Record user paths for free!

If you use Firefox for doing user observation testing of Web pages and you are particularly interested in the order in which a user views pages, you can use this Firefox extension, called DejaClick to record a user path and then play it back later.

The developer designed it to save a Web browsing person from having to re-navigate a favorite site.

User Assistance Professionals to Gather

If you create user assistance for a Web site or desktop software product, you need to be in Portland next march. WriterUA is the premier conference of the year for people who create Help, tutorials, Web content for an intranet, or any other form of user assistance delivered online. The 2008 WritersUA Conference pages include information on sessions, hotels, fun and games, and associated seminars.