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The Commonwealth narrowly pipped Westpac as Australia’s top bank due to the usability of its mobile and digital services, but Westpac was deemed to be the bank with the highest score in mobile banking functionality, according to a newly published study.

Ubuntu Linux has been described as so simple your grandmother could use it. That continues to ring true as one user of social news site Reddit found this week, with his grandmother now swearing off Windows for life.

A recent usability study of nine opt-out tools that target behavioural-based advertising found they were confusing, difficult to operate and communicated very poorly with users.

There's a meme spreading that says Apple was right to stay with a 3.5in screen for the iPhone family despite calls for more real estate. The argument is that you can't easily reach the opposite corners when using a 4+in device one-handed, but I call shenanigans.

With the iPad 2 under attack from a wide range of tablets that either most don't yet want or which still aren't available until later this year, with some just getting new delays in the last week, 2011 is already the year of the iPad 2 by availability, desirability, demand and default.

A new study has slammed iPad apps as inconsistent, finding "frequent user errors" were being made and that "users don't know where to click."

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) today announced that Steve Krug, renowned Usability expert and author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability will appear on IBF 24 on 2-3 June 2010.