User Interface Design, Usability, Human Factors, & Ergonomics. The UX Bookmark. Johnny Holland. User-centred design. Current Issue. There’s one thing I’ve noticed in the 15+ years I’ve been practicing user-centered design and leading User Experience (UX) teams: one of the best ways to judge the experience of a User Experience practitioner is to assess the number and variety of the design solutions, or “tools,” they have available in their personal UX “tool belt.”
Usability problems come in many shapes and sizes, and the solutions need to be equally varied – seasoned UX professionals don’t often fall into the trap of thinking just because they’ve mastered a standard set of design “hammers,” that every usability problem they see is a “nail.” This being said, most of us User Interface (UI) designers have spent our whole careers using visual tools to solve usability problems.
Some of us have branched out to audio tools too, but the other human senses are rarely considered part of our practice. Haptic interfaces are nothing new. In fact, one of the first haptic interfaces was introduced in 1829 by Louis Braille. Usability Thoughts. Measuring Usability. Understanding Usability. UPA. Usability. Usable Web. LukeW. Useit. Orange Cone. UXmatters. UX Movement.
UX Magazine. UX Booth. All About UX. UXPassion. Boxes and Arrows. Konigi. Get Elastic. Smashing Magazine. User Centric. ExperienceLab. HCI Bibliography. Front End Development Guidelines. Accessibility What's Up, DOCTYPE?
The absence of a DOCTYPE is a crime punishable by death. You may have relied on the following DOCTYPE in the past, but it's important to know that this is now being superseded by a leaner and meaner snippet. Ideally, the HTML5 DOCTYPE should be used.