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Category Archives: User Experience
First Impressions Through Visual Web Design
Monday, October 13, 2008
Within the first moments of encountering a Web page, people jump between the distinct visual areas of the page trying to get a sense of what they are looking at. To see this in action, just follow the blue dot in the eye-tracking video illustrated in figure 1. It shows a user’s eye movements through […]
How Usable is Your Copy?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
So how does copy impact usability? To answer this, let me first illustrate how people generally browse the web. It’s chaotic. We don’t tend to read everything that’s on a particular page. Instead, we scan the page very quickly, dashing from one point to another, trying to find what we’re looking for.
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Turn Inline Links Into Padded Blocks for Larger Clickable Areas
Friday, September 5, 2008
There’s a very quick usability trick you can do with the links on your site to make them easier to use. It’s something that I don’t see talked about very much, and a lot of sites don’t implement it. Link padding and blocks — that is, increasing the clickable area of your links to make […]
Firefox Proposal: A Better New Tab Screen
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Hierarchy - Design’s pecking order - Forum One: User Experience & Design Blog
Friday, June 27, 2008
Hierarchy. Strong, consistent visual hierarchy is key to a quality design.Q : What is visual hierarchy?A : Important elements have the most emphasis. Least important elements have the least emphasis. So, a user’s eye should move around the page from your most important content to your least important content.Q : Ok…I still don’t understand. How […]
Ajaxian » Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0
Monday, June 2, 2008
The folks at Y!DN have released Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0, which contains a full set of stencils that cover Web components in various states
Ajaxian » Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0
[Screens Around Town] Nivea, Newsweek, and “Yes to All” - (37signals)
Thursday, May 22, 2008
I saw the enclosed dialogue box on a colleague’s PC and thought that you might find it amusing.
[Screens Around Town] Nivea, Newsweek, and “Yes to All” - (37signals)
Outdoor pictogram headlines // Designing The News
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The idea would be that a simple application would pull headlines from the BBC News website, or any website, and seperate the headline into individual words. It would then check a database to see if there is a pictogram associated with that word and display it. This would loop for all words until the headline […]