Life-Long Computer Skills

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for February 26 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/computer-skills.html
		
Summary:
Schools should teach deep, strategic computer insights that
can't be learned from reading a manual.
	
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Usability Week 2007 conference

  > Hong Kong, March 5-9
  > Washington, DC, April 22-27
  > London, May 6-11
  > San Francisco, June 18-23

In-depth training:
  > 3-day Intensive Camp: Usability in Practice
  > 3-day Immersion: Tog on Interaction Design

10 specialized full-day tutorials:
  > Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
  > Application Usability (2 days)
  > Intranet Usability (2 days)
  > B2B Sites
  > Websites That Sell
  > Presenting Company Information on Corporate Websites
  > E-Mail Newsletter Usability
  > Writing for the Web

  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

This Friday, March 2, is the deadline to save US$200 by
advance registration for the Hong Kong conference.

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Banner Blindness Decides Florida Election

A poorly designed ballot hit Florida again in the 2006 elections, this
time in Sarasota County. About 13% of voters failed to cast a vote for the
House of Representatives. Voting was done on a touch-screen computer.

Anybody who understands Web usability knows what caused this problem:
banner blindness. People have a tendency to never look at a slim
rectangular area that's above the page's main headline.

Detailed analysis of this usability problem in ballot design:

> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness-ballot-design.html