Diversity is Power for Specialized Sites

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for June 16 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030616.html

Summary:
Small websites get less traffic than big ones, but they can still dominate
their niches. For each question users ask, the Web delivers a different
set of sites to provide the answers.

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Examples needed for my next book:

My next book will be about usability methodology.
I need examples of projects that have employed any of the many available
usability methods to improve the design of a website, intranet,
web-based application, mobile data access, interactive TV,
or any other user interface.

Examples can be big: full-scale corporate sites with many rounds of user
testing and field studies.
Or they can be small: a single screen that was improved based on a
specific guideline or test result.

It's particularly helpful if you can provide before/after screenshots
(even better: shots of several iterations, each with user testing or other
usability findings explaining why they were changed). It's also nice if
there are metrics to estimate the degree of improvement in the user
experience. But the most important is a good story that illustrates a
usability method in the context of an interesting project.

If you are willing to contribute an example, please contact
Candice Goodwin at Nielsen Norman Group at: [email protected]
Just email a short description of the project, the usability method used,
and any screenshots or other illustrations that are available.