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1999 Newsletters

Issues	Topics Covered
December, 1999	Web Design Guidelines – What research-based guidelines are available for designing websites?
November, 1999	Optimum Time of Day for Optimum Performance – How can we ensure that older users perform as well as younger users in systems? Do younger and older users perform better at different times of the day?
October, 1999	User Interface Displays – What direction are we going with user interface displays? Predictions for the future.
September,1999	Multimedia and Working Memory Limitations – Working memory capacity can be "increased" by using two senses rather than one. Using Multimedia in Instruction – Some guidlelines.
August, 1999	Web Site Identity – The logo tells where you are
July, 1999	e-Commerce and Screen Design – Usability more important than "fancy store fronts". e-Commerce Pricing – Buyers prefer sales to "everyday low prices".
June, 1999	Handedness and Other Preferences – Designing to ensure that critical tasks are performed by the user's preferred hand – not as obvious as one might think.
May, 1999	Heuristic Evaluations – Is there a useful set of usability heuristics currently available to practitioners? There is, but unfortunately the best set is not the one most widely used.
April, 1999	Paging vs. Scrolling – No difference in speed, but paging results in better comprehension and memory of information. Paging vs. Scrolling – Paging works better for older users.
March, 1999	Breadth vs. Depth – Broader structures enable faster performance. Breadth vs. Depth – 2 is the magic number.
February, 1999	Screen Fonts – Study shows that fonts designed for screen viewing give no reliable performance differences in reading speed. Speed Reading – Successively flashing individual words on screen improves reading performance.
January, 1999	Reading Speed and Comprehension – Then and Now – Paper vs. computer monitors – high resolution monitors change the results.