Demo Girl (http://demogirl.com/) has put together a great screencast on website/application user friendliness. I’m currently working on a fairly large web application and usability is one of the key areas that so frequently suffers in web applications - both in part to inexperienced/lazy developers and/or “overly creative” designers.

Quote:

“I sign up and navigate through a lot of different Websites and services every single day so I can create screencasts to help my readers decide if they want to try them out or not. In doing this, I notice every little detail from arriving to the site, to locating my account settings, to signing out. It’s my job to know where the help pages are, how to change a password, and how to generally navigate through whatever site I’m currently creating a screencast for. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ditched a service that I actually thought was kind of cool, but navigation was so horrible that I didn’t want to share it with you here - And that’s the topic of the screencast today. “

It’s only a few minutes long and well worth taking a look at if you have any influence over the design and development of web applications: if you care about your users experience anyway!

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