We have recently spent a lot of time looking at data quality issues in publisher data. Email addresses are a key piece of contact info, and essential for online marketing campaigns, so it’s particularly important […]

Like many online services, MasterVision lets users create searches which include ANDs and ORs. These terms are used in everyday English, and so it’s easy to assume that their meaning should be clear. But in practice, […]

In MasterVision it’s possible to run searches which return a very large number of results, with thousands or even millions of hits. This gives rise to an interesting challenge – how best to allow users to […]

Lists appear everywhere on the web: most commonly as bulleted or numbered text and within dropdown form fields. This comes as no surprise, because lists are a great way of helping users make sense of […]

Website owners spend a lot of time and effort debating and designing navigation menus for their sites, but for users, the most frequently used navigation aid is likely to be their browser’s ‘Back’ button. Consistently […]

Effective testing is key to the success of any IT project, but can be difficult to get right. When not done well, it is a source of frustration for project managers, business users, and developers […]

Companies are always keen to look at systems and processes to improve productivity, but often ‘the little things’ relating to personal productivity can be equally important. Here we list our top 5 tips for working […]

Passwords have become a fact of online life: the chances are you’ve entered several and perhaps created (or even forgotten) one or more already today. With such widespread use, it can be easy to view […]