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32 days ago
design usability user experience
UX Killed Usability
Usability is dead (or at best on life-support and not conscious), and I’m sorry to be the one that has to tell you this, but it’s been mortally wounded by UX (aka User Experience).
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96 days ago
design internet usability
The High Cost Of Task Failure On Websites
Purchasing, reserving, comparing and communicating—Internet behavior is largely a goal directed activity. If a website doesn’t help users accomplish their goals then it’s unlikely users will return and refer their friends.
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155 days ago
accessibility design usability
Why good design matters to this blind geek
Accessibility has always been an essential element of how a well crafted website functions, but it is not and should never be considered in isolation. If accessibility ignores design, the design will fail to achieve its purpose. If design ignores accessibility and more so usability, the design will fail to achieve its purpose.
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327 days ago
readability usability user testing
Reliability and Dependability in Usability Testing
Usability testing is a form of user research, in so far as it allows you to make conclusions about a large population based on observations of a small sample of that population. Essentially, we try to assess our products’ suitability for our marketplace—as well as its usability for the population of interest—by testing it with a group of typical users.
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344 days ago
usability user testing
International Usability: Big Stuff the Same, Details Differ
User testing on 3 continents confirmed that the main usability guidelines hold worldwide, but many other considerations exist to better support international users.
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362 days ago
apps ipad usability
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing
iPad apps are much improved, but new usability problems have emerged, such as swipe ambiguity and navigation overload.
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387 days ago
customer usability
Customers That Click: Seven Key Questions To Consider When Building A Best Class Website
You want visitors to come to your website and click around, return, and tell their friends – right? It takes a better than average site to do that.
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402 days ago
usability user experience user interface
Less is not always More
..I have been noticing a very frightening tread. In an effort to make things more usable, we are designing interfaces without the very functions used to support usability in the first place…
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402 days ago
accessibility usability
Web Accessibility: 10 Common Developer Mistakes
The most common mistakes made in web accessibility have more to do with a failure to understand what constitutes accessible content than with a failure to understand the technology. In order to avoid gross web accessibility errors, understand one fundamental concept of web accessibility: What you see is not what you get…
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431 days ago
tips usability web design
The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website
Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn’t matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can’t quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere.
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431 days ago
testing usability user research
Form Field Usability: Avoid Multi-Column Layouts
When conducting user research on checkout usability we made an interesting observation in regards to form fields arranged in multiple columns.
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450 days ago
review testing usability
A guide to carrying out usability reviews
Usability reviews are a structured means of examining the usability of an interactive system by evaluating it against a set of recognized usability best practice principles.
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453 days ago
design usability user experience
UX: Even the best can get it wrong
The key areas, or “pillars”, of User Experience are: User Interface, Interaction Design and Usability. These three areas work together to create a good or bad User Experience.
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459 days ago
design usability user experience
Tips for Website Usability
Website usability is a popular concept among web designers. It is based on understanding, interaction with users and how to attract them to your website or brand in order to gain both search engine ranking and grow your business.
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459 days ago
usability user experience
Usability and the user experience
What’s the difference between usability and user experience? For me, user experience is the experience someone has when using a design. Usability is the extent to which the design provides a good user experience. Usability is often misunderstood to mean ‘ease of use’. It’s much more than this though.
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463 days ago
form login usability
8 Ways to Simplify ‘Sign In’
Sign in, or “login”, is vital for many web business since their entire userbase has to go through this step regularly. So here’s 8 ways to simplify your sign in process.
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463 days ago
mobile design usability ux
Mobile design, usability, user experience
A comprehensive resource about mobile design, usability, user experience
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464 days ago
usability user experience user interface
Traffic and websites
In this post I’m going to talk about road signs, traffic and their similarities with the user experience of websites.
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467 days ago
usability user experience design
Usability And You: The Design Process
Many people seem to see usability as an impediment to a smooth design process, as something that breaks up the workflow rather than complementing it and smoothing it out.
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479 days ago
mobile usability
Mobile Usability
In user testing, website use on mobile devices got very low scores, especially when users accessed “full” sites that weren’t designed for mobile.
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481 days ago
label usability
The curse of ‘click here’
The use of ‘click here’ is one of those bad design habits, like frames, flashing text and animated logos that I thought had died out by now.
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487 days ago
design usability user experience
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
3 methods for increasing UX quality by exploring and testing diverse design ideas work even better when you use them together…
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492 days ago
error management usability uxdesign
Well-designed error messages
Even if your form has been carefully designed with great user experience in mind, you’ll still need error messages as form-fillers are…well…only human.
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495 days ago
usability user experience user interface
The Dark Side Of Usability
…When the interface isn’t helpful, information is internalized by the user, meaning they have to think longer about the problem and learn more fully the inner workings of their task…
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495 days ago
blog tips usability
3 Tips to Improve Your Blog’s Usability
Having a usable blog means less frustration for your readers, which in turn improves their overall experience, user retention and conversions.
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495 days ago
colorblind usability
9 Percent Of Men And .5% Of Women Are Colorblind
The term color blindness is actually misleading. Most people who are “color blind” are not blind to all colors, but really have a color deficiency that makes it hard for them to see differences between some colors.
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495 days ago
data analysis usability
Making sense of the data: Collaborative data analysis
Teams that consistently turn out great experiences do one cool thing with data from user research and usability testing. They Talk To One Another. A lot. That’s the process.
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498 days ago
forms tips usability
10 Tips for Optimizing Web Form Submission Usability
There are several ways to make sure your web forms are optimized for your users. Here are some tips for making sure that your form submission process is user-friendly.
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513 days ago
testing usability
How many people cheat in online surveys?
Remote user research has increased the demands for people willing to take surveys, provide website feedback and participate in usability tests.
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516 days ago
guidelines usability
Uability Guidelines
MIT Usability Guidelines