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Many designers rely on pattern libraries to create simple, intuitive interfaces. Vladimir Oane shows us how uberVU deconstructed a common design pattern to produce a more robust result. Read More
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Guidelines
Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, compiled through an extensive process of research and review, bring you those best practices. The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (PDF, 20.64MB ) includes all the guidelines, the Background and Methodology, the Glossary, Appendices, Sources, and the Author Index. We have included the document for your convenience but we are in the process of presenting the guidelines in a searchable database.
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.
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine
I remember seeing it in the back of comic books, alongside ads for things like sea monkeys , X-ray glasses , ant farms , and Charles Atlas . (Yes, I'm really that old.) It asked you six questions about yourself, and if you answered four or more of them “YES” then you needed to get a Wilson pro model major league glove. I started searching for the ad on the Internet in 1999 when I wanted to use it to make a point in Don’t Make Me Think , but I couldn’t find a copy until just a few months ago. The problem turned out to be defective memory. It actually wasn’t in comic books at all, but in Boys’ Life , the Boy Scout magazine.
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The guidelines are purposefully expressed as positive statements, so that when you feed the results back to the design team you can identify some strengths of the design before you launch into the problems.Forms can be found on almost every website; from contact or feedback forms in small websites to bank details in commerce websites, from registration to communication, from banking to searching. What we wanted to do, and why we wanted to do it At cxpartners, we have designed and tested numerous new and existing forms for websites from different companies. We use a set of golden rules that we use as a reference for form design that we have developed over the past six years. We wanted to validate these rules and seek further insights into various aspects of web form design. This lead us to carry out an eye-tracking study to observe how people react to different form designs, and to find out where users look when they are presented with a big list of text boxes.
Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study | cxpartners
20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design - Six Revis
As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users . Form , more than ever, has been superseded by function . The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and everything in between – all with the goal of enhancing the user’s interface. Boxes and Arrows is a peer-written journal and a premier source for information on interaction design, usability, and information design. You’ll find articles on designing a usable online email application to storyboarding rich internet applications .
Here’s an interesting UI concept that Quentin from TOKI WOKI sent me: fluid corners. Go ahead and view the demo here . I think the name isn’t quite right at communicating the idea behind the concept — something like elastic toolbars would probably describe it better. But whatever you want to call it, it’s a very smart way to help keep important controls visible on windows that get dragged partially offscreen.
usabilitypost.com | Design and usability blog
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.