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862 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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865 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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865 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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865 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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865 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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868 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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883 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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886 days ago
guidelines usability
Uability Guidelines
MIT Usability Guidelines
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892 days ago
personas usability
Yes, you should be using personas
…Putting each function to the test using personas before letting it in the door is very helpful. Then giving features relative priority using the number and importance of personas who are using them helps guides the overall application or site’s design priorities…
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898 days ago
usability user experience
The big cost of small usability problems
User experience problems tend to be cumulative. Enough small problems can have the same effect as a few large ones – namely, causing users frustration and sometimes causing them to give up on your application or website. Crafting a good user experience requires finding and eliminating major usability issues, but less severe problems deserve attention too.
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903 days ago
usability usability testing
Usability testing is broken: Rethinking user research for social interaction design
When you look at what the social web is, there are some characteristics that I think we’re not taking into account very well in doing usability tests…
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912 days ago
applications usability
Five Usability Challenges of Web-Based Applications
Web-based applications present usability challenges we don’t often see in other types of designs. These challenges need to be top-of-mind as the design team creates, updates, and maintains the application.
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913 days ago
heuristic evaluation usability
Ten Usability Heuristics
These are ten general principles for user interface design. They are called “heuristics” because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines.
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913 days ago
heuristic evaluation usability
How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation
Heuristic evaluation involves having a small set of evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (the “heuristics”).
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933 days ago
colors usability
What difference does colour make?
Many organisations limit the success of their websites, purely because their branding guidelines do not provide enough colors for designers to utilize.
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942 days ago
a/b testing usability
A/B Testing: Usability From A to B
Usability is an often discussed part of design, but it seems to be very poorly understood. While most people understand the concept of usability, many people don’t know how to use it in their workflow, how to get started with their testing, or fail to see the benefits it has for them.
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944 days ago
form fields usability user experience
Form Field Usability: Matching User Expectations
Matching your customer’s expectations – even when it comes to the subconscious expectations of how wide an input field should be – is crucial if you want a user-friendly site.
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968 days ago
personas usability
User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models
This article is about the ingredients we can draw on when creating audience models and some alternative ways of communicating the results of an audience analysis.
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973 days ago
usability
Facilitating Usability Tests
In her Facilitating Usability Tests online webinar September 23, 2010, Christine Perfetti discussed her process for moderating usability tests and provided tips and best practices for facilitating a study.
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976 days ago
usability user experience
Improve Site Usability by Studying Museums
Using a website should be easy. It should be intuitive. We should know what button or link to click to get to where we need to be.
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977 days ago
usability user experience
Creating usability test tasks that really motivate users
The magic of usability tests is that you get to see what people actually do with a system (rather than what they say they do). This gives you great insights into how people behave and how to improve your design.
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977 days ago
usability user experience
To Usability Test…Or Not?
Sometimes conditions exist that can send tests awry.
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977 days ago
usability user experience
Usability v. User Experience
Right now, usability and user experience are all the rage, in the same way that Web 2.0 was several years back. I (used to) teach a series on User Centered Design where the focus is on the progression of design and development to create engaging and communicative web sites.
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980 days ago
application usability user experience
A Real Web Design Application
The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.
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980 days ago
usability
Does your website legally need to be accessible?
The other day I was asked the question “To what level does any website legally need to be made accessible?”
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990 days ago
axure prototype usability
How to create a predictive search prototype in Axure
Axure is a great application to use when mocking up interaction design concepts for usability testing…
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991 days ago
usability
Factors That Affect Usability
Usability is a study of human-computer interaction that helps designers analyze our users’ patterns as they use our creations.
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991 days ago
design usability
Decoupling Usability and Visuals
Design is often seen as a subjective and creative pursuit. I tend to agree, but feel that the more subjective and detached you are from specific strategic goals, the more problems will arise. If there’s any ambiguity regarding how something should be used and how visuals are incorporated to your advantage, you should expect a lot of waste.
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992 days ago
usability
10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
Sometimes you just want to get the information you’re after, save it and move along. And you can’t. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and again; usually almost every time you type your search keywords in Google.
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992 days ago
usability
Questions That Help Assess Website Usability
The level of usability on your website takes on a vital role when we’re designing for the end-user.