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UX Killed Usability
UX Killed Usability
Usability is dead (or at best on life-support and not conscious), and I'm sorry to be the one that has to tell you this, but it's been mortally wounded by UX (aka User Experience). How do I know? Well, you see, I'm a big fan of usability. Consider my blog, Useful Usability, which has the name of usability right in it. I eat, think and sleep usability, which is why I'm so sad that UX has killed it.
Yes, I'm a big fan of usability, but I can assure you it has been killed (or at best is now on life support and comatose). And I have proof, which I'll sadly but scientifically share with you in a moment. But for those of you who can't wait and want to know the executive summary, here it is:
"Usability as a term is pretty much dead and has been replaced (not very well) by UX, meaning user experience."
Now like I said, I'm sorry to be the bearer of this bad news, but if you are in the usability profession I suspect you already have an inkling of this fact.
The fact is usability will most likely be has been consumed and overwhelmed by the new catch-phrase and relatively new role of UX. The sad part however is that where most people knew what usability was (how easy things are to use, measured and tested via a scientific method), no two people exactly agree on what UX is.
Usability definition:
According to WikiPedia, the definition of usability is…
"Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects (such as a cookbook, a document or online help) and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer.
Usability includes methods of measuring usability, such as Needs analysis and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance. In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability studies the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site (web usability) is designed. Usability differs from user satisfaction insofar as the former also embraces usefulness (see Computer user satisfaction)."
Whew! That is a lot to read, much less to say. Can you see yourself saying that to your mom or dad if they were to ask you what usability is? I can't. So, as you can tell, I'm actually not a big fan of this definition, because it's not very user-friendly (and thus not usable) in my opinion.
"Usability is how easy or difficult something is to use. Usability can be measured through a scientific process focused on evaluating user critical tasks and the ability, or lack thereof, of those tasks to be completed by users . Usability includes how efficient something is, how easy it is to learn, and the ability of the item to satisfy the user."
So like I said, usability is pretty easy to understand, once you have a usable definition.
Proof that UX killed Usability
You may ask how I know usability is dead, or at best on life-support and not conscious, what's my proof? I'll show you. Just like a lawyer.
Well, a lawyer that we actually like.
I'm thinking Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. He was a lawyer everyone liked. So picture me as Perry Mason and let us now examine the evidence that proves UX killed Usability.
Google Insights, Interest over Time, UX vs. Usability
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you the first piece of evidence that UX killed usability. Interest in UX has beaten interest in usability and is now more than double the usability interest.
The Google Insights tool provides a useful comparison of interest in subjects over time. The numbers on the graph above reflect the index of how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over that time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.
As the above graph demonstrates, usability was at about 80% interest in 2004, but has declined ever since and is now about 20% interest. UX meanwhile was at about 75% interest, and is now at roughly 55%. Both fell, but usability fell much more than UX.
Simply put, UX interest is beating out usability interest and has been doing so since 2006. And if Google's forecasts are accurate we can assume usability interest will continue to fall to less than 20% interest, while UX will maintain at about 50-55% interest.
User Experience Interest Growing
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I now present to you the second piece of incriminating evidence that UX killed usability. As demonstrated by the Google Insights information, interest in user experience continues to climb, while as we saw earlier interest in usability continues to fall.
I direct, ladies and gentlemen, your attention to this graph above, which clearly proves that interest in user experience has almost doubled from 2004 to 2012. Interest in 2004 was roughly 50%, but today has climbed to about 95%. This increase is in stark contrast to usability which is currently hovering around 20%.
Clearly user experience interest is growing at the expense of usability interest.
Google Indexed Pages, UX vs. Usability
And now ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would like to show you the next piece of evidence in the case of UX against usability, which is the number of pages Google has indexed, or attributed, to a certain term. UX has yet again beaten usability, in this case a severe beating, by having over double the number of pages indexed.
According to Google, there are about 57,300,000 pages that have something to do with the term 'usability.' That's not bad. However, that doesn't hold a candle to UX.
According to Google, there are over 130,000,000 pages that pertain to UX. That's more than double the usability total. And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, just in case you were thinking there are other uses of the term UX that may be inflating these numbers, I present to you this corroborating piece of evidence. The term 'user experience' has far more number of pages indexed than either UX or usability.
There are over 236,000,000 pages that are indexed by Google for the term 'user experience.' Compared to the 57,300,000 pages that index for usability, clearly user experience has far more content, by a factor of almost four to one. This proves that user experience, and UX, are overwhelming usability.
Monster job postings, UX vs. Usability
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I now turn your attention to the next piece of evidence that UX has killed usability, the number of jobs posted that pertain to usability vs UX. Note the number of jobs that appear when a search for usability is conducted on Monster as demonstrated below. You'll clearly see ladies and gentlemen that there are 19 jobs for the term usability.
But now ladies and gentlemen I call attention to the following result for the term UX. When you type in UX into Monster you see a whopping 1,000+ jobs appear in the results. This completely overwhelms usability and its feeble 19 jobs. And should you assume that these may be jobs that only have a slight bearing on the terms of UX I would like you to note that in both searches the search term (usability or UX) is required to be in the title, as demonstrated by the checked box for the Title selection.
Austin Chapter of the UPA Meetings
Finally, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, witness the relatively small interest in usability at the local level. As president of the Austin Chapter of the UPA I've been struggling for two years now on trying to expand the interest and activity in usability and user-centered design in the Austin, Texas community.
I love doing this, as I feel my volunteering with the UPA is my way to give back to the community and in some small way help our world to be a better place to live. But I will confide with you and tell you it has been a struggle to grow membership. At best, our meetings average about 20 people (as demonstrated below). Our FaceBook page has 102 Friends and we have 56 Followers on Twitter. Not too bad.
However, as shown below and just as a reference point the recent Austin IxDA meeting had almost 100 people in attendance (not counting me although I was there). In addition, they have 296 Followers on Twitter, which is pretty good. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the Austin IxDA and a happy member. I just bring this up to point out the size discrepancies between a group focused on interaction design and UX, and a group focused on usability.
In addition, I asked several members at the recent Austin IxDA meeting as well as other places such as SXSW about their feelings for the local UPA chapter. Here's what they said in a paraphrased form…
"Yeah, I like the Austin UPA and all, but usability is just focused on research, and that's just a small part of everything I have to do as a UX practitioner."
This now makes sense to me, especially when you look at the job posting descriptions for "UX Designers" or related terms.
