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Designing “Shorter” Web Forms
Long web forms could be scary for users and they could encourage clients to fly away from your site. Although that, it is difficult to make them shorter, specially if you need all that information you are requesting.
The Usability Problems of useit.com
Jakob Nielsen has written some damn smart things about usability, and his work has probably done great things for the web in general. You hate to beat up on a guy like that, but c’mon, it is beyond ridiculous to me to be a self-proclaimed god of usability and have a site as awful as his. I’m not the first one to say it, and I won’t be the last. (Great article on a group makeover from 2004) People have been talking about it for years. Jakob even acknowledges it himself:
Common Traits of Bad Web Design
Lately I have been writing a number of articles that I would consider to be more critical thinking based, so I thought that it may be interesting to do more of an opinion piece. In the past the article I wrote about bad blog design was successful, so I felt covering web design in general could be helpful as well. It is important to note that in this article I am referring to “web design” as the whole process of creating a site, not just the visual aspect.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: About Us Information on Websites
We found a 9% improvement in the usability of About Us information on websites over the past 5 years. But companies and organizations still can't explain what they do in one paragraph.
Infinite Scroll jQuery Plugin, and wordpress plugin
Essentially infinite scroll is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page. A jquery plugin for developers, a wordpress plugin for bloggers, and a interaction design pattern for designers.
Mozilla Labs " Blog Archive " Introducing Ubiquity
Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements
One of the most important tools in a designer’s toolbox is whitespace. Whitespace is just that — it’s space between various content pieces, like paragraphs, headings, buttons and so on. This space can be tweaked to achieve different effects — such as to separate elements apart from each other by increasing the amount of space or group related things together by tightening it.
An Open Letter to You, Webmaster
I’ve recently been contacted by your customer with regards to my web services. They mentioned that they were unhappy with your work and would like for me to create a new website for them. I’m writing this letter to thank you!
The Function of Rounded Corners
What’s the function of rounded corners? We use them simply to add a bit of eye-candy and improve the overall aesthetic of our websites and applications, right?
Well, there is actually more to rounded corners than just appealing looks.
Creating Usable Website Navigation
A guest post by Nathan Beck on creating usable website navigation
An html form validator that will really do your validation
It is always hard to have a versatile form validater that will work for every website you do. With this one I think we are not far, you add a class on inputs needing validation, you are done.
Bored of you plain old css image hovering effect
Just add a class and this script and you got a fade in and fade out effect.
Links Should Really Look Like Links
As there haven't been any posts in the usability category of YOUmoz since March, I thought I write a short usability entry. You SEOs out there certainly know how a link should look like for search engines. But do you also know how they should look like for real people, I mean the ones visiting your page and spending money on your products?
WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins
In this episode of WordPress series we are presenting some basic and advanced techniques to create a more user-friendly and appealing archives page.
