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Thank you to all of you who supported our corporate team in this year’s Ride for Heart! What a great ride and a fantastic event this year. Despite a bit of rain it was a glorious day to be out riding. We had a few setbacks: Simon didn’t make it onto the highway before getting a flat, and Shannah had to rush to get her helmet on and out the gate before the corporate cut-off — but what’s an even

The Company At Usability Matters, we are passionate about user experience, and create strategic solutions for our clients using UX tools and best practices. We use design research to validate and enrich our designs, resulting in the best possible product for our clients. After 11 years in business, we have a stellar reputation in Toronto and beyond. We offer a dynamic and supportive working environment. We believe in

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Usability Matters is so proud to announce that we are Silver Level sponsors of Girls Learning Code

Malcolm Gladwell says ‘blink’ is about “[w]hen you meet someone for the first time… your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions.” BlinkedIn is what happens when you see someone’s LinkedIn pic for the first time and your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions…  

Its that time of year again! World Usability Day is coming up in a few weeks (November 10, 2011), and to celebrate, many different groups around the world are preparing various events, contests, and information sessions. What is World Usability Day you ask? According to the organization http://www.worldusabilityday.org/: World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ As

Personal security questions on websites have been de rigueur for quite a while now. You know what I’m talking about. You answer some personal questions (à la “What was the name of your best friend’s aunt’s dog in kindergarten?”) on sign-up. Later on, if you forget your password to that website, you can reset your password by answering those questions. Let’s stop and think about tha

We’ve never really been all-out gadget geeks here at UM but here I am smitten by the possibilities of the iPad. All predictions suggest this will be the year of the slate computer with a number of devices already announced and no doubt more in the works. The iPad is of course the one getting most of the attention but the HP slate and a few other demo’d at CES also have lots of people talking. Great side-b

We are currently bolstering our roster of freelance Information Architects and User Experience specialists. If you are a freelance IA, UX Designer or Usability Specialist and would like to work on engaging projects with a dynamic and experienced team, we’d like to hear from you! We are interested in speaking to individuals with experience in one or more of the following: Requirements gathering and strategic pla

Is there an ‘Accessibility for Dummies’ document you could share with me? As usability experts, we are occasionally asked about accessibility. Sometimes, we’re asked to help define and identify what accessibility means, and how it relates to a particular web site. This is tricky, because the degree and the kinds of accessibility that are appropriate for one site’s audience might be overkill or useless for

Every week I collect a bunch of recommended reads in my browser tabs, hoping for a few spare minutes to skim through them. This week, one such article was Luke Wroblewski‘s blog entry, The Apple Store’s Checkout Form Redesign. I really enjoy how straight-forward Luke is with his analysis in this article (and everything he writes, his book being no exception). He includes fantastic examples from Apple̵