Validating web page forms is a remarkably difficult task. But if you make websites, you'd better be good at it.

Being good at it means not doing things like this:

When you commit to creating meaningful, usable experiences one of the best ways to make sure you're doing it well is to conduct usability testing. This testing can uncover areas of your site or application where users have a hard time understanding how to accomplish what they need to do, and can also confirm where the site is working well in terms of usability.

There are many days where you might find me walking up to my coworkers and asking "Do you have a couple minutes for a quick usability test?" It's not scientific, and not how a traditional usability test is run — but that's okay because even these quick ad-hoc usability tests can confirm that a design is usable or uncover that it needs a little rework. We at Clockwork see the importance of doing usability testing not only ad-hoc, but also a step up from that too.

In order to conduct those tests, we recently set up a new addition to the Clockwork office: the Usability Lab!

Come down to the Clockwork service station [map] on November 13th from 5-9pm for our pre-holiday, post-recession, luck-changing jam and mingle with us — and our clients, friends and neighbors!

I just read someone proclaim loudly in the comments over at Gamasutra that as of the Android 1.6 SDK, you can officially use C++ to develop your Android applications.

Some digging reveals that it's not the SDK, but the NDK (native development kit) that allows for C++ with android.

This morning at the Clockwork kitchen table, Marty and I had an argument centering around the Flip camera. It went something like this:

Twitter's meteoric rise has resulted in a vast number of tweets—short bursts of text, links and pictures. Brands, event managers, speakers, educators and individuals are looking for ways to filter the torrent of tweets and Tweetwally, a new web application we developed, gives users more powerful ways to use Twitter than ever.

Clockwork is excited to annouce the launch of the new Hawaiian Gardens Casino website! The site is using MasterCal for it's upcoming events and promotions, beyond the great functionality, the site is really pretty to look at!

Yeah, you heard me. Kiss ‘em! Don’t get me wrong – I love apps. But, too many marketers are mistaking "There's an app for that" for a true mobile marketing strategy.

The emergence and rapid adoption of apps have given mobile the attention that it deserves, but overall they’ve given marketers and brands the wrong impression when it comes to mobile strategy.

Apple's Snow Leopard OS completely changed how they're calculating KB, MB and GB! A Kilobyte is no longer 1024 bytes... now it's 1000 bytes.

Apparently the new way to refer to 1024 bytes is a KiB, or a Kibobyte. (Which sounds like dogfood to me.) Correspondingly there are MiB, GiB and TiB. Apparently hard drive manufacturers have long used these definitions, but AFAIK, Apple is the first OS to adopt them.