Note that most of the time the job posting is a mixture of part IA, part usability researcher, part designer, and part coder. No wonder usability is now only a minor part of the UX world!
Conclusion: UX killed Usability
So, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, clearly the evidence is overwhelming, UX has killed usability. True, usability is not completely dead, it lies in a slowly decaying world of interest and roles, now relegated to a minor part of someone's very large and growing list of responsibilities as a UX designer. Whether the term usability will continue to survive in this world is a matter of conjecture.
However, I suspect that if you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, dust off your usability interest, evaluate the true meaning of usability, which is the extent to which things can be made to work better, and work on educating the world and your part in it about the importance of usability, it won't truly die.
It's up to you. Only you can determine if UX will be allowed to kill usability, or if you will use usability and enable it to continue to play a role in the new world of UX and user experience.
So, do you agree that UX killed usability? Are you ready to convict? And if you see usability having less significance, what do you propose, if anything, to do about it?
UX is bigger than usability, so it does not replace it – it includes it.
Imo it's simple;
User Experience = functionality + usability + bling
I don't know about UX killing Usability. I am actually happy that we are getting a seat at the table during ideation — rather than being the "usability" people who come in and test it to see if people can use it before we ship — and then not fix anything….
That being said, I have been beating this drum — Usability, IxD, and User Research are all components of what we generically refer to as "UX" in my job. I like to explain that we "solve user problems", "understand user goals and the way then work", and "validate that the interface is easy to use or at least easy to learn to use".
The real reason that the term "UX" has gained (stolen?) mind share is because it has an X in it. Everyone knows that the letter X makes things cooler, more mysterious, and more technical-sounding. In fact, the letter X is evocative of techno-wizardry in general. As a member of Generation X, I feel I have a kindred spirit in UX.
But seriously, "User Experience" SOUNDS like a more expansive term and suggests a broader scope of responsibility. You clearly point this out in the job postings. In my opinion, UX is such a broad term, it kinda means everything and nothing at the same time. My suspicion is that a lot of the term's popularity comes from practitioners, especially green freelancers. I've been in several meetings with "UX experts" recently who've thrown the term around an awful lot. Now, I'm used to artificially inflated language being used like this in meetings…that's something I can deal with. However, this term is usually delivered with a smug "I know more than you do" look. It's all I can do to NOT reach across the table and slap said expert. I haven't slapped anyone yet, but one of these days…
Usability is something that can be objectively measured. In mission-critical environments (say, an airliner flight deck), I hope that usability studies have been performed on the instruments and flight controls. In non-mission critical environments (say, the passenger seating area on the same airliner), user experience studies have their place in cabin decorating aesthetics, but I'd argue that usability studies count for just as much here.
In my mind, comparing usability and user experience is like comparing the questions "what does it do?" to "how does it make you feel?" They're both valid questions, but they have different specificity. I think the term "UX" has its place, but not as a title for an individual…perhaps it would make a great title for a group or department?
Keep fighting the good fight, Craig. Who knows, maybe you still have a chance to convict UX. With all those pages and job postings though, I think UX is gonna tie you up in appeals…
Thanks for your comments Paul, Julie and Robert!
I never thought of the "X" Factor Paul, (wait, there's a U.S. TV show by that name too!). There are a whole bunch of other hot "X" terms out there as well, including Customer Experience (CX) and more. Most of them are just as ill-defined as UX.
I agree with you Julie, it's a problem trying to define to non-UX folk what UX actually is. I like the "solve user problems" and the rest. However, if that's the definition of UX, isn't it also the exact same definition of usability (which is in theory just a component of UX?)
Robert, I agree with you, and I think most people do, that UX is bigger. Not sure what the "bling" is, and also isn't functionality directly linked to usability? How are the two separate?
Far more of a concern to me these days is what we are going to do to define, and call together our discipline from a professional standpoint. The old "Usability Professionals Association" (UPA) is still around, I've been a proud member for a long time. And, there's SIG Chi and the IXDA and the rest, but they don't focus strictly on testing and optimizing. However, my worry is that by linking the UPA with a term that clearly is being used less and less, they will become dinosaurs. Just like another association I used to belong to, which is now long gone: The Association For Multi Image (AMI) of which the only thing I can find is an old slide from their Gold Tour of 1982. Yikes! I'm dating myself! I hope the UPA doesn't go the way of the AMI.
I agree with Paul's comment, "I think the term 'UX' has its place, but not as a title for an individual…perhaps it would make a great title for a group or department?" I've been part of the "User Experience/UX" discipline since 2001, and even in 2001 we were the UX group. Whenever I've work in large companies, our group or department was either called the UX group or something very similar. But within that group we had specialists: interaction designers, ethnographers/user researchers, usability analysts/engineers, graphic/visual designers, information architects, even sometimes UI devs and prototypers.
But if you work at a small company or a company that is just beginning to find value in our discipline, it's highly likely that the "UX department" is actually "you." And yes, you probably have to do all of those things listed in Craig's job posting … and more.
Like most professions, there are generalists and there are specialists. The extent to which you get to be a specialist is very much dictated by the needs of the environment you're in.
UX is innocent. It did not kill usability, it asked usability to join UX and work together under the name "UX". Usability agreed and stopped being a sole proprietor and started working as part of UX.
Usability is as important as ever and it always will be, but it's only one aspect of UX.
OK, that's a vote for innocent. Thanks for your comment Jim,
But, and this is my pet peeve, how can "usability be as important as ever" if it is only one aspect of UX? Seems to me that the user experience someone has with an application or website is all about functionality, learnability and satisfaction. Which is oddly enough the description for usability. So what extra elements does UX add? And if it does, are they not subservient to usability? After all, if you can't use it, who cares about the rest of the user experience?
Riddle me that!
This discussion reminds me of all the talk about the future of information architecture. So many IAs were worried about the term as more people started calling themselves UX this or that. But information architecture is still just as important as it always was. It's just now very few IAs label themselves an IA. I was just at the IA Summit in New Orleans, which had it's biggest turnout ever, and I only met one or two people who had IA in their title. Everyone was a UXer. But every UXer there was interested in IA (as well as a wide range of other topics!).
In the end, it's just a label; the discipline and craft don't go away, unless it wasn't that essential to begin with.
