User-centered design
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Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox, April 6, 2010: Summary: Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable.
Horizontal Attention Leans Left (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox, January 18, 2011: All 3 methods share one basic idea: there's no one perfect user interface design, and you can't get good usability by simply shipping your one best idea. You have to try (and test) multiple design ideas .
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It - Smashing Magazine
Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course.
iQ Blog - a blog about usability, accessibility and user-centred design
Mobile Thursdays is our weekly roundup of the latest (or most interesting) in mobile, curated by our very own Laurence Veale . We publish on a Monday, simply to rival Luke W . What’s it all about? They give you a card reader, and you scan your existing cards. Then you put the case on your iPhone4 / 4S. The case contains a proxy card, which replicates whichever card you’ve selected on the app.
Users pay close attention to photos and other images that contain relevant information but ignore fluffy pictures used to "jazz up" Web pages. Other types of pictures are treated as important content and scrutinized . Photos of products and real people (as opposed to stock photos of models) often fall into this category. I've spent countless columns ranting against the first type of images. Sadly, many websites are still more obsessed with showing off than with getting to the point. Visual bloat continues to annoy users : even with high-speed Internet connections and sub-second download times, users still prefer websites that focus on the information they want: