One of the stories that's making the rounds right now concerns Adam Orth, a (former) Creative Director at Microsoft who caused a ruckus by cramming his foot in his Twittermouth. He did so while ...

Heuristic evaluation and usability testing are two of the most established methods to evaluate software for usability. When in doubt, one is the winner. Assessing the ease of use of a software is ...

Welcome to my new blog, called On Second Thought. I have borrowed both the name and the concept for this blog from my new book, the full title of which is On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's ...

Extra: Preece et al. Interaction Design, page 343 for an introduction to the method and section 13.4 for a basic description of the method. Read the box: Dilemma on page 411 as well. Definition: ...

It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by scanning files using signatures ...

I recently received a few questions about heuristics and thought the answers may be of broader interest than just to the person asking. 1- What is the difference between the detection by generic ...

Heuristic analysis, an e-mail scanning technique that sifts through e-mail messages for the characteristics and behaviors that are unique to spam messages, may help. Dandelions might look pretty, but ...