Organisation: E-consultancy, Price: Free to subscribers
Description: Usability and Accessibility are rightly perceived as fundamental building blocks by savvy internet marketers, keen to improve user experience for site visitors while keeping the likes of the RNIB happy. This guide is primarily aimed at buyers of usability and accessibility services, but also contains market research, trends and issues, so will be helpful to strategists and other suppliers working in this area. The market continues to grow at a significant pace, with usability in demand among first-time buyers and seasoned pros. Meanwhile, many companies are still playing 'catch-up' with regards to accessibility, which has proven business benefits and may become invaluable as a search marketing tool going forward. If you read last year's guide to usability and accessibility solutio.....

Organisation: E-consultancy, Price: Free access for all
Description: Roundtable notes from last week's insightful event on user experience and usability. A whopping 8 pages long and free to everybody... Subjects covered: 1. User experience and wider business objectives 2. User experience measurement and metrics 3. Skills & processes to support user experience optimisation activities 4. The multi-channel user experience 5. User experience trends E-consultancy roundtables are attended by senior E-consultancy personnel, along with corporate subscribers, agencies and technology vendors. Attendees included Lloyds of London, O2, PwC, Royal Mail, CIO and Total Jobs, while experts from Amberlight, Bunnyfoot, Box UK and Foviance contributed the usual sharp thoughts......

Organisation: E-consultancy, Price: Free
Description: On the 3rd November this year (2005) the Usability Professionals’ Association organised a series of events around the world to champion the understanding and adoption of usability. The UPA asked E-consultancy to chair and host a roundtable featuring the leading experts, academics and practitioners in the fields of usability and accessibility in the UK. Download the free 6 page briefing that summarises the discussion points from the roundtable and includes details on attendees and useful resources to find out more. Content headings are: 1. “The State of Play” – what progress has the industry made? 2. Usability in worldwide markets 3. Research and design for specific audiences 4. How to embed user-centred design 5. Opportunities, challenges and threats 6. Useful links.....

Organisation: E-consultancy, Price: £99 to non-subscribers, free for subscribers
Description: Site Search is becoming an increasingly important differentiator for organisations who want to offer the best possible user experience. The focus of this 90-page guide is the UK Site Search market, including coverage of market trends as well as profiles of the leading vendors. The vendors offer technology and tools which allow users to seek out and analyse information effectively both on customer-facing websites and company intranets. It covers vendors who might more commonly be known as eTail/e-commerce search specialists or Enterprise Search players. Trends within this market include: - Greater client-side awareness about the commercial benefits of best-of-breed site search, both for revenue and brand-building objectives. - Increased focus on user experience, incl.....

Organisation: E-consultancy, Price: Free to registered users
Description: Notes from a recent roundtable on New Technologies, where we discussed opportunties for marketers to make use of the likes of RSS, AJAX, Pay-per-Call and Demographic Targeting. You need to register (for free, takes 30 seconds) to access this free report. To attend future roundtables you need to be talking to Peter Abraham (peter@e-consultancy.com)......

Areas of Expertise: Project management, IT consultancy.....
Clients: Lloyd's of London, London Stock Exchange, Panasonic

Areas of Expertise: User-centred design, Usability testing and research, Accessibility auditing and testing, User needs research, HCI Focus Groups, Consultancy on how to integrate human factors within digital interfaces, Training on how to integrate human factors .....
Clients: Nationwide Building Society, DTI, COI, Abbey

Areas of Expertise: Full user centred design (UCD) processes, leading edge web application development, usability testing, eye-tracking, e-commerce best practice wireframing, interaction design and technical delivery, checkout best practice consultancy and improvements,.....
Clients: The Co-op Group, Littlewoods Shop Direct Group, Nationwide, RFU (Rugby Football Union)

Description: Many website owners see usability as one of the key value generators for 2008 as the cost of acquiring traffic continues to grow. This seminar aims to give a solid background on what is a wide and .....

Description: Many website owners see usability as one of the key value generators for 2008 as the cost of acquiring traffic continues to grow. This seminar aims to give a solid background on what is a wide and .....

Description: Many website owners see usability as one of the key value generators for 2008 as the cost of acquiring traffic continues to grow. This seminar aims to give a solid background on what is a wide and .....

Description: Many website owners see usability as one of the key value generators for 2008 as the cost of acquiring traffic continues to grow. This seminar aims to give a solid background on what is a wide and .....

Description: Many website owners see usability as one of the key value generators for 2008 as the cost of acquiring traffic continues to grow. This seminar aims to give a solid background on what is a wide and .....