Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
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Strategic Design: 6 Steps For Building Successful Websites
- November 5th, 2008
- 91 Comments
Web design isn’t art. It involves a whole collection of different skills — from copywriting and typography to layout and art — all fused together to create an interface that not only features a pleasant aesthetic but that communicates function and facilitates easy access to its content. But in order to ...
Read more...Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
- July 4th, 2008
- 129 Comments
If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it ...
Read more...Should Links Open In New Windows?
- July 1st, 2008
- 244 Comments
No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open dozens of links in ...
Read more...Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design
- April 24th, 2008
- 51 Comments
Web design has significantly improved over the last years. It’s more user-friendly and more appealing today — and there is a good reason behind it: over the years we’ve found out that design with focus on usability and user experience is just more effective. Modern cut-edge design isn’t filled with ...
Read more...10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
- January 31st, 2008
- 335 Comments
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, ...
Read more...Usability and Interface Design Books
- January 24th, 2008
- 54 Comments
Usability and interaction design are fields that are becoming important for every website design. They consider the interactions between the user and every system, nowadays most commonly applied to websites. A product has more chances to be successful if it’s design makes emphasis on usability. Making a website easy to ...
Read more...Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users
- January 16th, 2008
- 33 Comments
The Web has changed. This isn’t your neighbor’s nerdy kid’s internet anymore. Now the Web is home to your mom, your grandma and your technophobe sister. With computers as common a household appliance as televisions now, who might be using your web-application has expanded beyond the realm of ...
Read more...Splash Pages: Do We Really Need Them?
- October 11th, 2007
- 70 Comments
Yes, sometimes we do. Should we use them? No, we probably shouldn’t. Splash screen (or splash page) is a front page of a web-site that don’t provide the actual content, but offers visitors some kind of intuition or background information for what the site is about. Designers use splash pages ...
Read more...30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
- October 9th, 2007
- 97 Comments
You don’t have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors’ interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding of good user experience and make sure the visitors will find their way through (possibly) complex site architecture. And this means that ...
Read more...10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
- September 27th, 2007
- 182 Comments
Sometimes you just want to get the information you’re after, save it and move along. And you can’t. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and again; usually almost every time you type your search keywords in Google. In his article ...
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