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Free report: Benchmarking the user experience of car insurance websites

In this report, we apply our benchmarking protocol to evaluate 20 Irish, British, and American car insurance websites, and we provide a user-experience league table, along with best-practice examples and recommendations.

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Audits - High-profile sites go through our assault course

Irish political websites: a lot dumb, more to do?

Back in 2004, we did a quick audit of Irish political websites. Three years on have any of the main players made any real online progress? Are any of the parties successfully harnessing the blog, the podcast, or YouTube?

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Features - Views you can use from iQ Content

Personas for intranets

In this article, Clodagh discusses the use of personas for intranet design and proposes a user model for information-sharing intranets.

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Interviews - We talk to people you should talk to

Behind the scenes at the CNN.com relaunch

CNN.com unveiled its redesign over the weekend, incorporating a cleaner look, a better way of linking different media on the same story, and some slick Web 2.0 goodness (including in-page video and user commenting). It's a radical do-over for one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the Web. We asked the production teams (in London, Atlanta and Hong Kong) how they approached the project.

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