Recently in Usability Category

I'm back from Internet Librarian, and it's time for catch-up. I still have several sessions to tell you about. The conference was excellent...now I just need to get the CD so I can listen to all the stuff I missed! Monterey was much warmer this year than usual and the rain threatened by weather.com last week certainly never materialized. My raincoat and all those warm jackets I brought along just took up space.

Back to the program. Usability seems to be somewhat of a moving target. Are we gradually learning more about how people use the web, or are people using the web differently as they become more experienced? I don't know the answer to that one, but Darlene Fichter gave us a great update on the current thinking on usability.

Camtasia is a handy little piece of software. I use it mainly to record training sessions, though it can be handy for presentations and for creating web tutorials as well. Because Camtasia records anything happening on a computer screen, it is also a logical choice for recording usability tests. Techsmith must have realized that's how Camtasia was being used, because they've produced another product specifically for that purpose call Morae.