If anything, usability is becoming more expected and noticed by users. I've seen their tolerance of bad usability go down a lot in this age of ipads, iphones, smartphones, and facebook. They may still use a "bad" product, but they notice and complain much more when the important stuff doesn't work. Look at the app store or Google market. Are you going to download a badly reviewed app? Probably not. Usability and usefulness are big parts of why an app gets a bad review. Companies are hiring VPs of UX now to insure great user experiences which results in better usability of their products.
Usability is important and will remain important. Our job titles may change and usability may be done by different people on the team, but it's definitely not going anywhere.
Jim Ross is correct. Usability is a part of UX, but UX is larger.
UX is not totally about a particular application or website. It's about how that application or website fits into a user's life and how that application or website fits into that user's interaction with an organization.
A terrible company can build a great app, but having one great usable app doesn't necessary create a great user experience. What if I paid my bill via that highly usable app and later logged into the company's website. I expect the website to know my bill was paid. If it does not, then I have a bad experience because I'm not sure if the company really got my payment. That could result in me calling, being on hold, and wasting my and the company's time. Not a good user experience.
In the multi-screen device world we live in, user experience often goes beyond one project or product. Usability is usually applied to each product separately. UX looks at the spaces between products that often are the areas that create bad user experiences.
Usability isn't the end goal. It's not enough. A usable but unsuccessful tool is still a failure.
Or in other words, usability is now mandatory, like spelling is for writers. Hemingway wasn't a speller, he was a writer. We should hold ourselves to the same standard.
I belong to the UX team, and my title is User Experience Analyst. I'm still trying to figure out what this means exactly – but its okay, so is my boss!
I like the Robert's definition "User Experience = functionality + usability + bling" where I get that Functionality is the stuff that it can do, that Usablity means that it is easy and intuitive (another can of worms) to use, and that Bling means that it has a great look and feel that augments the other two aspects rather than hindering them.
I also like this definition because of the ordering of the 3 factors. It is in this order that I see things being created (once the requirements etc have been defined).
I do however sympathise – being new to the greater UX community – with people proficient in Usability who might get passed over by the all-powerful, all-conquering X term. Especially as the X term might overpower the rest and leave the industry the weaker for it. While half in jest, I am a little concerned that the value and importance of Usability is reduced.
Thanks for your comments Eddie, Loren and Timothy.
I get the whole 'ux is more than usability' thing. However, my problem with that is nobody can accurately describe (in a consistent manner) exactly what that "more" is! Usability is a known quantity / definition, and by the way my opinion is people associate the definition of usability as being strictly function. I beg to disagree.
Here's the definition of usability out of WikiPedia:
"ISO defines usability as "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use." The word "usability" also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. Usability consultant Jakob Nielsen and computer science professor Ben Shneiderman have written (separately) about a framework of system acceptability, where usability is a part of "usefulness" and is composed of:[4]
* Learnability: How easy is it for users to accomplish basic tasks the first time they encounter the design?
* Efficiency: Once users have learned the design, how quickly can they perform tasks?
* Memorability: When users return to the design after a period of not using it, how easily can they re establish proficiency?
* Errors: How many errors do users make, how severe are these errors, and how easily can they recover from the errors?
* Satisfaction: How pleasant is it to use the design?"
So, if usability covers utilization, learnability and satisfaction, exactly what is the "more" that UX covers???
In my opinion, until UX is defined and agreed upon consistently for what it is, and what it isn't, it's just so much smoke and mirrors. A catchy phrase helpful for getting jobs, or projects.
There, I said it. Whew, I feel better.
That said, please ignore the fact that my title here at Apogee Results is "Vice President, Online Marketing & User Experience"
You were talking about the Kano model in one of your earlier posts, and at first I wondered if usability is seen as more of a basic attribute, where UX goes into the sexier "excitement" attribute side of things – thus all the hype and Google mentions etc. I think user experience is less definable…take Wikipedia's stab:
User experience
(UX) is the way a person feels about using a product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership, but it also includes a person's perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system. User experience is subjective in nature, because it is about an individual's feelings and thoughts about the system. User experience is dynamic, because it changes over time as the circumstances change. [end of definition]
It struck me that reading this definition that the methodology for measuring UX in ways would be closer to doing a focus group for a new ad campaign or car design. I then started considering usability of a subset of UX, which again, doesn't really contradict the Kano model idea.
So it was all wrapped up neatly in my mind, until I recalled a debate with an SE in my office about the iPhone/iPad. He was saying that people loved the iOS because of its usability; I was saying that it was the overall UX, and that usability experts had mixed views about the fundamental usability of the devices, and gave examples of the twenty-some odd uses of the main button. He thought I was a nut and a hard-head, which is probably also true.
But I think usability has value given a mission or need. I don't know of anything that is highly usable that wouldn't rate highly on the UX scale for people who wanted to do something already. When I get excited about something really usable and show it to people who wouldn't use it anyway, the reaction is usually "so what." No matter how usable a potato peeler is, someone who doesn't cook potatoes will never get excited about it.
But UX has a more advertising type quality to it, in that it gets people to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do normally, like use a computer for many iPad users, which makes the computing experience enjoyable for someone who could never maintain a general purpose computer.
Peter Morville has a good diagram and explanation of user experience in his User Experience Honeycomb – http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php.
The elements of this UX honeycomb are: useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, credible, and valuable. Although usability in this model is only 1/7th of UX, it's probably the most important element. Take away usability and a product will fail on all these other elements.
If you look at UX similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, usability is on the bottom of the pyramid. You have to satisfy the need for usability before you even start thinking about things like desirability.
So I agree that usability has faded from popularity as a term and UX is more popular. Many of us who used to use the term usability are now using the term UX, but we're still focusing on the same things.
So that's why I like the analogy that usability wasn't killed. It's very much alive, but it joined with these other elements and changed its name to UX.
The term was coined by Don Norman while he was Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at Apple. In his own words: "I invented the term because I thought human interface and usability were too narrow. I wanted to cover all aspects of the person's experience with the system including industrial design, graphics, the interface, the physical interaction, and the manual. Since then the term has spread widely, so much so that it is starting to lose it's meaning… user experience, human centered design, usability; all those things, even affordances. They just sort of entered the vocabulary and no longer have any special meaning. People use them often without having any idea why, what the word means, its origin, history, or what it's about."
Interesting and very relevant conversation for the profession which has been struggling to find a logical place within corporate functions and decision making process.
I think more than what WE think profession should be called as, it is important to see how "outside" world perceives it.
