I saw Intuitect a while back and have been waiting for it to launch.

I have always seen the need in the usability industry to:

• Share and create knowledge in and across a teams of designers,
• Document systems in a much more flexible and interactive way,
• Rapidly produce usability designs, and
• Automatically prototype.

Priced at US$495 Intuitect is a Visio plug in that helps you to create:

• Sitemaps
• Flowmaps
• Wireframes and menus
  
• Patterns and a library
  
• Notations
• Standards compliant UI Widgets
• Prototypes (High-Fidelity)

At US$495 it is pitched in the right place for usability/IA professionals (unless you have a Mac).

Sarah at Boxes and Arrows has given it a review and her readers’ comments provide a further heads up.

Try it for free for a month and let me know what you think!

In February 2007 I opened an Ark Group Search conference with this presentation.

Search Usability - Making life easier

Discover the relationship between userneeds, search adn overall usability.

• Don’t forget it’s all about the people
• Consider your organisational context
• Desiging effective search
• Usability testing tools

Download it here

Are you wasting your time taking usability testing notes and standardising the process acvross observers?? Check out Userfocus’ Usability Test Data Logger v3.0 It’s not overly complex and allows you to:

• Measure task completion rates, and
• Summarise participant comments.

It even has a timer so you can measure time-on-task!

It’s free, customizable and even has a manual.