Sakib Mahmud Aka Visionary Geek

Most recently I’m looking for something web usability and got great tips which is shared by Regnard at webstandards. Just Three Ways To Improve Web Usability. Still, I’m looking for new something, if you have — share in comments.

Web designers and developers can do three simple steps to improve their working usability skills:

1. Know Your Users – This step puts almost everything into context. By using any available method to elicit feedback from the target users, you can have a better what they really need to do effectively on the website.
2. Design For the Users - Upon having a better idea what the users need,  the next step is to make it more easy for them to complete their tasks. Let’s take an online store for example: Place critical links in easier to access areas and make prioritized buttons like checkout or emptying the cart more conspicuous.
3. Test! – A wise man said that simple testing beats zero testing any day, so try to test your design. It doesn’t have to be an elaborate lab set-up, but having an open mind get weird and unexpected from a user helps.

Most recently, I brought a domain for short url generating service. I’m not going to use any more tinyurl‘s service but I’m trying to get ride of from ff.im. It’s sometimes tough and looks massive to share such a long title plus links to share on limited character based twitter service or somewhere else. Such as, Speeding Up In A Slowdown: If You Focus On The User, Everything Else Will Follow & http://isakib.com/speeding-up-in-a-slowdown-if-you-focus-on-the-user-everything-else-will-follow = 239 characters. How to share on twitter? We have text zipping service but it’s not better solutions.

But, I’m looking for better solutions and looking for Open Source based service, whatever php or mysql based or free service and finally A Short URL Plugin by Ozh give me a great solutions at yourls.org and that will merge two website and will make a bridge in between of three service, respectively WordPress, Hosted Short Urls and Twitter.

Before to moving more forward, you might like to know something exciting things…

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Today I received a mail from Adsense Team. I found, they kicking of a five-week educational series Speeding Up in a Slowdown — the purpose of that series to help you online to grow your business more effectively. By using Google Adsense and Google Analytics both of this service combination and how you will track your sites statistics, user friendly, visitors, increasing the potential revenue, advertisement and the right path of advertisement and so on tips and tricks and as well, world famous founder and official Google’s employees going to join and to share up their web experiences and key of success in this Kick-Ass Speeding Up Adsense Series. Also, Google’s Official Analytics Evangelist, Google’s User Experience Researchers sharing their experiences and making the whole matters so transparent thus you can kicking your business properly to grow and take right steps in right time.

“We’re kicking off a five-week educational series about speeding up your business in a slowdown. We’ll be revisiting the basics of online publishing to help you grow your business, and we’ll share tips about using AdSense and other Google products that you can apply to your business now. In the coming Thursdays, you can look forward to tips for making your site more user-friendly, bringing in more visitors, increasing your revenue potential, and attracting more advertiser budget. Along the way, we invite you to share your own suggestions for growing your business by leaving comments at the end of each post. You can also follow the campaign at www.google.com/ads/speedingup.” says by Talia Brodecki, Adsense Product Marketing.

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I wish you have seen tons of websites — offering to complete free survey form and some affiliates paying money to complete survey such as Awsurveys*. I’m using feed demon rss reader, after 15 days later — they offering me to give my opinions about the products by fulfilling their survey forms.

What things actually a company do, when you’re joining and share your opinions by survey? They normally trying to analyze what things actually the customer looking, which features each and every customer likes so much, what types of new features a customer expecting and on average how many users asking for same things, usability percent of any old or new features and tons of things. It’s directly helping a company to survey better service in features based on survey.

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