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537 days ago
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Drop-Down Usability: When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use Them
Drop-down lists are great – when used correctly.
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542 days ago
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11 Principles of Interaction Design explained
This post isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list of interaction design principles, its merely an introduction to the subject. And I’m definitely not going to attempt to enter the lions den of defining what ‘interaction design’ is, that’s for another day!
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544 days ago
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User Experience and the Platform War
If there is one thing constant about the technology industry, it’s the fact that there is always a battle taking place. Whether it’s to dominate a platform or agree on standards, we are always evolving, and often debating over which direction is best. It’s imperative, however, that our focus on user experience not get lost in the crossfire.
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564 days ago
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How Users Read on the Web
In research on how people read websites we found that 79 percent of our test users always scanned any new page they came across; only 16 percent read word-by-word.
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565 days ago
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Beyond Frustration: Three levels of happy design
Happiness is a topic I’ve been interested in for a while. According to Darrin McMahon, author of Happiness: A History, happiness is a relatively new construct in the history of humanness.
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573 days ago
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The Dirtiest Word in UX: Complexity
You don’t have to be a UX practitioner to understand that simplicity is a good thing; no one goes around the office saying, “Alright team, let’s make this application really, really complex!”
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640 days ago
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The Anatomy of a Website
Many people find it hard to picture a website as more than a bundle of content. This often makes explaining the mixture of languages used and the way everything comes together a difficult task.