1. Usability was perceived/positioned closer to Engineering function, whereas User Experience pitches to CXOs. UX stands a better chance of being "noticed" and "listened to" with a change in stance and vocabulary.
2. Usability had an "academic" connotation and was often seen as "luxury" with time and budget constrains. User Experience is more inclusive of other business functions within the company.
3. Usability was often "optional" during SDLC. User Experience is something project/product/service must achieve to have a positive business impact.
4. Usability was measured using "non-business" metrics. User Experience is bundled into "Business" metrics.
5. Usability is struggling to revive itself in "Agile" world. Project roles are collapsing, timeline shrinking.
A usability focused design assists in creating an attractive user experience, and thus referral & retention, a key business objective in any firm.
But the experience of the user transcends usability, including things like branding and brand experience.
Nothing wrong with that
As long as usability definition includes "satisfaction", I don't see the point of the usability vs. UX debate:
Anyway… what does a UXer do that can't be considered as a usability technique?
Great post and comments.
I have always been an usability pragmatist and like many of those who have commented I do not agree that the 'birth' of the term UX has killed usability as a practice. In many ways I believe it has given it life by giving it visibility and bottom line meaning to those that are ultimately paying for the practice to develop and enhance, albeit under bigger UCD umbrella.
Reading through all the responses I believe one element has been missed in terms of how user experience extends from pure usability.
As discussed UX is evaluated both by emotion and logic. We also know our emotions are subjective reactions to a range of stimulants, far more than an easy to use interface and the pleasure that provides. In the real world our moods are affected by many other elements such as: colour, tones, use of language, imagery, music, humour, time, sharing, social interaction, environment, skill, education, beliefs, physicality, temperature, security, light etc etc.
Not all of the above can be factored into website design granted but the point is great design has personality and identity that people feel they can connect with on an emotional level and therefore as technology and HCI evolves we need to factor in much more than how easily something works but also how it makes me feel as an individual in my situation, with my preferences and my needs.
This is more than usability, this is about creating product that provides a fantastic 360 user experience in every respect.
Honestly I'm not convinced by your conclusions. I'll not bother to quibble with your misleading use of graphs and numbers, because there's a more fundamental point that's important to note.
I'm a neophyte to the area of UX, so I can give you my perspective as an outsider who has tried to get a feel for how things work. It seems to me that User Experience as a field is relatively nascent, and only recently has it begun to acquire structure and common definition. Building a list of primary texts to start learning was a challenge, I'll tell you!
What's also clear to me is that UX encompasses a number of seperate but related disciplines, and usability is simply one of them. As a field, "usability" is rather narrow considering what goes into the design and construction of a user-focused website. IA is important, as are various aspects of visual design and goal-driven influencing factors (neuromarketing, if you like).
Usability hasn't gone away. Its core tenets appear to still be at the heart of UX. Interaction design, user interface design, and the like are still there – they've just been supplemented by the other areas which build on that core.
It also seems that UX teams of the future are likely to have specialisms. Just as there are specialist Information Architects, there will be specialist Usability Engineers. Your job isn't going away, it's just being taken in under that larger umbrella. And lamenting the decline of usability as a catch all term doesn't seem productive – this is a brilliant opportunity to start defining by exclusion. When "usability" loses the cruft of past tangential associations with other areas, it will become more focused and defined, and that's good for both User Experience as a wider field and for Usability as a discipline.
But then again, I'm new at all this. 🙂
I honestly do not think that UX killed Usability. In fact, as most of the commenters here said, UX involves usability. For another reason to believe this, we just have to take a look at the famous UPA poster has this as its title: designing the user experience.
The fact that one term has more pages about it than the other is weak. UX has stronger meaning, broader. Usability is restricted to scientific methods (therefore, frightening to most out there). This is why IMHO we have more job offers in UX than we have in usability.
In essence, they're almost the same. We use several usability methods when designing experiences. And since usability is also about satisfaction (as both you and Jordison said, and as it's written in all usability definitions) , this case must be ended.
To conclude my remarks, UX has a marketing friendly name. Usability is scary (for those who does not know anything about it).
Thanks Craig, for bringing up your point in such an interesting and fun way. The way some "user experience practices" do their jobs, it definitely feels like UX killed usability. However, I don't think UX is really the culprit here.
To me, usability is more like the robot that does all our work, whereas UX is like a thinking, feeling, helpful friend. I think that the Human connection is what separates usability (how easily and efficiently you can get a job done) from user experience (how much fun you can have and how you feel while getting a job done).
Usability is but one component of a larger User Experience design strategy. As better UX folks than me have said, getting UX right requires making systems "Functional > Reliable > Usable > Delightful", in that order. My own experience in this fiels, as well as evidence I've seen bears that out in spades.
Thanks everyone for your comments. As I suspected, there is certainly a lot of interest in this topic.
I think that most UX practitioners, as demonstrated here, would say "usability is a part of UX." Although that is the thought, the reality is no two people can define exactly what "UX" is in the same manner. Some feel UX is about Brand attributes, some feel it incorporates all aspects of a persons interactions with a product or application. Others feel it's the holistic approach to design that transcends functionality.
Whatever your feelings about what UX is, without a clear definition of UX, saying "usability is part of UX" is like saying "I don't really know for a fact what UX is, but I know that whatever it is it includes usability."
This is why UX killed the term usability, because the vast majority of people feel usability is a piece, a tool, of something larger. What that "larger" is they can't all define the same.
By the way, several folks here and on Twitter have made comments that the Google numbers don't matter. I believe they fail to grasp my point that the term Usability is not being used nearly as much as UX or User Experience. Google's numbers exactly prove this point, as Google's numbers exactly express how many times someone searches for that term, or how many pages on the internet have content that uses that term.
Numbers my friends don't lie, and that's why I can say Usability is about to die.
Unless of course you have different numbers that can prove otherwise!
In my opinion usability refers to the object itself, and UX refers to the Product in general where, in addition to usability, integrates the element of utility.
Usefulness =? UX =? UFS
Numbers:The 8 Most popular Post you have, has the Usability word, and the last one… 😉
Great discussion!
"Usability" is seen as a cost, that requires more convinceing to stakeholders. Any Usability practitioner worth their salt has had to argue the ROI.
UX or "User-Experience" is seen as an investment, stakeholders like the word "experience", because they relate to it.
Hironic really.
Unfortunate as well, because the core usability science potentially could get lost…
At least the word "User" is there at the moment.
