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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 ...

Getting Started With Defensive Web Design

From Ian Lurie
May 27th, 2011
48 Comments

Nothing ruins a great website UI like people using it. At least, it often feels that way. You put in days or weeks building the interface, only to find that a vast majority of visitors abandon it partway through the process that it supports. Most of the time, visitors leave ...

Print Loves Web

From Mark Cossey
May 23rd, 2011
25 Comments

A recent power cut highlighted the fragile and dated way I access content on the Web. I sit in front of a computer which has a number of hardware elements like a keyboard, mouse and monitor — all connected to a black box which houses a number of other smaller ...

Optimizing Emotional Engagement In Web Design Through Metrics

From Shell Greenier
May 19th, 2011
47 Comments

Think about what keeps you coming back to your favorite store, your favorite person or even your favorite website. It’s not just a mindless buy-go, hug-go or click-go relationship. It is a complicated, emotional connection. It is what makes relationships with people and brands intoxicating. User engagement must have an ...

Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

From Anthony T
May 5th, 2011
154 Comments

There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms simpler and more efficient to fill out. In this article, we’d like to present a couple of new ideas that might ...

Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

From Helge Fredheim
March 15th, 2011
110 Comments

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly. Furthermore, many ...

Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

From Jeff Gothelf
March 7th, 2011
124 Comments

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy. These deliverables crystallized the value ...

Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across

From Andrew Maier
February 24th, 2011
25 Comments

Start-up organizations provide an extraordinary example of chaos organized into manageable chunks. Perhaps more than anyone else, the individuals who comprise a start-up team are required to understand their team’s goals across a variety of disciplines — research, marketing, design, development, architecture, etc. — as well as their own responsibility ...

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