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A really well designed user interface is one that goes unnoticed by the user, whereas a poorly designed user interface forces the user to pay attention to it instead of the content. Users come to ... read more If you have searched images on Google recently, you might have noticed the interesting expanding preview for a larger image when you click on a thumbnail. It's a reall... read more Today I'd like to share my process for creating a flexible JavaScript UI plugin I've dubbed HexaFlip.
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10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies
We hear plenty usability tips and techniques from an incalculable number of sources. Many of the ones we take seriously have sound logic, but it’s even more validating when we find actual data and reports to back up their theories and conjectures. This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements. You’ll discover that many of these usability tips will be common sense but are further supported with numbers ; however, some might surprise you and change your outlook on your current design processes. 1. Forget the "Three-Click Rule"60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers
The Internet being what it is, web designers do not have a hard time finding resources. However, there are times when you have to call in the big guns. That's right, we're talking about university courses, and they cover everything from design theory to Internet culture.
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines - Smashing Magazine
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 and interface design, and the findings are valuable in helping us improve our work. Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites. 1. Form Labels Work Best Above The FieldArticles
A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design Before the very first page of a book has been read, you've already analyzed it in countless ways without even noticing. The paper stock, the thickness of the binding, the aroma, the color of the type and even the texture of the cover; the very character of the book is being dissected by the hand and eye at every moment. In this brief second there is a dialogue between the reader and the object. This conversation is subtle and complex, but for most people it is entirely subconscious.
Die Indexed Database API (kurz Indexed DB) nimmt in der Web-Plattform die Rolle der dicken Datenbank ein. Während Web Storage als Cookie-Ersatz eingeplant ist und nicht als zuverlässiger Datenspeicher für große Applikationen taugt, ist Indexed DB genau dafür gedacht. Anders als bei Web Storage kann Indexed DB neben Strings auch Zahlen, Objekte und Arrays persistent speichern und selbst Blobs stellen kein Problem dar. Darüber hinaus können die gespeicherten Inhalte einfach aus der Datenbank herausgepickt werden und über Teile der Daten zu iterieren ist auch möglich – wie es bei einer richtigen Datenbank eben sein sollte. Damit stellt diese API einen wichtigen Mosaikstein im HTML5-Universum dar, denn einen anderen großkalibrigen Datenspeicher für offlinefähige Webapps wird es so bald nicht nicht browserübergreifend geben.