Author: Dmitry Fadeyev
Dmitry Fadeyev is the founder of the Usability Post blog, where you can read his thoughts on good design and usability.
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Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
- November 17th, 2009
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The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people ...
Read more...10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
- September 24th, 2009
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Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web ...
Read more...12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process
- May 28th, 2009
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Shopping online can be a great experience. You don’t have to leave the comfort of your home and you can quickly compare and read about all the competing products in order to pick the best one for you. But it can also be a little frustrating if the process isn’t ...
Read more...7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
- April 13th, 2009
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Last week we presented 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert – we discussed various rules and guidelines from marketing, such as subliminal suggestion, prevention of choice paralysis, AIDA-principle, attention guide and the Gutenberg rule. The main idea was to help designers and developers create a design that would ...
Read more...Design To Sell: 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert
- April 6th, 2009
- 116 Comments
As we see more and more businesses move their services online, and even more that begin their life on the Web, a greater need arises for websites that are designed and built to sell. A great-looking website may achieve the goal of shaping and delivering a strong brand, but its ...
Read more...9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design
- February 18th, 2009
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By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers. Delight and satisfy your visitors, rather than frustrate and annoy them, with smart design decisions. Here are 9 usability problems that ...
Read more...12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface Design
- January 19th, 2009
- 81 Comments
Last week, we presented 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques, the first part of our review of useful design trends in modern Web applications. Among other things, we highlighted embedded video blocks, specialized controls and context-sensitive navigation. We also encouraged designers to disable pressed buttons, use shadows around modal windows ...
Read more...10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
- January 12th, 2009
- 125 Comments
More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, ...
Read more...10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
- December 15th, 2008
- 231 Comments
Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I ...
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