Welcome to July edition of Useworthy. Wimbledon is getting into full swing, so we take a look at the site to see how many points it scores. Arlene Kline, one of our Usability Specialists lets us in on her bedtime reading and Jamie Wilson talks about total design... And football! It must be on the brain. We take things back to the workplace with an article on Charcol and their recent redesign to which Usability was key.

Arlene Kline, one of The Usability team at TUC discusses 'Skip Intro, Macromedia® Flash^TM, Usability and Interface Design, Michelangelo, Capraro & Duncan McAlester.'

As a Usability Specialist I found the usability advice well balanced with practical tips that those of us on 'the front lines' have picked up through experience. This is a good basic guide to User Centered Design using Flash. It discusses the fundamental issues that need to be considered when designing usable systems: know what your users truly require from the system, design the system with these users' requirements in mind, then test with the system with target users to ensure that it is easy to learn, easy to use, easy to remember, effective, efficient, fit for purpose and consistent.

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Watching the World Cup for the last few weeks I've heard the term Total Football crop up from time to time. For those of you not au fait with the term, it's used by the pundits to describe a style of play that covers all aspects of the Beautiful Game.

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Charcol, the leading UK independent mortgage and financial advisor has launched its revamped website www.charcolonline.co.uk. Charcolonline has processed over £1 billion worth of online mortgage applications since its launch in 1999. 

What with the racket going on about Wimbledon, we checked out it's main site to see if it scored points.