Warmest Greetings,

:: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 ::

I've spent some time playing with the samples of really cool, fun, innovative forms at Quask.com. They offer free trials and reasonably priced forms for feedback, polls, surveys, brochures, and marketing. But, what's such a pleasure is that they're fun to use! From a usability perspective this is critical because often people are more inclined to fill out a form or rate something if the tool to do it is fun to use. Go ahead and visit their site and play with their demos. For getting user feedback, this company offers some great ideas for how to do it.

When you need ideas for questions to ask your website visitors, I can help with that. See Usability Testing Center

One of my most favorite people in the world, Bill Slawski, points out in his blog, Bragadocchio that some Sesame Street songs have been released. I LOVED this show because of the skits performed by famous musicians, actors and comedians. Check out Musicians have learned that cartoons are cool.

"The venerable PBS show has led the airwaves in using well-known artists to promote the show's educational or cultural messages, often with cleverly re-written lyrics adjusted to appeal particularly to kids. R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People," for example, became "Furry Happy Monsters" in one of the show's more memorable parodies."

Ah, R.E.M. I was fan back when they toured colleges and universities, before they hit the planet full force. I used to walk to work wearing a walkman cassette player playing "Radio Free Europe" over and over and over....I was obsessed.

Usability article find:

Usability, Accessibility, and Profitability in Information Week covers a lot of ground, including pet peeves. It's a good read if you need reminders about how to make improvements to your own sites.

Here's other great links that I can't take credit for finding. Again, it was my friend Bill who nabbed this one. It's Link Law by Tim Berners-Lee and Link Myths.

"I received a mail message asking for "permission" to link to our site. I refused as I insisted that permission was not needed. There is no reason to have to ask before making a link to another site but by the same token, you are responsible for what you say about other people, and their sites, etc., on the web as anywhere."

For the record, I love everybody and their links.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 10/14/2003 12:13:18 PM

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