Interesting, what happened to the UI term, indicating a User Interface Designer for digital media…
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Funny enough I found your post through the following google search: "UX is dead"!
For a couple of days, I have this recurring question in my head: is UX dead? and is UX dead because of its excessive broadness (and vagueness)? UX attributes are so numerous and diverse that no one can really handle UX as a whole. At least not through processes perceived as reliable and trustworthy by the various project stakeholders (who are not officially in charge of UX). This situation may lead people think that UX is like common sense: anyone can deal with it. And if anyone can deal with UX, no need for UX experts anymore. In fact, I was wrong: UX is not dead. UX experts are. And that's probably not a bad thing.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Pascal.
I agree that since there's no one accurate definition of "UX" there is too much of a jumble of confusing, sometimes conflicting, descriptions for what "UX" actually means. Much of this comes from the rather silly job descriptions being posted for "UX Designers" some of which require…
Programming skills
Usability testing skills
User-centered design skills
Information architecture skills
Wireframing skills
Prototype development skills
Presentation skills
Communication skills with teams/stakeholders
Project management skills
etc. etc. etc.
We've all seen them. That's why a label for someone that can do all of that UX work was created, the "UX Unicorn." In theory, the UX Unicorn does not exist, just like a fabled Unicorn, because nobody could have all those skills. I tend to agree with that sentiment.
However, recently Jared Spool and some other associates have claimed that they have actually found real UX Unicorns (people who do possess enough of the skills to be UX experts, with all the design, coding, usability, IA skills in place). Because they have found these Unicorns, or so the thinking goes, they believe they can train others how to be a UX Unicorn. Thus, the Unicorn Institute was created. To educate, train and unleash upon the world real UX Unicorns.
I suppose then that UX is far from dead, and that UX experts are also not dead, but alive, according to fans of the Unicorn Institute at least!


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The argument that is common in New York and other states is on electronic cigarettes, and the main question that seems to be in debate at the moment is their safety. The battery devices that resemble cigarettes heat nicotine and emit a vapor that is apparently benign.
Even so, New York City and Chicago are contemplating adding e-cigarettes to their prohibitions on smoking in pubs, restaurants and parks althought they do not create smoke. Similarly, Los Angeles is moving to limit electronic cigarette sales. While e-cigarettes have not proved to be completely safe for users, they are certainly considered less dangerous than traditional cigarettes.
The evidence indicates that electronic cigarettes are used by many smokers expecting to kick the habit, and they provide a somewhat safer option to tobacco. Research also shows that electronic cigarettes may also be better than pharmaceutical products like nicotine patches or chewing gum at helping maintain smoking cessation.
SmokeTastic explains how to use electronic cigarettes safely. It is important to properly care for the battery and to use the E-liquid, which contains nicotine, only as directed. Specialists consider nicotine dangerous especially in high doses. Tobacco control supporters consisder the use of treatments like nicotine gum and the nicotine patch as temporary smoking-cessation assistance.
In the early 2000's the chairman of a Public Health Service group called for treatment for tobacco dependence, even if that meant treating smokers "for the remainder of their lives."
There is concern that electronic cigarettes will function as an introduction to smoking . New York City's health commissioner, Thomas A. Farley, said, "it is a threat to public health that shouldn't take place." However, prohibiting vaping (the smoking of e-cigarettes) in public may not help with the eradication of smoking or health improvement among the general population.

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In early March, a beautiful young dog was discovered in a dismal, heartbreaking situation...the pup, dubbed "Ms. Moxie Antoinette," was living in a rundown Los Angeles, Calif., area where she was starving, and forced to eat the carcass of another dog just to survive.
Thankfully, Ms. Moxie's tale does not end there...she was saved by Ghetto Rescue Ffoundation (GRFF); the details of what took place next are touching...and the impact is far-reaching.
Danielle Howard, a fifth-grade teacher at a Los Angeles area public school, reached out to the National Dog News Examiner to share the impact that a photo of Ms. Moxie had on her students. She wrote:
Recently my 5th grade students were so affected by the photo of a rescued dog that they wanted to organize a fundraiser for her medical care. She had horrible mange, and later was found to have parvo. In honor of Cesar Chavez Day of Service (March 31), the kids organized a "Pennies for Puppies" donation campaign at school that raised $467.10. GRFF was so touched by this contribution and the kids' special posters and speeches, they surprised and honored the students with service award trophies at a school assembly.
The students' good deed went well beyond the fundraising for Ms. Moxie - Howard outlined how the children's efforts influenced the other students:
At the assembly earlier this month, the students presented a slide show and brief speeches in which they educated their peers about various topics related to responsible dog ownership (spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchips, training, dog runs, dog houses, food, puppy-proofing, fences/gates, leashes, becoming a vet, shelter statistics, and a few local rescue groups).
The students also wrote thank you cards to the veterinarian at Anaheim Animal Care for "saving Moxie's life" (as well as other dogs at discounted rates), and Dr. Park was so inspired by the kids' words he matched their donation with a $500 credit for Moxie's future care!
After Ms. Moxie was saved, another dog was rescued because of the students as well - one mother was convinced by her persuasive son to adopt a dog from the kill-list at the South Los Angeles Animal Care and Control.
The students had a direct impact on one abandoned dog and they were able to influence other children at their school with their speeches about responsible pet ownership. As Ms. Howard so eloquently stated, because of one special little dog, and an altruistic class, "hearts and minds have been forever imprinted."
After Ms. Moxie recuperated, one final detail remained...her adoption. The teacher with the big-hearted students decided to foster the beautiful pup and after several weeks, she realized that she was a "foster failure," and that the once abandoned dog would live at her home permanently.
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Best SSDs For The Money: November 2011
Best SSDs: Entry-level
Best SSD for ~£50: Boot Drive
|Kingston SSDNow S100
|Sequential Read
|230 MB/s
|Sequential Write
|75 MB/s
|Power Consumption (Active)
|Power Consumption (Idle)
Kingston's SSDNow S100 series is really intended for industrial use, and we're told that you'll find these drives in toll booths, Redbox machines, and ATMs. While this is not a performance-oriented SSD, it is a decent choice that can breathe new life into an aging machine. Most of us tend to write less data than we read. If you want a quick way to speed up your home rig, a budget SSD is all you need because drives like this one offer read speeds that outpace conventional disks.
