The UUX Community Newsletter
Usability Interface

Usability Interface is the quarterly publication of the Usability and User Experience Community. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide technical communicators with up-to-date and in-depth information on how they can apply usability design and testing techniques to their products.

February 2009

Webinar Offered by UUX
By Sherri Martin-Hutchins, Editor
Ahhhh, the perks of belonging to the UUX SIG

Preparing for the STC Summit
By David Dick, Assistant UUX Manager
Here comes the STC Summit and what UUX is doing at the conference

Book Review of Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability.
By Sherri Martin-Hutchins, Editor
The latest book from Carolyn Jarrett is out and here is a review by our own UUX Newsletter Editor.

Hot, Hot, Hot: Using Heat Maps to Improve Usability
By Rick Sapir, Chapter Webmaster for the Carolina Chapter of STC
Here's a new tool we can put into our testing toolboxes.

Luke Wroblewski on Best Practices for Content Page Design
By Patrick Lufkin, co-manager of the 2008-2009 Northern California Technical Communication Competition
What Luke Wroblewski shared at the Berkeley STC chapter meeting last October.

Columns and SIG News

Editorial
By Sherri Martin-Hutchins, Editor
Behind the Scenes at Usability Interface

Community News
By Mary Deaton, UUX Manager