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Practical tips for Web and mobile usability tests

Jan04
by on January 4, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. To learn how to conduct 20 different types of usability tests, check out The Guide to Usability Testing. While most usability testing methods described in The Guide to Usability Testing apply to Web and mobile, we want to describe some of the nuances specific to each medium. Actually, most usability testing methods can be run any product from cloud payment systems to next-generation gaming consoles. In this piece,…

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Xiaomi announces the $112 Redmi 2 smartphone, a tweaked version of the popular Redmi 1S

Jan04
by on January 4, 2015 at 10:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Gadgets, Mobile, Product Launches

As had been recently anticipated, Xiaomi has today released details of a new version of its popular low-cost Redmi smartphone – appropriately named the Redmi 2. The new model is very similar to the previous 1S variety, except that it features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 Quadcore 64-bit 1.2 GHz processor and support for LTE, the front-facing camera has been boosted from 1.4 MP to 2 MP, and the battery has seen a slight boost from 2,000 mAh to 2,200 mAh. It will run Xiaomi’s MIUI 6 version of Android. Xiaomi, which yesterday announced sales of 61.1 million phones in 2014, has only…

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Smithsonian galleries release massive Asian art collection online for non-commercial use

Jan03
by on January 3, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution’s national museums of Asian art in the US, have released their entire collections online. All art works are now available to anyone and everyone for both viewing and download for the foreseeable future. Under the rubric of the Open F|S program, not only will the public get to view some 40,000 artworks — most of which have never before been seen — but more than 90 percent of the images posted online will be high-resolution and without copyright restrictions for non-commercial use. While the Freer and Sackler Galleries are the Smithsonian’s signature museums of…

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