Main Websites 

Usability Consulting, Sculpture, Publications

8904 Carlisle Road
Wyndmoor, PA 19038

JackBellis@hotmail.com

 
 

UsabilityInstitute.com

Commentary and many free resources for software usability, based on my non-stop focus on user advocacy... "learnability gallery," RFP criteria, function tree, free heuristic reviews, and more.

1999—

 

 
 

Lexonomy

Early construction phase of a hierarchical dictionary. Very exciting stuff in a dull, librarian-ish way.

February, 2008

 
 

RSIRescue.com

Website to help sufferers of repetitive strain injury—the infamous carpal tunnel syndrome—and substantial content from our Amazon 5-Star book on on the subject, in its 4th printing.

May, 2000—

 
 

OfficeSwap.com is a powerful free database that lets you try to swap jobs with someone who works close to where you live and lives close to where you work. No, I'm not kidding.

This site is usable but no one has posted a real commute yet.

December, 2007—

 
 

The World's Greatest Chess Set

1987

 
       
 

WorkAtHomeWednesday.com
Just a web page to promote an idea to save fossil fuels.

November, 2007—

 
 

Poopy Phonics
The First Words on Your Kids Mind


Printed February 14, 2007. US$9.95 Be among the first to buy this future classic?

>>>Get $2.00 back until May 4, 2008. No strings, no small print. Just send me the actual UPC code from the book.

 
 

Pete Rose Sculpture

1985

 
 

Aging Is Dead

If you think global warming is a biggie, wait 'til our kids have to deal with this one.

June, 2007—

 
 

Shackleton Sculpture

36" round, bas-relief sculpture of Man's Greatest Story of Survival and Rescue. A little bit of a debacle, quite a bit of an obsession, but a massive work of art nonetheless.

2002

 
 

Lite the Lamp

Free Macromedia Director Hockey Shootout Game, 700K Zip Download of an EXE... A genuine antique! A Macromedia Director piece originally produced for Shockwave, the predecessor to Flash.

1997

 
 


Personal Sculpture Monopoly Tokens

The Ultimate Gift! A likeness of you or your favorite person (you?), 1" tall. With or without a loop to hang on a chain. Put this on the board at the next Monopoly game and people will surrender.

1977

 
 

Op-Ed Piece, Philadelphia Inquirer

My 15 column-inches of fame.

March 1999

 
       
 

Winning the Business Softwar

Free booklet on software usability.

2000

 
 

Simax, Video Sign Software

A software antique. A program written for the Atari 800 (in Basic) and later, Commodore 64 (in 6502 Assembler). Run it free in an emulator.

 

 

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