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9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design | How-To | Smashing Ma
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 websites commonly face , and some recommended solutions for each of them. Hyperlinks are designed to be clicked, so to make them usable, it makes sense to ensure that they’re easy to click . Here’s an example of links that are far too small; clicking them is harder than it should be.
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Ideas They already had a good website and an award-winning contact center, but they wanted to get a better handle on their customers’ journeys across all touchpoints
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User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. Jared M. Spool and his team of researchers oversee a variety of events and publications. Our UIE Virtual Seminars allow you to learn from the comfort of your own office.
User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE
A better tool doesn’t make a better craftsman, but a good tool makes working a pleasure. iA Writer for Mac is a digital writing tool that makes sure that all your thoughts go into the text instead of the program. iA Writer has no preferences. It is how it is. It works like it works. Love it or hate it.
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Article by: Sam Smith I am a sketcher. I recently realized quite how much sketching defines what I do when someone pointed out to me that I rarely present any work without a pen in my hand. Whether I’m drawing on a whiteboard or quickly sketching on paper sketching that helps me to illustrate what I’m talking about.
Wireframes Magazine
4 Things No One Told Me About High-Fidelity Wireframes Wireframes come in different fidelities. On one hand, you have low-fidelity wireframes that don’t resemble the final product as much, but still capture the user interface layout and controls. (via UX Movement )
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UXmatters :: Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
“In addition to understanding academic principles, good designers have mastered the soft skills relating to design. They know how to channel their creative energy, they understand how to work with others, they are effective at presenting their work….” If you are a UX leader or the lead designer on a team, it’s likely that part of your job is helping other designers improve their skills. Fortunately, there is a wide variety of resources on the concepts and methods of experience design, information architecture, user research, and related disciplines that you can leverage in educating other designers on the fundamentals of user-centered design. However, fundamentals are just the start. In addition to understanding academic principles, good designers have mastered the soft skills relating to design.
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UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX)
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