Slideshare has a slideshow from edanzico, posted 2 months ago that showcases user testing for the wordpress 2.5 admin panel, as well as the process and parameters for prototyping a new admin panel.
I love Firefox, and it’s mostly because of the plugins. Firefox is fast becoming my only tool for the web as it covers so many bases with Fire FTP, CSS and html editors, debugging tools, developer and designer plugins, administration tools, local program controls and social networking monitors to name but a few. A picture is better than words for this - and it only took about a minute to install at a svelt 400 od kilobites.
With the release of Google Chrome, and the associated articles predicting Microsofts downfall, there’s a lot of talk circulating about the future of the web and the new browser wars. Here’s a tool called Ubiquity that provides a nice if not rudimentary take on interface and functionality. I could see this - with a better interface a more user friendly process integration - being a major player in the future of the browser-sphere.
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