Jeshua Nanthakumar on the Behance Network UX Booth: User Experience & Usability Blog Top 10 UX Myths Al Gore invented the Internet. Drinking alcohol keeps your body warm. You won’t get pregnant if you stand on your head after … well, you get the idea. Myths are those hard-and-fast rules that often start as a plausible idea or once-off observation that grow and distill into ‘common knowledge’ as they virtually spread. I know I’ve believed a few of these. So, let me entertain you with a list I compiled of my favorite ‘User Experience myths’. Note from the Editor: Doug Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria and more, will be talking about UX at The Future of Web Design NYC. Myth #10: If the Design is a Good One, You Don’t Need to Test It This myth states basically that if you are experienced, and you know what you’re doing, then you won’t need to do any user experience testing. IDEO are known to create dozens of prototypes for testing during a product’s development. Myth #9: People Don’t Change OS X Preference window includes a how-to video on using the trackpad. View larger On simplicity:
The Portfolio of Brian Talbot, Web & User Experience Designer An Idea for a Digital Keepsake and Momento based on Real-World Activity As part of the Rails Rumble rules/tradition, teams of no more than 4 individuals have 2 days to create an app that leverages social media/3rd party data. With this in mind, the Spotcard team skipped formalities and identified simple use cases to help define an initial scope. We all loved Gowalla, the geo-location game/service, and wanted to leverage its rabid and physically active fan-base as well as its curated visuals to make something its users would value. The act of checking in somewhere signifies a user wants to mark this moment down for posterity and share with friends/family - there's another object that has done the same job in the physical world for decades, the post card. Why not try to marry the two together?
User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE 15 Valuable Usability PDFs You Never Heard Of Here’s a list of 15 valuable Usability Papers in PDF form that you might not have heard of, but should know and can use: I thought I’d list a few helpful papers I use from time to time when going about my usability work. Some of these you may have heard of, some not. I think you’ll find these very helpful from time to time. If you have a special usability PDF you find extremely helpful and it’s not listed here please do share them in the Comments (go ahead, share them right now), that way we can all grow smarter about usability together! I hope you find these helpful! Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines by the U.S. Usability.gov should be in any usability fan’s list. A Comparison of Questionnaires for Assessing Website Usability Assessing Website Usability by Tullis and Stetson, from the UPA 2004 Conference (2004) How well do web site usability questionnaires apply to the assessment of websites? Usability Issues in Web Site Design by Bevan, from the UPA 1998 Conference (1998)
Hansen – Portfolio Site | The Film UI and Screen Design work of Jayse Hansen Usability Testing: Top 8 Tips for Designing Usability Tests Usability.Edu: 25 Incredibly Useful Usability Cheat Sheets & Checklists | Designer City, USA Is your Web site primed for any viewer? How do you know? The nicest thing about a usable Web site is that it’s just a good thing to do for others so they can easily read your online information. The following list of cheat sheets and checklists are fairly recent; however, some older usability checklists are useful for older sites that haven’t been upgraded. 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website: Use this Smashing Magazine list to double-check your site’s usability before you launch.15 Valuable Usability PDFs You Never Heard Of: This list of usability papers in PDF format will put you well ahead of the pack.25-point Website Usability Checklist: A concise list of checkpoints to make sure your site is usable.Checklist for Usability Forms: This checklist is for HTML forms along with links to a few articles that are very helpful.Everyday Usability – 14-Point Checklist for Success: Kimberly Krause Berg from Cre8pc.com is convinced that a “tweak a day convinces visitors to stay.”
Kyle Thacker - Interaction Designer Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices Advertisement Structure and hierarchy reduce complexity and improve readability. The more organized your articles or web-sites are, the easier it is for users to follow your arguments and get the message you are trying to deliver. On the Web this can be done in a variety of ways. In body copy headlines and enumerations are usually used to present the information as logically separated data chunks. Search engines almost always use pagination; newspapers tend to make use of it for navigation through the parts of rather large articles. In most cases pagination is better than traditional “previous – next” navigation as it offers visitors a more quick and convenient navigation through the site. Let’s take a look at the good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented. Good Practices Of Pagination Design(7 Aspects according to Faruk Ates) Related References Mistake #1: Navigation Options Are Invisible A slider on Dirty.ru11 Gallery
Past issue - UI Design Newsletter Taking this need to create personas that represent real people, with all their quirks and eccentricities and also their varied professions, to an extreme, is the technique of Design for Extreme Characters. Djajadiningrat, Gaver and Frens, in their paper Interaction Relabelling and Extreme Characters: Methods for Exploring Aesthetic Interaction present the case of creating a persona and resulting scenarios when designing a PDA. The scenario may be very detailed in terms of lifestyle. Jack likes wearing Hugo Boss suits and driving his BMW. However, from an emotional point of view Jack seems shallow and completely out of touch with the real world — apart from work, Jack is always keen to go to his next appointment, he is never tired, never bored. And so they move away from 'nice and normal Jack' and instead create characters that have unusual occupations and also unusual emotional attitudes. The Drug Dealer The Drug Dealer is a powerful person who manages rather than commits crimes.
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