However, you are forced to adopt a dual-drive configuration. With only 16 GB, you can only use this SSD as a Windows 7 32-bit boot drive (64-bit requires 20 GB). All of your programs and personal files need to be installed on a secondary hard drive. We've also had readers write in relaying bad experiences using drives that were too small for Windows to conduct its update operations. Be cautious if you use a drive this small for anything; capacity is sure to become a point of contention pretty quickly.
Best SSD for ~£60: Boot Drive
|OCZ Vertex Plus
|Sequential Read
|185 MB/s
|Sequential Write
|90 MB/s
|Power Consumption (Active)
|Power Consumption (Idle)
OCZ's Vertex Plus series is based on the Indilinx Barefoot controller with a slightly tweaked firmware. Even with the improved software, you should have realistic expectations of what Indilinx's older controller can do. The Vertex Plus achieves better performance than a hard drive, but it falls into the lower half of the SSD performance hierarchy. Note that sequential read performance is somewhat slower than the similarly-priced 30 GB Vertex. But, armed with two times the capacity and featuring a slightly better sequential write speed, it's a fair trade-off.
For those willing to accept the caveats of SandForce compression technology, Patriot's 32 GB Torqx 2 is also offered at a similar price. Though, we should point out that the company is overstating sequential write performance, because it provides a single specification for all capacities. Actual sequential writes speed will hover around 100 MB/s.
Best SSD for ~£80: Boot Drive
|OCZ Agility 3
|Sequential Read
|525 MB/s
|Sequential Write
|475 MB/s
|Power Consumption (Active)
|Power Consumption (Idle)
At this price point, your choice is limited to a slew of 60 GB first-gen SandForce drives, Intel's 40 GB SSD 320, and OCZ's 60 GB Agility 3. Even if you don't own a 6 Gb/s-enabled motherboard, we're still going to recommend the Agility 3 because of its ability to fully saturate a SATA 3Gb/s controller, whereas those other two options can't.
Furthermore, the Agility 3 uses asynchronous ONFi 1.0 NAND that can also be found in competing SSDs, such as Corsair's Force 3. To that end, if you see another 60 GB second-gen SandForce SSD at a cheaper price, go with the less expensive option. The difference in real-world performance is relatively small.
If you only have £80- £90 to spend and you're eying a caching-based solution, skip over this MLC-based SSD and look to Intel's 20 GB SSD 311 instead. The small size doesn't matter, since the cache operates transparently; you should be more concerned with the fact that the 311 centres on SLC NAND flash, improving its performance relative to this larger alternative.
bingonairobiOnce again, the Intel 320's wholly undeserved reputation for reliability gets a boost . . .
Intel are burying their heads in the sand, and it seems that all the tech sites are either unaware of the ongoing problem, or - whisper it - are colluding in burying it.


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During the last eighty years of boxing its landscape has been coloured by the fierce rivalry that exists between two nations, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Last weekend saw the continuation of that power struggle as rising Mexican star, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez beat Puerto Rican veteran Kermit Cintron to retain his WBC Light Middleweight title. This weekend sees the resumption of hostilities between the two countries but in this instance the fight has an altogether nastier edge.
1934's clash between Puerto Rico's Sixto Escobar and Mexican Rodolfo Casanova was the first world title bout involving both nations. Since then the ongoing conflict has thrown up some memorable clashes. Julio Cesar Chavez taking on Hector 'Macho' Camacho and Felix Trinidad controversially defeating Mexican-American Oscar De La Hoya. When discussing the topic of controversy between Puerto Rico and Mexico however two names leap to the fore, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito.
The two men have met before in the ring. The war between them in 2008 was nothing short of epic. Margarito weathered a ferocious storm from Miguel Cotto early in the fight to bludgeon the Puerto Rican into submission in the penultimate round. At the time Margarito was one of the most avoided fighters in the world and this was seen as the moment he really announced himself on the world stage. It was Cotto's first defeat and it opened the door for Margarito to face American great Shane Mosley.
It was during the final preparations for the Mosley match that one of the biggest scandals of modern boxing played out. Naazim Richardson, Mosley's trainer was present in the dressing room during the wrapping of Margarito's hands and he noticed what appeared to be a plaster of Paris-type substance on the hand wraps. Obviously plaster of Paris hardens when it comes into contact with water, in this case sweat. This lead to Margarito being accused of one of boxing's most heinous crimes, fighting with loaded gloves.
Antonio Margarito lost the subsequent fight against Mosley and then lost his California state boxing license for a year. This ban was enforced by all other US state sporting commissions effectively banning the Mexican from fighting for at least twelve months. The main fallout from this ugly sequence of events was that many people now questioned the validity of Margarito's previous victories. Whilst Margarito to this day protests his innocence of any wrongdoing, either in the Mosley fight or previous bouts there are some who just cannot believe that the man from Tijuana didn't commit the ultimate boxing sin.
One of Antonio Margarito's chief accusers is Miguel Cotto himself. It is easy to understand why the Puerto Rican believes Margarito fought him with loaded gloves. It is not so much the nature of the defeat, after all Margarito walked through many of Cotto's shots to land in own during their first meeting. It is based around the damage that Cotto sustained during that fight. Cotto's face was a bloody mask of swellings and cuts by the time the fight was stopped. Nobody had ever hurt Cotto like that and at the time Margarito was highly rated but not as a particularly devastating puncher. Moreover, the two fights that Margarito has had since beating Cotto, (including the Mosley match) have ended in wide defeats for the Mexican. Miguel Cotto clearly sees this fight as a chance to prove that he was cheated out of his title.
Miguel Cotto will have to face more than just Antonio Margarito on Saturday night, he will also have to face himself. Cotto has, for so long, assumed that Margarito was cheating in 2008 when they met. This could have a number of effects come fight night. If Cotto thinks that he was beaten unfairly then theoretically he should have no fear of the Mexican. However, it is worth bearing in mind that nothing has been proven as to whether or not Margarito did use loaded gloves against Cotto. If Margarito turns out to punch just as hard when his wraps have been approved by the relevant authorities then where does Cotto turn? If the first fight proved anything it's that the Puerto Rican's punches aren't hard enough to deter Margarito from coming forward. As one boxing journalist said of the Mexican this week, "his gloves might have been loaded but his chin wasn't".
