Challis Hodge’s UXblog

Just came across this over at gongblog.

Trixie Tracker is a full-featured online tool that allows new parents to keep detailed records and create visually striking charts for Sleep, Diapers, Bottles, Solids, Nursing, Pumping and Medicine. You’ll love the charting on diaper leaks, solid food intake, and the especially useful medicine tracker. Take a look at the breast milk inventory graphic:

Trixie Tracker was invented by a stay-at-home dad to help take better care of his new daughter. He knew there was a daily schedule and wanted to understand it, but it was too difficult to keep track of all the little baby care details.

Great tool. Check it out.

Dan Brown pointed us to Dashboard Spy, a nice resource for folks designing and developing Executive Dashboards and various business Intelligence tools. Quite a collection of screen shots, commentary and links!

I haven’t reviewed it and I don’t know what Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) usability guidelines were used or how they were derived. But here it is, “LIFT-Nielsen Norman Group Edition,” a new software product that allows developers to check pages for compliance with usability guidelines as they code. It works with Macromedia Dreamweaver (4.0 or MX) on both Windows and Macintosh. LIFT NN/g checks to ensure that websites are compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium’s accessibility guidelines and Section 508 guidelines. It’s Jakob Nielsen in a box!

Macromedia plans to announce a partnership Monday with Jakob Nielsen, a leading Web design guru and one of the most prominent critics of the company’s Flash software for Web animation.

“Nielsen and his consulting firm, Nielsen Norman Group, will work with Macromedia to develop guidelines for creating practical, easy-to-use Web applications with the new version of Flash, Nielsen and Macromedia executives plan to announce at Nielsen’s User Experience conference in San Francisco.”

At one point Nielsen’s position on use of graphics on the Web was 100% Bad! I wonder what would have happened if he partnered with the W3C early on to advise on how to eliminate the use of graphics on the Internet/Web.

A nice collection assembled by a University of Maryland HCI class. Even if you’re *not* a software engineer, you’ll probably find some useful resources at this site. Check it out here.