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If you've used the mobile social network Path recently, it's likely that you enjoyed the experience. Path has a sophisticated design, yet it's easy to use. It sports an attractive red color scheme and the navigation is smooth as silk. It's a social app and finding friends is easy thanks to Path's suggestions and its connection to Facebook. In short, Path has a great user experience.
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Usability 101: Definition and Fundamentals - What, Why, How (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word "usability" also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. There are many other important quality attributes. A key one is utility , which refers to the design's functionality: Does it do what users need?IHM
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Comment les internautes perçoivent-ils vraiment votre site web ? Ce livre de 326 pages d'études illustrées et en couleur vous aidera à mieux comprendre ce dont vos visiteurs ont besoin lorsqu'ils naviguent sur votre site. Des sites testés par des utilisateurs : Retrouvez dans ces études inédites leurs comportements face aux pages web, leurs remarques et leurs parcours oculaires ! Parmi les exemples étudiés : AFNIC, Allociné, Archiduchesse, CarriereOnLine, Challenges, CNC, Delamaison, Evene, Fluctuat, Fortuneo, Krys, La Chaîne Météo, Le Grand Robert, Le Moulin Roty, Okaïdi, ParuVendu, Saveur Bière, SeLoger, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Viadeo... On en parle dans ce livre : Affordances, Attention sélective, Banner blindness, Call-to-action primaire, Cut-off design, Design semi-élastique, Dette, Engagement immédiat, Loi de Fitts, Gestalt, Ligne de flottaison, Micro-utilités, Momentum behaviour, Rareté ...
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Steve Krug on DIY usability testing | Interview | .net magazine
This article first appeared in issue 215 of .net magazine - the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Every self-respecting web designer knows about Don’t Make Me Think , Steve Krug’s best-selling ‘common sense approach to web usability’. However, just a fraction of its readers seem to be aware of his follow up, Rocket Surgery Made Easy , the ‘do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability problems’, published last year. But Krug is on a mission.
This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. 2 Let’s start our journey by looking at the online tools such as Responsive Design Testing , Responsive.is , Responsinator and BriCSS . These pages let people check websites through a set of pre-built views based on various device sizes or orientations.
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