Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for October 17 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html
	
Summary:
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,
making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the
author.

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User Experience 2005 conference

  > Boston, October 23-28
  > London, November 13-18

33 full-day tutorials over 6 days.
Come for as few or as many days as you like.

Deadline to save $200 on Boston registration: this Friday, Oct 21

More info and full program:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

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John Pruitt and Tamara Adlin's new book about personas is finally
shipping.

This is without a doubt the best book about personas, based on the
authors' extensive experience from Microsoft and Amazon.com plus
contributions from many outside experts (including Don Norman). The
coverage is thorough and immensely practical with lots of hands-on tips.

Too many others use personas to say "Mary wouldn't like this design idea"
when Mary doesn't exist as anything but a figment of their personal
imagination. Pruitt and Adlin tell you how to ground personas in real
users.

  > http://www.useit.com/books/personas