Of all the accusations that could be levelled against Antonio Margarito, a lack of heart isn't one of them. In defeats to Shane Mosley and then Manny Pacquiao he took ferocious beatings but still kept battling. Indeed, the fractured orbital socket of his right eye sustained during the Pacquiao bout actually put this fight in danger. It is Margarito's spirit and tenacity which make this fight so hard to call. My initial feeling, like so many, was that Cotto was going get his revenge. This would be the night that he dealt with the demons created in the wake of the loss to Margarito but the emotionally driven boxer often loses out to a more calculating opponent. Therein lies the rub, Margarito isn't particularly bothered by Miguel Cotto but the same is obviously not the case when roles are reversed.
For many fans Antonio Margarito should never have been let near a boxing ring again after he was found guilty of attempting to fight with loaded wraps. For the same fans it would be a fairy tale ending should Miguel Cotto beat his nemesis, boxing's ultimate bad guy. Whilst sport often gives us the Hollywood ending we crave it also dishes up its fair share of unpopular results. My overriding feeling going into this fight is that Cotto will crumble under the relentless barrage of Margarito's work and it will be a good night for the supposed villain of the piece.
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"You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss..."
Unless, of course, it's televised on a national sports network (www.espn.com) and between two men after one of them was chosen to play pro football.
And replayed thousands of times on virtually every network.
For those of you who had been living in Biosphere II, Michael Sam, (Missouri) the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, was taken in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams.
The Twitterverse exploded.
As always, the 140 character missives ran the gamut from very positive to highly negative and sparked several firestorms of their own.
The YouTube clip went viral.
Just wondering out loud...why all the hue and cry?
Continuing with the Casablanca theme, was anyone really shocked to see that gambling was going on in this establishment?
What precisely about 'openly gay' don't people get?
Wouldn't openly gay men, by definition, not shy away from showing their love for one another and elation at such a big moment.
Is anything really shocking anymore?
Madonna? Lady Gaga?
Have you seen an episode of Californication on Showtime?
Or Days Of Our Lives on NBC?
You should be more shocked that people are still watching soap operas.
Football took a back seat to this huge sea change when Sam was tabbed as the final round wound down with just 10 picks to go.
There were questions about his numbers at the combine as well as his size and speed.
There were similar questions about Wisconsin's Chris Borland, who was grabbed up by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round at No. 77.
His coming out as gay in March started the conversation.
Would any of the 32 teams draft an openly gay player?
And, if no one does, what does that say about our society and the testosterone fest that is the NFL?
Is this a 'Jackie Robinson' moment for Commissioner Roger Goodell and his league?
That's hard to predict, just like the future of any of the men chosen during the three-day extravaganza.
Did we mention that Sam is black and his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, is white?
That may be for another talk show.
Let's take one controversy at a time.
Perhaps we can get back to the X's and O's and whether Sam and the rest of the draftees can play at the next level.


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Acharya Melissa Moore
Melissa Moore, PhD., has been a Shambhalian since 1979. She received her Master's degree from Naropa and a PhD in Psychological Anthropology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She became an Acharya in 2012. Melissa was co- founding Director of The Karuna Training, a professional training in Contemplative Psychology offered throughout Europe and currently starting up in Northern California. Melissa is currently a Senior Executive of Family Service Agency (FSA) San Francisco and the founding Director of The Felton Institute since 2005.


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LAS VEGAS — Clean Show 2011 drew 11,200 attendees June 6-9 and garnered positive reviews from many exhibitors. The press release headline from Riddle & Associates, the show's longtime manager, was positively glowing: "Clean 2011 Acclaimed Best Show in Years."
"Almost everyone we talked with—both attendees and exhibitors—had nothing but positive comments about the show," says John Riddle, president of Riddle & Associates. "Based on exhibitor comments, people really came ready to buy."
Clean 2011 Chairman David Cotter, CEO of the Textile Care Allied Trades Association, spent much of the show walking the floor and speaking with exhibitors.
"The feedback I received was nearly unanimous," he says. "A consistent theme running through these comments was the high-level quality attendees and their readiness to purchase."
The attendance reflected a 13% increase over Clean '09 in New Orleans. The number of exhibiting companies (430) was up more than 4%, and total exhibit space of roughly 184,150 net square feet was within about 4% of the New Orleans show.
Trying to take in all 430 exhibits and make note of new items, even over the course of four days, was quite a chore. Watch American Coin-Op and AmericanCoinOp.com throughout the year for new-product updates, but here are just a few things that were eye-catching:
- Speed Queen and Huebsch introduced new 125-pound vended washer-extractors.
- Several companies, including ESD, Card Concepts Inc., WashCard Systems, Setomatic Systems, Standard Change-Makers and Heartland MicroPayments, presented new or improved cashless payment systems.
- LG announced the launch of a new family of coin, card and on-premise washers and dryers.
- R&B Wire Products introduced a line of recycled poly trucks.
- Maytag featured a new, high-efficiency stack washer/dryer and a front-load pair.
Educational sessions targeting self-service laundry owners and operators drew large crowds. They touched on a variety of subjects, including marketing, financing, water conservation and more.
Seated in cozy chairs, Coin Laundry Association Executive Director Brian Wallace and three store owners could have been conversing about e-marketing in an office or conference room, but the hall full of attendees had the opportunity to "eavesdrop" on them during Upfront and Online: Leading Store Owners Discuss E-Marketing.
Having store websites has been a valuable marketing tool for all three owners. Louise Messano, owner of three Texas laundries, called her website "the first window to see inside my store."
Tom Rhodes, a second-generation laundry owner who has eight stores in Florida, uses his website to direct customers to his stores, but he also markets using English and Spanish video testimonials.
Social media such as Facebook is a growing phenomenon that Wallace called "the new word of mouth." If self-service laundry owners aren't part of it, then they're losing the ability to keep track of their businesses, warns Jeff Gardner, the "Laundry Doctor," a store owner and marketing expert from Minnesota.
The store owners regularly use contests as a way to gather e-mail addresses and build their e-marketing efforts.
The Clean Executive Committee made news when it announced the host cities and dates for the next three Clean Shows: New Orleans will host the event June 21-23, 2013; Atlanta will host April 17-19, 2015; and the show will return to Las Vegas June 19-21, 2017.
The biggest news was that the shows are scheduled for just three days vs. the traditional four. The dates reflect a more concise and efficient format designed to give exhibitors and attendees a better value for their time and money invested in the Clean Show, the CEC says.
If the three-day experiment doesn't work as well as hoped, the show could return to the four-day format, according to Cotter.


