General Usability Documents

15-Sep-2008

Allocating Your Time: Career Advancement vs. Company Profit
This is the second article of the four article series from Dr Jakob Nielsen. The article discusses how to allocate user experience resources between various projects in a way that is most profitable for both the company and the career of the UE expert. In the article four different approaches are presented with their pros and cons.
Document --- Article, Web Page --- Home Page; Development Process, Quality, Usability; HTML (.htm/.html); English (en)

02-Apr-2008

S60 Platform: Development and Quality Assurance Process Guideline
Read this updated document to get an overview of the S60 application development process from pre-study to maintenance phase and to see how quality aspects can be integrated into the different phases of the development process. The information provided in the document can be used as a basis for creating a process or to complement and fine-tune an existing process. Most of the content in this document is considered generic and applicable to other than S60 applications as well.
Document; Development Process, Quality, S60, Symbian C++, Usability; English (en)

09-Jul-2007

Mobile Browsing: Evaluating and Improving an Existing Site
This article continues the series on the Full Nokia Web Browser, and takes a look at several case examples of Web design that are not mobile-friendly. The problems illustrated are critical issues for mobile users; and this article attempts to help Web managers with existing sites identify changes that can be made to improve the user experience for those using a mobile device.
Document --- Article; Usability, Web Technology ... Nokia Web Browser; Adobe PDF (.pdf); English (en)

29-May-2007

Nokia Web Browser Design Guide
This article introduces the Nokia Web Browser. It has a fundamental design philosophy — to deliver a full, desktop-like, Web experience with a mobile browser, without the need for creating and maintaining separate Web sites for desktop units and mobile devices.The document includes guidelines and recommendations, as well as best practices, and is supplemented with simple, practical design and code examples that can be used as templates. The document is available in PDF and html format.
Document; Quality, Usability, Web Technology ... Nokia Web Browser; English (en)

31-Aug-2004

Designing MIDP Applications For Optimization
This document provides information on how to design and implement MIDlets that are easy to optimize for different devices having different features.
Document; Java ... MIDP, Optimization, Quality, S60, Series 40, Series 80, Usability; Adobe PDF (.pdf); English (en)