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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

From Justin Mifsud
November 8th, 2011
70 Comments

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. In this article, we’ll provide practical ...

Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools

From Cameron Chapman
October 20th, 2011
50 Comments

Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and ...

Free DownloadCheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

From Joe Leech
October 7th, 2011
40 Comments

Forms, forms, forms, often overlooked when it comes to design. In this post we are glad to release a Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, Photoshop (PSD) and PDF examples for you to ...

Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2: Guiding Customers Through The Buying Process

From Lyndon Cerejo
September 22nd, 2011
23 Comments

Part 1 of “Improving the Online Shopping Experience” focused on the upper part of the purchase funnel and on ways to get customers to your website and to find your products. Today, we move down the funnel, looking at ways to enable customers to make the decision to buy and ...

Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 1: Getting Customers To Your Products

From Lyndon Cerejo
September 15th, 2011
30 Comments

Amazon turned sweet sixteen this year, and, by extension, so did online shopping as we know it. As online shopping has grown over the past 16 years, so have user needs and expectations related to the online shopping experience. Setting up shop online is easy, but creating an experience that ...

Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers

From Jeff Gothelf
September 9th, 2011
38 Comments

Anyone designing Web-based properties today requires a basic understanding of interaction design principles. Even if your training is not formally in human-computer interaction, user experience design or human factors, knowing the fundamentals of these disciplines greatly enhances the chances of your design’s success. This is especially true for visual designers. ...

Designing Global Applications For Children

From Catalina Naranjo-Bock
September 2nd, 2011
11 Comments

The entire process of designing digital applications comes with many challenges and decisions. For the majority of projects, you will be designing in somewhat familiar territory. But what happens when you have to design something to be used by hundreds of children around the world? How do you accommodate your ...

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

From Luke Wroblewski
August 22nd, 2011
79 Comments

For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed ...

Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study

From Laura Klein
August 17th, 2011
28 Comments

I read a lot of design articles about best practices for improving the flow of sign-up forms. Most of these articles offer great advice, such as minimizing the number of steps, asking for as little information up front as possible, and providing clear feedback on the status of the user’s ...

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