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Core Strength For Dummies
364 pages
December 2008
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Table of Contents
Author Information
LaReine Chabut is a fitness and lifestyle expert, model, and mom. She is a lead instructor for America's #1 exercise video series, The Firm, as well as the author of Exercise Balls For Dummies and Stretching For Dummies. Chabut has appeared on the cover of such magazines as Shape and Health and has been seen on CNN, ABC, Extra, and Access Hollywood.


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What does MYOB mean in Community?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand MYOB in the field in general and in the Community terminology in particular.
Mind Your Own Business
Salutation, Reminder, Command, Rebuttal, Reprimand et al: "Stay Out Of My Business", Leave Me Alone, "Butt-OUT"!, 'Don't Interfere, Intervene, 'Concern Yourself', Don't Get Involved!, "Stay Out Of this;" Ye Ed fmf
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- MYOB, Mind Your Own Business, is an Australian multinational corporation that provides tax, accounting and other services to small and medium businesses.
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Portland Principle Says Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches are Racist
Sounds reasonable
Verenice Gutierrez picks up on the subtle language of racism every day.
Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year.
"What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?" says Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, a diverse school of 500 students in Northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood.
"Another way would be to say: 'Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?' Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita." –Portland Tribune
Take a good look, America. Take a good hard look. This is our education system. This incoherent rambling about racist sandwiches is the type of stuff kids hear every day, all over the country. In Portland there is a principle condemning the bigotry of our favorite legume based lunch. Next week, there will be a superintendent in Cincinnati accusing chestnuts of being lazy. In a couple months, we'll have a dean in Peoria claiming he invented the question mark. I'd say it's high time we start thinking about holding these people accountable. Looking at you Chicago Teachers Union.
And besides, everyone knows that a Reuben is by far the most racist sandwich. So salty and bitter.


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How to Plant a Perennial Plant
Perennials are plants that grow from year to year, and many are long-lived. Make them a part of your garden with these simple steps.
Materials Needed
- perennial plant
- spade
- watering can or garden hose
Step 1: Prepare Plant
Place the plant in its pot on the ground in a position that suits its growing needs and not too close to other plants. The soil in the pot should be thoroughly soaked before planting to help give the plant a good start.
Step 2: Dig Hole
With a spade, dig a hole wider and deeper than the size of the plant's container. Add organic matter, such as garden compost, to the base of the hole and dig it in well. Pour some water into the hole before planting.
Step 3: Tease Roots
Remove the plant carefully from its pot. If the roots tightly encircle the root ball, the plant is pot-bound and the roots need to be teased out gently. Place the plant in the hole, slightly deeper in the ground than when it was in its pot.
Step 4: Backfill Around Plant
Backfill around the root ball, firming the soil as you go and ensuring that the plant stands straight in its hole. Avoid mounding the soil around the stems; the plant should be in the center of a shallow depression. Water well.
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Want to Try Safe Browsing?
By Glenn Faden-Oracle on Aug 24, 2006
If you have installed Solaris Trusted Extensions, you may want to try
the Safe Browsing environment that I use at Sun. The configuration is a
bit complicated, but I have provided most of the files in a compressed
tar file txdemo
which you can download. After uncompressing the file you should extract
it as root in the global zone. The tar file will extract into /opt/txdemo.
It is assumed that you will be using separate Firefox browsers in the
public and internal zones. The public zone will be used to access the
external Internet and the internal zone will be used for the internal
Intranet. To maintain network separation, a URL transfer service will
forward external URLs from your internal browser so that they can be
processed using the pubic browser.
Some of these files need to be customized or copied.
The manifest for the url-xfer service needs to be copied into the
public zone which you will use to access the public Internet. You
should do this as root in the public zone. For example:
# cd /var/svc/manifest/application
# mkdir web
# cp /opt/txdemo/var/svc/manifest/application/web/url-xfer.xml web
The two proxy.pac scripts (public.pac, internal.pac) should be
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corpProxy should be changed as appropriate for your office environment.
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Preferences menu.
For example, in the public browser you should specify the following URL:
In the internal browser you should specify the following URL:
The shell script ./bin/openURL is specific to Firefox. If you are using
a different browser you will need to customize this script. If the
mozilla-xremote-client application is not in /usr/lib/firefox you will
need to correct the pathname.
In addition to these steps, you will need to specify the networking
policy for web access. All of the following steps can be done
graphically using the Computers and Networks GUI in the Solaris
Managment Console. If you prefer to do get your hands dirty, the files
can be edited by hand.
The port 8080 in the public zone must be specified as a Multilevel
Port. If you are using an all-zones IP address in the public zone, you
should specify the port of the shared IP address.
The /etc/security/tsol/tnzonecfg entry would look like this:
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server, and specify that the default template for your corporate
network is internal.
You will need entries like this in /etc/security/tsol/tnrhdb
# Corporate Proxy Servers
# Default Label for Corporate Intranet
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Been back from our holiday to Rhodes for a week now, but only just getting around to putting up a couple of snaps.
Didn't start too well with a 2-hour delay on the flight (well, just under unfortunately, so no compensation), which got us into Rhodes in time for a late dinner. We were staying at the Avra Beach resort in Ixia... clean, quiet, and, because it's all-inclusive, all the poolside cocktails, ice-cream and cakes we could lay our hands on :)
Fitted in a few excursions along the way... first up was a sail over to the island of Symi, where we failed miserably to find the 500 steps up from Gialos to the old town of Chorio-- probably not a bad result in the 30 degree heat, to be honest. After a quick scoot around to the other side of the island to take in the monastery at Panormitis, we were back in time for tea.
After taking the next day to ourselves to brave the local buses, wander round the UNESCO world heritage site of Rodos old town, and dispose of an ill-chosen bottle of local retsina down the sink (doing little to dispel our fear that we'd accidentally bought a bottle of J\^HCif instead), our next package-tastic guided tour took in a trip up the cross at Filerimos, some wine tasting at Emery's in Embonas, the Valley of the Butterflies (which are really moths) at Petaloudes, and two hotels and a house at Profitis Ilias that were built for Mussolini.
Final outing was another boat trip down the coast to Lindos, with its impressive acropolis that, like most things in Rhodes, involves a long and occasionally precarious climb. How we cringed as some poor tourist girly fell headlong halfway down the majestic stone steps. (Doing no serious damage to either, fortunately.)
One day left to sit by the pool, another evening of entertainment in the form of a bizarre French 80's disco for kids, and that was it-- we were off home again. (On another delayed flight.)


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