ever asked you to review a user interface for a Web or desktop application? Perhaps the request went something like this: Can you just look over these new screens for us? Oh, and can you check the error messages, too? It won’t take long! And, by the way, we ship next month. Whether you are an interaction designer, usability professional, technical communicator, quality assurance engineer, or developer, reviewing a user interface typically means identifying

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