Neowin News Feed for: Usability

WhatsApp's unified call menu streamlines conversations on iOS

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:42:01 +0000

WhatsApp for iOS has a new unified call menu to improve group and business conversations. The redesign brings together the voice and video call buttons into a single button. Read more...

Chrome OS gets a handful of usability updates

Usman Khan Lodhi — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:40:01 +0000

The newest features making their way to Chromebooks include a Live Captions feature, inline search results for simple questions, a new Diagnostics app, and a direct scanning capability. Read more...

Microsoft reveals Windows 8 "All Programs" view, answers Start Screen concerns

Denis Wong — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:50:58 +0000

Microsoft addresses more of the most common concerns users have with the Start screen in Windows 8. In addition, they've left a hint of what the All Programs view will evolve into. Read more...

Windows 7 design concepts & usability tests

Tom Warren — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:44:00 +0000

We're just in a session on design practices in Windows 7. Microsoft just demonstrated a usability test where a user hovered over the new taskbar and was impressed so much they just continued playing around... Read more...

Microsoft Windows XP Operating System: Usability Study

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:54:12 +0000

Betanews has posted a 6 page study into the useability of Microsoft Windows XP, nice read! Below a Blurb: Bloomsburg University students were recruited for this research from communication classes. Student volunteers were... Read more...

Editorial: Usability - Singing the Praises of XP

Mon, 03 Sep 2001 14:57:57 +0000

Many of us reading this article probably can't remember the feeling of being daunted by sitting in front of a computer for the first time. For a lot of us, we spent years with DOS... Read more...