Scott Berkun

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• Bryan Zug - November 2, 2005 at 10:23 am #

• http://www.seattlechildrens.org — please!

  
  

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• JJ - November 2, 2005 at 10:28 am #

• Oh come on now – we have to get you to do something from the evil empire, don’t we?

  How about one of: http://www.msn.com, http://www.hotmail.com or http://www.msdn.com. Eh?

  
  

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• Christian Watson - November 2, 2005 at 10:33 am #

• Scott, I’ll take you up on your offer and second Bryan’s request. I am the manager of the web team that runs http://www.seattlechildrens.org and it would be interesting and useful to know your thoughts on the site.

  We are in the early stages of redesigning our home and ‘hub’ pages to make it easier for visitors to get to the content they need, and so it would be helpful to hear your feedback.

  
  

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• Feature Creep - November 2, 2005 at 10:34 am #

• Check out http://www.feedshot.com. I threw it together in a few hours and it needs some help.

  Thanks for your offer!

  
  

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• Mehmet - November 2, 2005 at 10:34 am #

• https://www.unb.ca/application/

  
  

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• Bryan Zug - November 2, 2005 at 10:45 am #

• >>
  Oh come on now – we have to get you to do something from the evil empire, don’t we?
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  Good point.

  I would actually get a lot of mileage from a usability review of the current version of Sharepoint — but we don’t have a public facing version that would be easy to eval.

  Anyone else interested? If so anyone know of any public or demo sites that are pretty much a default install of Sharepoint that could be used for such a thing.

  
  

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• Keith Instone - November 2, 2005 at 10:50 am #

• We know it ain’t perfect, and lots of people really LOVE to tell us how unusable the site is. Join the fun, give us your review.

  http://worldusabilityday.org/

  
  

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• Ario - November 2, 2005 at 11:13 am #

• probably too late, but would love feedback on http://www.realarcade.com

  
  

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• Danny Hope - November 2, 2005 at 11:26 am #

• We’ve tried to adhere to good usability principals with our site but we know it needs work.

  http://hobointernet.com

  
  

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• Brent Shelkey - November 2, 2005 at 12:03 pm #

• Crap! #10. Hope you get to this… we’re about to enter another redesign cycle and I’m curious for your opinions.

  http://www.premierinc.com

  
  

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• Sharon French - November 2, 2005 at 1:23 pm #

• This is a real estate tool that allows consumers to search for property listings.

  There is a portion of the site that you can get information about our product without loggin in, and an entire product you can get access to by signing up.

  Any feedback on either portion of the site would be hugely appreciated.

  
  

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• Sharon French - November 2, 2005 at 1:49 pm #

• http://www.mlspulse.com is the site I reference in my previous comment.

  I mistakenly thought the “Website” field in the “Leave a Reply” section would be included as part of my post.

  
  

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• Steve Slotnick - November 2, 2005 at 2:31 pm #

• http://www.maizeweb.com

  This started as a project at the University of Michigan, now we’re trying to build upon it for fun. We’ve just gotten to the point where we can start thinking about getting some users, so we’d love to know more about the usability.

  
  

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• Busy - November 2, 2005 at 2:48 pm #

• Sharon French said, “I mistakenly thought the “Website” field in the “Leave a Reply” section would be included as part of my post.”

  I think this is an example of usability issues that are easy to miss. The *website* field in blog comments is very common, and typically works the same way, but if even one person leaves a comment that they were confused about it, then how many people could be silently confused about it? After all there’s tons of people who don’t have their own website.

  Even though it’s something small that’s not critical to the total site experience, little details like this can make a big difference in a site. Especially for novice users.

  (Don’t know how to make it better though, perhaps more descriptive text, or maybe there isn’t a better way ;)

  
  

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• Scott (admin) - November 2, 2005 at 4:08 pm #

• Hasn’t anyone written articles on blog usability? Nielsen wrote one but it was more about general blog design, rather than little gotchas like this one.

  
  

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• Elaine Nelson - November 2, 2005 at 4:12 pm #

• okay, probably too late in the queue, but here’s my work site: http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/ — I’m particularly curious about your take on the Student Online Services section .

  thanks for even offering!

  
  

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• Mowgli - November 2, 2005 at 5:26 pm #

• I would appreciate any comments (positive or negative) about this site….

  http://www.universalgroup.net/

  Thanks very much

  
  

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• Ian Fenn - November 2, 2005 at 7:10 pm #

• http://www.chopstix.com/ — Just this second published – so I couldn’t suggest it any earlier. Now how’s that for an excuse?

  
  

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• Ralph - November 2, 2005 at 9:31 pm #

• I just wanted you to review our site: http://www.pagebites.com/

  Thanks,
  Ralph

  
  

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• Alex Bendig - November 2, 2005 at 11:23 pm #

• This is a great idea! Are you going to make your reviews available on your blog?

  
  

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• Rob Dolin - November 3, 2005 at 12:12 am #

• Hey Scott, would you mind sharing your thoughts on the national Young Democrats website: http://www.yda.org. Thanks much–
  –Rob

  
  

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• Scott (admin) - November 3, 2005 at 12:23 am #

• Yes: I’ll definitely be posting them up here. Stay tuned.

  
  

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• Alex Bendig - November 3, 2005 at 12:48 am #

• Excellent! Looking forward to it.

  
  

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• Matt Lacey - November 3, 2005 at 2:31 am #

• Please have a go at our corporate site (www.city-link.co.uk). We inherited it a few years ago but our IT director won’t let us fix the numerous problems with it. Maybe, if we had your comments to back up the numerous problems we’ve identified, we may be able to get permission to change it. This would remove the numerous daily problems we have with supporting the beast.

  
  

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• Mireya Picar - November 3, 2005 at 10:42 am #

• I would appreciate your comments on this site:
  http://escape.topuertorico.com/
  Thanks!

  
  

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• Marilyn Langfeld - November 5, 2005 at 3:29 pm #

• I’ve been out of town for a week, so missed the deadline, but here goes anyway. We’ve just finished the redesign for NAIFA ( http://www.naifa.org ), a large (over 800 pages) association site. The client chose a “kitchen sink” approach to the home page, but since they are a national association with many thousands of repeat viewers, we felt that would work. I’d be very interested to hear your comments.

  
  

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