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The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The ultimate list of 24 free eBooks on UX and interface design will help you be a UX rock-star. Study from gurus for free! Want to be a UX rock star like Nick Finck of Amazon Web Services, Dave Garr of UserTesting.com, Jan Jursa of the mighty @IATV or even Jacob Nielsen, the ultimate UX guru? Then you should study the UX subjects they and other smart UX practitioners know. But why pay for all that great UX and interface design information when you can get it for free? Yes, free! Many UX books, guides and research studies are now available free as eBooks. I’ve compiled the ULTIMATE list of free UX and Interface Design eBooks so that you have this handy list to help …

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The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

How to Look at Your Website the Way Google Does

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

When you spend months or years on a website, not to mention thousands of dollars, it’s hard to step back and look at it objectively. Can you look at it through the eyes of your users? Can you look at it the way Google does? If you can look at your website the way Google does, you’ll probably discover areas in which your website needs work. So in that spirit, I’m going to teach you how you can see your website from Google’s perspective, and how you can then target the areas that need improvement. First, Google finds your website In order to see your website, Google needs to find it. When you create a website, Google will discover it eventually.

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How to Look at Your Website the Way Google Does

Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available – Posted by Sharon Solomon on Tue, April 29, 2014 @ 04:43 PM

Checkmarx has now released an update that scans your application source code for the Heartbleed-vulnerable library code. The Heartbleed vulnerability had affected almost half a million secure web servers, certified by trusted authorities, by the time it was exposed. The bad news is that the problem still exists. More than 2% of the Alexa world top 1,000,000 websites are still susceptible to attack.

All You Wanted to Know About the Heartbleed Vulnerability

Heartbleed is a bug in the basic implementation of open-source OpenSSL Checkmarx CTO Maty Siman told reporters after the bug was exposed. Many security problems, like Heartbleed, can be traced to the original code written by …

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Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available

Evernote + Feedly is Now on Mobile

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Feedly users love Evernote because it helps you collect the articles that matter to you. It has been one of our most used feedly Pro integrations since it launched, and today you’re going to love using feedly and Evernote together even more. We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched an update to Evernote on feedly that addresses some of your most asked for features. Evernote is now available on mobile We’re excited that starting today, feedly apps on iOS and Android now include full Evernote integration. It’s something you’ve been asking for, and we heard you. You can now save articles directly to your Evernote notebooks from your feedly mobile app. Automatically clip full article content Along with mobile support, …

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Evernote + feedly is now on mobile

Why Users Aren’t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by anthony on 04/29/14 at 10:19 am

A website study found that out of 3 million home page visits only about 1% clicked a carousel slide. How could a large, graphical element on the home page get such few clicks? The reason most carousels do poorly might surprise you. Most carousels have multiple slides that rotate when users click the navigation arrow. The first slide always gets the most clicks. But the click-through rate for every slide after that will suffer a steep drop. The problem with the low click-through rate is not the carousel pattern itself, but the carousel navigation. The navigation arrows on a carousel don’t give users an incentive to click. It fails because an arrow affordance doesn’t describe the information users get …

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Why Users Arenâ€™t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel