PR on Websites: Press Area Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/pr.html

info from Nielsen report on web design to get better PR results

More than 50 top notch courses that will help you become a better web designer.

Flashbulb Interaction, Inc. is a research, strategy, and design consultancy that works with clients to envision powerful and engaging user experiences for knowledge workers at the forefronts of their fields.

I really like the top navigation implemented on Vimeo.com. First time I saw it I wanted to recreate it. And this is exactly what I am going to do in this tutorial. What I like the most is the menu that drops down when you hover search box. It offers you different search options that you can choose and narrow your search.

角丸のスライドダウングローバルナビをCSSで作る。

"How then do you create an effective call to action? Here are 10 techniques which help achieve just that."

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete.

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete. But how do you encourage users to act? How do you create an effective call to action.

Apple을 비롯한 여러가지 업체에서 제공하는 UI가이드라인에 대한 정보

customising the CSS of websites using Stylish

Eigentlich nichts Neues, nur die Verweise auf die aktuelle Implementation in anderen Browsern sind relevant.

A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart.

A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart.

Walks through a few iterations of the Highrise conversion page, with interesting discussion illustrating some of the design decisions made.

Как и почему сделали новую версию.

removeClass("idleFie

Native UI widgets FTW!

Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia's idiotic philosophies.

Very funny list of gripes wth CS4

adobe製品のバグやUIの間違いをひたすら指摘。 ここまでやってくれるユーザーってなかなかいないのでは。

"Navigation is an important part of web design from a usability perspective. However, links and navigation menus also provide opportunities to improve the visual appearance of the site, or to add some interesting effects. If you’re looking to create a navigation menu that stands out from the crowd, jQuery provides plenty of options. In this post we’ll feature 25 tutorials that will show you how to jQuery and CSS to create some interesting effects."

モバイルサイトのユーザビリティ。PCより単純だけど、単純だから情報設計が難しそう印象。

普通に携帯サイト見てても気づくレベル。基本中の基本。こっから先が難しい。

Specific user experience patterns and their pros and cons.

By Steven Snell Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of

Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the website in question is an e-commerce website, a blog, a portfolio website, an information website for a service company, a government website or any other type of website, there is a significant need to communicate effectively with visitors.

methods, challenges, content, and tips.

In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users.

In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader user

Pesquisa recente feita pela WebAIM com usuários de leitores de tela

cool tool by J. Ambrose Little, needs Silverlight

The lesson, Marissa said, is that speed matters. People do not like to wait. Do not make them.

On the web, speed matters. I see it with campaigns all the time.

This conclusion may be surprising -- people notice a half second delay? -- but we had a similar experience at Amazon.com. In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue.

5o exemples de menus de navigation Internet de qualité

WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plug-in for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes.

WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes. * Create UI mockups in no time * Communicate your intent * Get feedback * Build better software!

an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes

googleblog

An eye tracking study from Google. However, please note that none of the searches are overly commercial in nature (no top position ads). In almost all G heatmap studies, they only show mostly information searches. Interesting data, but don't assume your ad will not get nice visibility for more commercial based searches.

Did you like it? So...

jQuery Price Format Plugin

Business, it's a different story, some (harsh) points made about corporate websites.

Yes! I think a free interaction gives the user experience that special edge.

"One free interaction" is a prospective design pattern that gives software and hardware a more humane feel. It exists outside of task flows and the concept of users as task-doers. Instead it sits in the "in between" spaces, suiting users as fidgeters, communicators, and people who play with things.

Very nice post from Chris Noessel of Cooper Design on the more subtle but no less brilliant elements of iPhone design, as well as other simple, pleasing software highlights

I flip page control on the home screen back and forth, for no apparent reason.

"Since we want our designs to be humane and, presuming they fulfill their utilitarian purposes well, emotionally satisfying, I suggest that designers begin to include one free interaction in their designs to enable the channeling of energy and simple expression."

wow Gold!

Highly recommended reading list of books on interaction design: http://tinyurl.com/cv8dyj

"95% of web users do not read 80% of your content. With these statistics already working against you, how can you improve your content to ensure that readers are getting the best user experience from your site?"

あなたのコンテンツを価値あるものにする11箇条

Writing for the web is a skill set of its own. Website text, or copy, needs to be written in a different tone for the web than a brochure. It needs to be

Mobile phone users struggle mightily to use websites, even on high-end devices. To solve the problems, websites should provide special mobile versions.

Comparison of the mobile web to what we use(d in 1998).

Some very very good insights here. Particularly about the 1st para and WHY it needs to be different.

"Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking."

The best readers are obstinate. They possess a nearly inexhaustible persistence that drives them to read, regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in

Some interesting web design thoughts - does bloggernacle design lead us to skim instead of read?

Hmmm, I haven't tried Balsamiq. Is it any good, I wonder?

from Inside Higher Ed by Steven J. Bell.

"Shift the focus from content to service and from information to people"

all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers. Delight and satisfy your visitors, rather than frustrate and annoy them, with smart design decisions. Here are 9 usability problems that websites commonly face, and some recommended solutions for each of them.

Quelques erreurs d'ergonomie à éviter dans la conception d'un site Internet

By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers.

Among designers, there are often discussions on the placement of actions in web forms that span several web pages. The quintessential question underlying this debate is: can an action that leads people to the previous step of a process be placed to the right of an action that leads users to the next step of a process?

previous next uie luke wroblewski

Prev & Next buttons... whats best and what isn't!

An article about html semantics and accessibility

"Recently my coworkers and I have been discussing HTML headings and heading hierarchy. This may not sound like something you need to spend a lot of time discussing, but there are some situations when it seems very difficult to find a solution without compromises."

Should logo be H1 and similar issues

If you can take a complex device or a piece of software and somehow rearrange, reorganize and redesign the interface to make it easy to use and understand, then you’re well on the way to delivering a better user experience.

schönes graues design

design of various objects

These are great principles of design. What a design should be.

Good design is…

browser compability

ギョウザビリティー

デザインやWFのチェックに

ウェブサイトでやってしまいがちなユーザビリティのミス

To read later.

Industry trends in prototyping Dave Cronin Cooper Get an e-mail update of new articles Comments (3) Created: 2 February 2009 User Level: All Products: Fireworks Prototype is one of those words that can mean something different to everyone. Before I get too far along in a discussion of prototyping, it's probably worth exploring what I'm talking about. In the world of designing interactive products and services, prototype is generally defined as some representation of a design idea. In the world of physical products, the term tends to connote something quite similar to the finished manufactured form. Indeed, industrial designers use the term model to describe what interaction designers think of as a prototype.

Fancy UI for displaying design patterns

Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer.

streamlined user testing idea

Bookmarklet

Bookmarklet para ler páginas ilegíveis

web kai print?

A brief, but well written overview of things to consider when selecting a CMS.

Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?

Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture. Along the way we’ll share some of the tweeters, books, and resources we found useful for budding information architects. Even if you’re familiar with the discipline already, you can probably pick up something you’ve missed.

toolkit audit IA

Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture.

In an information space, a human’s needs are simple and his behavior straightforward. Find. Read. Save. But once you get a bunch of humans together, communicating and collaborating, you can observe both the madness and the wisdom of crowds.

site with thousands or millions of people, how do you make sure you can keep track of the people you care about? Resolution: Create ways for people to identify, connect, and organize the people they care about, as well as the information those people produce. The complexity of relationship classification depends on how your customers will use your website.

Artículo de ALA exponiendo algunos patrones de interacción social de redes

Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we're left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we're trying to read. It's almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. It's a pretty awful experience. Our friend to date has been the trusty "Print View" button. Click it and all the junk goes away. I click it all the time and rarely print. It's really become the "Peace & Quiet" button for many.

A bookmarklet for stripping unnecessary fluff from web pages, and style the text as you want it.

An app that clears away all the clutter, leaving just the content.

Simple but useful checklist for websites. Certainly not a comprehensive list, but a good starting point.

8 CSS tips for better linking

It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as

It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as convenient for use as possible. In the following collection you’ll find some tips to make your links better looking and more usable.

Using breadcrumb trails is a fairly straightforward affair, and there are only a few guidelines to consider before deciding to implement them on a website. Let’s take a look at some common mistakes to avoid.

By Jacob Gube On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website

In this post, we’ll explain some Web typography terms and how they play into readability; we’ll present numerous tips to help improve the readability of your content; and we’ll showcase very readable websites, layouts and articles.

Good Call-To-Action Buttons

When designing call to actions on a website (one of the important factors that determine your website's conversion rate) what are the strategic considerations you should keep in mind.

How to do T&Cs

The bullet points on the side, which summarize the agreement are a great idea!

My classmate Noah passed along this terms of service agreement. It has two columns: legal English on the left, plain English summary on the right.

Terms of service formatted for maximum readability.

Awesome TOS? I like the summary.

Términos de servicio con una versión resumida legible.

To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible, such as books, or you'll be left

Another little gem for today. I love this site too. That CSS must have taken forever.

Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

Don't make response time too fast, though: the mouse should remain stationary for 0.5 seconds before you display anything that's hover-dependent, such as a mega drop-down or a tooltip. Violating this guideline will make the screen flicker insufferably when users move the mouse. Only after 0.5 seconds of resting the pointer on a navbar item can you assume that a user actually wants to see its associated drop-down. Thus, the timing should be: 1. Wait 0.5 seconds. 2. If the pointer is still hovering over a navbar item, display its mega drop-down within 0.1 seconds. 3. Keep showing it until the pointer has been outside both the navbar item and the drop-down for 0.5 seconds. Then, remove it in less than 0.1 seconds.

Summary: Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

Big, 2-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.

5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites

In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

an gi

As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are

See list of Prototyping Tools. Most are paid. Real tools are: 1. Axure RP Pro 2. RapidRabb.it The rest are BS i.e. Flex, Flash, Visio, Dreamweaver etc etc

Pretty interesting look at how Craigslist could be redesigned and retain its minimalism while being more usable and more attractive.

кейс юзабилити-переделки Craiglist. Почитать

Article about what OpenSource software generally lacks, and how to compete with them.

ever, users like know that there is someone who will be happy to help them out if they need it. That is the main purpose of offering customer support — decreasing the perceived risk of using your software by demonstrating that there is a safety net. (This is one reason you should write your support page with an eye to it being seen by someone who isn’t even using your software.)

2) Design OSS projects, particularly the 99% that are relevant to this discussion, routinely do not allocate resources to creating attractive designs. For whatever reason, opened source graphical work is still rather rare, most developers (myself included) have the artistic skill of inept mole rats, and the obvious pay-somebody-who-does-it-better solution runs into the problem that the typical OSS project has no budget and no patience to deal with “unfree” licenses, which are the only kind commercially available stock icons have.

" However, users like know that there is someone who will be happy to help them out if they need it. That is the main purpose of offering customer support — decreasing the perceived risk of using your software by demonstrating that there is a safety net."

Some good points, particularly on how OSS focuses on the software pitch too much (most folk don't think of their problem as a software issue)

Web design hints

Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can't predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text.

Un nuovo alertbox con i consigli del guru dell'usabilità

Beautiful Forms - Design, Style, & make it work with PHP & Ajax | Noupe

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some

10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see. The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used to offer users the dynamic interaction that they have come to expect from advanced, sophisticated, professional solutions. There have been plenty of posts on the number of awesome javascript, Ajax and CSS techniques and where to find them. Today, we will have a look at 10 creative & rich UI interfaces in modern day websites and how you can create similar interfaces using the techniques mentioned in this post.

Lista efektów jakie mogą być wykorzystane przy budowie strony.

パンくずいろいろ

7. Experimental Examples 実験的なパンくず

be clear with mission/goals/objective and scaled down ecommerce donation (when using 3rd-party payment, integrate it or users may get stumped)

Key factors: The organization's mission, goals, objectives, and work. How it uses donations and contributions.

"Non-profits would collect much more from their websites if only they'd clearly state what they are about and how they use donations. Our new usability studies revealed considerable frustration as potential donors visited sites and tried to discern various organizations' missions and goals — which are key factors in their decisions about whether to give money."

Jacob Nielson, online donations. See methodology notes.

new and hot bookmarks

Opera's April Fool's joke for 2009, they added "face gestures" to the browser. Similar to mouse gestures, it allows you to navigate the browser by making faces at it. "At the moment soul-patches crashes the browser and it refuses to relaunch, we are looking into this problem. Bushmen beards and emo haircuts are not supported."

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to go into Section 508 or the Rehabilitation Act or any of the rest of that stuff. It’s all about politics and has nothing to do with what I’m going to talk about.”

The issues of accessibility are a daily reality for my family. For us, it’s not a political issue at all. Our oldest daughter, Ramona, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around.

in which accessibility is about people, not checklists.

Accessibility is NOT a checklist. Accessibility is about usability.

Interesting opinion piece on the hazards of link shortening services - inserts an unreliable middleman in the standard web transaction.

All good points in here.

"We need to prepare for the day when N of the URL shorteners go out of business. When that happens a large part of the web will die. It will not be a good day." - Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/03/joshIsRightUrlShortenersAr.html

Why URL shorterners are bad for the Internet.

kindle usability useit.com kindlekindle

Summary: good for linear material, such as novels, not good for non-linear material such as journals, newspapers, encyclopaedias and recipe books

Summary: Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content.

Jakob Nielsen's review of the Kindle 2. "Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content."

As we see more and more businesses move their services online, and even more that begin their life on the Web, a greater need arises

design usability !!

construcción de paginas web para users

videos de socialmedia

"I always thought that the main navigation would be one of the most important elements of a website. I couldn’t believe it, so I set off to look for minimalist websites that didn’t use navigation. Sure enough, I found plenty." -- Dustin Boston

A link's first 11 characters are the most important, their impact should not be squandered with bland, generic words.

... shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.

This kind of information is useful to me as background to my understanding of digital literacy. Soon I can note it via Diigo, but not yet.

»Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.«

Questions the wisdom of allowing UI complexity of race cars trickling down to the consumer market. Wonder what fighter planes look like.

Gosh

エンジニアにもわかる「ユーザーインターフェース設計」 (Yahoo! JAPAN Tech Blog)

Diseño de sitios web

As a result of this, social networks should - I say should because not every social network does this - put greater emphasis on usability over, say, a corporate website. Don’t get me wrong, usability is important everywhere you go on the web, but the nature of a social network’s operation makes usability especially important. This perspective guided my thinking during the redesign of the Daily Challenge beta 2.0 website. Many forks in the road were put to rest at the hands of basic usability principles that dictated righter from wronger (sometimes there was no strictly right or wrong answer). These are the principles that I want to share with you in the following case study of how usability can be applied to a social network

This article presents further principles and rules that will help your site convert. Among other things, we cover A/B testing, footnotes, testimonials, feature lists, the sign-up process and typography.

7 useful tips the help your site convert. A great article from Smashing Magazine.

Good reference material on UIs. It's an often overlooked aspect to good design.

Tips and insights into good design and usability.

時々みなおすべき

サイト例多し。

Show this to Danny at work.

Design To Sell Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert

1. Subliminal Suggestion; 2. Prevent Choice Paralysis; 3. Show The Product; 4. Let People Try It; 5. AIDA; 6. Guide attention; 7. Always Provide Next Actions; 8. The Gutenberg rule

Navigation

Spoonfed Design is a blog for designers and developers to get inspired, learn new techniques, and pick up new ideas or resources.

hand drawing a UI

Simple concise flexible approach to drafting UI with pen and paper.

slide show about designing interaction.

You know you want to...

Great article about how good design really works

We’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.

Presentations, videos, photos

Short URL auto-discovery is a simple way to link a long URL with a short URL

Twitter clients and other consumers would load the URL that the user is embedding during posting time and check for the <link rel="shorturl" href="..." /> tag. If it exists the application should honor the href value and use it in place of the original URL.

Wie sollte ein benutzerfreundliches Dropdown aussehen? Mit Beispiel.

優れたユーザインタフェースを設計する際に考慮する8つのポイント

ユーザビリティ説明のサイト

これでテストケース引いたらコンスタントにいいものが作れそう

優れたユーザインタフェース設計するポイント

The gold standard in web headline concision

BBC News may be a good place to point to as an example of good writing for the web.

how short headlines explain a lot of info. Great for sci. articles

On-line UI testing tool

完了すべきタスクを設定したテストをユーザーに試してもらい達成率を統計するユーザーテストのウェブサービス。Yahooが使ってるらしい。

Templates for deliverables such as document starting points, element libraries and page libraries.

Lazy registration systems allow site visitors to build a profile and register without filling out a signup form right away (or some at all).

USABILITY TECHNIQUES SIMPLIFIED INTO 3 STEPS

Intéressant. C'est du connu mais un bon résumé d'ensemble. A voir pour un cours avancé sur les CSS ?

HOVER OVER TEXT

Internet advice

K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups. A lot of them seem to want to do a million different things because other companies have been successful at one of those things in the past. But that’s a bad idea. Way too many new products and services are too complicated. And I would suggest, often fail as a direct result of that.

A great article on simple design and how it just...works.

is that it was so much neater, cleaner — yes, simpler. But with an explosion in growth, came an explosion in features. And, in turn, an explosion in complexity.

K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups

I liked this article -- particularly the part about Google Labs (so true about how to add new features)

本格的にでかいサイトをやるときの理論武装

分厚いフッタの理由

コリスさん日本語訳。／元記事：http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/modern-sitemap-and-footer/

Search Result page

Googleが提供する「ウェブサイトオプティマイザー」を使って、複数の仮説から最適解を導き出し、最大の効果を獲得する方法をご案内する。

For membership-oriented websites, registration forms are one of the most important parts. A problematic experience, even if the sign-up is completed, will place a "question mark" to the visitor or vice-versa. Password LockAnd, it is also the first step where you can show that you care about the security of the website & all the data collected. Although you can control/improve the security of the website, it is sometimes the weak passwords used that may have unwanted consequences. Guiding users to have a strong password with the help of password strength meters, besides being an easy process, will help improving the security of the whole & show that the website pays attention to it...

The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

wordpress bloss fit für mobilde devices machen

Usabilla helps you to collect feedback from your users. We take a new approach to usability testing with transparency & visual feedback. We provide a tool to actively involve your users in the process of design & improvement.

Competitor to Chalkmark

Analysis is that oft-glossed over, but extremely important step in the research process that sits between observation (data gathering) and our design insights or recommendations. In many respects, analysis is crucial to realizing the value of our research since good analysis can salvage something from bad research, but the converse is not so true. This is where the literature tends to fall a little silent, jumping over the analysis techniques straight to a discussion of how best to document and communicate the findings from analysis. This article seeks to begin to redress that imbalance by breaking down the analysis black box into its major sub-techniques.

Great overview of analysis techniques for any type of data

Practices for Designing a Social News Website

news

A look at the layouts of several SN sites

JG: "Big picture essay by Steven Frank on the state of UI metaphors:"

discussion on the difficulties of changing the concept of the desktop metaphor, from Scott

"Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place."

Post Footer Designs

via:information Aesthetics

# Interactive HTML+JavaScript

Involution Studios

# Browser Application

i dont know if i get this entirely but its pretty to look at

Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across subsites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and clumsy UI mechanics prevent users from finding what they need.

Is your Web site primed for any viewer? How do you know? The nicest thing about a usable Web site is that it’s just a good thing to do for others so they can easily read your online information. The other side to usability is that it can increase your search engine standings so more people can find your Web site. The following list of cheat sheets and checklists are fairly recent; however, some older usability checklists are useful for older sites that haven’t been upgraded. You can find cheat sheets and checklists for forms, blogs and more below, all listed in alphabetical order. 1. 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website: Use this Smashing Magazine list to double-check your site’s usability before you launch. 2. 15 Valuable Usability PDFs You Never Heard Of: This list of usability papers in PDF format will put you well ahead of the pack. 3. 25-point Website Usability Checklist: A concise list of checkpoints to make sure your site is usable. 4. Checklist for Us

In eCommerce usability improvements usually have a huge impact on conversion reates. However, usability doesn’t only mean better visual guide or better site hierarchy. It also means a better communication with potential customers using a professional, trustworthy design, delivering the right information at the right time and communicating with users instead of throwing ad-slogans at them.

Un ejemplo interesante, a tener en cuenta, para el diseño de páginas web

Mouse gestures for jQuery. The madness..

pseudo itouch gestures

Jquery gestures

Mausgesten per jQuery erzeugen und einbinden.

Interview with 3 thought leaders in "pattern library" design tools, exploring what they are and how they're useful.

Pattern Languages for Interaction Design An Interview with Erin Malone, Christian Crumlish, and Lucas Pettinati

Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Css tips!

The beauty in CSS is that a tiny directive can make a huge difference in how the page displays. Here are seven quick CSS snippets that will give your website more “pop” and make your user’s experience more functional and enjoyable.

'While this is just one eye tracking study focused on a particular type of site, I think there are instructive nuggets here for any informational website.'

Some surprising results from eyetracking studies

Eye tracking studies have revealed valuable information about how people read and interact with websites. One study, Eyetrack III, published a summary of their eye tracking results for news sites. While this is just one eye tracking study focused on a particular type of site, I think there are instructive nuggets here for any informational website.

"Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0" is the first of a series of documents to help web professionals use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 to develop accessible websites. This document aims to provide web developers and others with practical advice about the preparation of accessible HTML forms. It compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0. I wish to thank Chris Bentley, Andrew Downie and Russ Weakley for their considerable knowledge and assistance in preparing this document. NB: This document is a work-in-progress. Please send feedback and any suggestions about errors and omissions to rhudson@usability.com.au Introduction Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) is primarily concerned with advocating the use of W3C Technologies such as HTML and CSS to prepare accessible websites. Version 2.0 of the Guidelines is technology neutral. That is, WCAG 2.0 does not explicitly relate to the use of

"Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0" is the first of a series of documents to help web professionals use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 to develop accessible websites. "

How to make your website accessible

Formularios accesibles

very good article

Obviously, I have lots of disclaimers: rules are made to be broken, different types of design work differently, and I don't always live up to my own advice.

Doporučení, která se týkají dobré navigace a používání webu

Rachel Nabors details how we can help user through navigation and contextual design.

nav flash graphic pimpsite

FlairBuilder is a cross-platform tool for rapid authoring of interactive wireframes and software prototypes.

To remedy this, we really need to find a way to show all of the necessary information on the checkout pages themselves. If you need to provide some help or information that doesn’t fit on the current page, use floating windows or, as a last resort, a pop-up window to display this. This allows you to present new material to the user without t

@tweetmeme @smashingmag Reading '12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process' http://tinyurl.com/re4b9j [from http://twitter.com/blvdstudios/statuses/1949157715]

Faceted search, or guided navigation, has become the de facto standard for e-commerce and product-related websites, from big box stores to product review sites. But e-commerce sites aren’t the only ones joining the facets club. Other content-heavy sites such as media publishers (e.g. Financial Times: ft.com), libraries (e.g. NCSU Libraries: lib.ncsu.edu/), and even non-profits (e.g. Urban Land Institute: uli.org) are tapping into faceted search to make their often broad-range of content more findable. Essentially, faceted search has become so ubiquitous that users are not only getting used to it, they are coming to expect it.

Discussed by Jared Spool, others on IxDA site

Provides 10 guidelines for web forms, based on eye tracking research

Guidelines 5 - Don’t use asterisks, make clear optional fields Guideline 6 - Use single field for numbers or postcode

Estudo sobre formulários online

Dilbert on User Experience

Dilbert on User Experience May 26th, 2009 by Harry Brignull • 8 comments A selection of Dilbert strips. Oldies but goodies…

A selection of Dilbert strips. Oldies but goodies…

I redesigned your website's front page, and I'd like to get your opinion.

"I’m a user interface designer. I travel sometimes. Recently, I had the horrific displeasure of booking a flight on your website, aa.com. The experience was so bad that I vowed never to fly your airline again. But before we part ways, I have a couple questions and three suggestions for you."

Time to let good people work : "Dear American Airlines, I re-designed your website", + fascinating response from AA -

The main function of a good user interface is to provide users with an intuitive mapping between user’s intention and application’s function that manages to provide a solution to the given task. Basically, user interface describes the way people interact with a site and the way users can access its functions. In fact, usability is a biproduct of a good user interface and it determines how easily a user can perform all of the functions provided by the site. Usability is a crucial part of every design, especially on websites with a large amount of functions and users.

crucial features of the user interfaces of social media and social networking sites

Sosyal ağ sitelerinin 9 çok önemli kullanıcı taraflı uygulamaları. Normal sitelerin örnek alması gerekiyor.

Whether it’s your portfolio, a blog, a marketing web site, or a collection of games, we all want to attract visitors to our website and to ensure that they have a pleasant experience. Usability measures the level of a user’s experience and can be characterized by how easily a given task can be completed; whether it’s done with prior knowledge, or by having the user learn a new way to interact. I think Jakob Nielson probably explained it best when he said: “Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word “usability” also refers to methods for improving ease–of–use during the design process.” In this article I hope to give you some form of a usability checklist, covering topics from form design to simple navigation tips that you can apply to any Web project.

10 Tips to Create a More Usable Web

for future exploration

But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like. I'm referring to the new kind of brand, the one is formed by the entire experience of a customer's interaction. That experience gets branded into his or her memory and leaks into the buzz of modern culture. via Caitlin

UX guy reprints email and then attempts to address corporate culture issue; strong opinions follow but most compelling part is the insight from the AA.com UX guy himself (known as Mr. X) "But—and I guess here’s the thing I most wanted to get across—simply doing a home page redesign is a piece of cake. You want a redesign? I’ve got six of them in my archives. It only takes a few hours to put together a really good-looking one, as you demonstrated in your post. But doing the design isn’t the hard part, and I think that’s what a lot of outsiders don’t really get, probably because many of them actually do belong to small, just-get-it-done organizations. But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like."

complain about a corporate website then get surprised to hear about how design under corporate politics work? hm.

"There's a common attribute that makes for good designers, good engineers, good employees, and good companies. For a long time, I couldn't figure out what it was. Was it practice? Was it skill? Was it innate ability? Turns out, it's none of those. It's taste."

The templates are derived from the User Experience toolkit I designed for the DUX team at Provoke. So we’ve given you the basic tools - it’s now up to you to do the magic with the actual user experience.

By Zef Fugaz. [November 21st, 2008]

digg_url = 'http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/how-self-defeating-corporate-design-process-one-designer-finds-ou'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Designer Dustin Curtis was so disgusted with the American Airlines Web site that he redesigned it, and posted the results as an open letter to the company.

unread

Wherein we are told—or reminded—that the smallest amount of empirical data from real users quadruples the probability of being right.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

"Microcopy is small yet powerful copy. It’s fast, light, and deadly. It’s a short sentence, a phrase, a few words. A single word. It’s the small copy that has the biggest impact. Don’t judge it on its size…judge it on its effectiveness."

Microcopy counts

The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing.

IAApps.com continues to grow, with visits increasing 51%! Check-out our constantly expanding wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and screen capture sections and leave a review of your favourite app!

Great read on conversation

Integrate and improve SEO and website usability (using web analytics) and create a synergy that will improve the conversion rates of websites.

slick way to create new documents quickly

Skript, dass das Erstellen neuer Dokumente über Drag & Drop im Finder bzw. über das Dock ermöglicht

create template docs put them in folder lock folder drag folder to dock drag out new template file when necessary -- it'll be copied, not moved.

Usability analysis of various methods of creating new documents on various OSes, culminating in a remarkably elegant way of improving this in Mac OS X using currently-available features of the OS!

"There is a very basic problem with this arrangement: How do you _create_ new files? On the one hand, since you use the Finder to manage your files, it would make sense to create new files in the Finder - right where you actually want them. On the other hand, since each individual application typically has at least one unique type of file, the Finder can't create new files - only individual applications can."

ユーザーがどこを見ているか、その視線を追うことができるアイトラッキングシステムですが、それを使った実験の結果がまとめられていました。ウェブを作る際にどこに気をつければ良いかがわかって参考になりますね。

アイトラッキングシステム。それを使った実験結果のまとめ。

フッター

Comprehensive User Interface Design Pattern Library

Use it better is an online tool for testing & analysing user experience and usability on Adobe Flash Websites

“We always use a real person—someone we know personally—as the example user for each persona. It’ll be a friend or a friend of a friend, but it’s someone we can call and ask questions. That detail really helps make each persona more real and approachable to everyone on the team.”—Todd Zaki Warfel

from Please Enjoy - The Work of Ji Lee

what is a browser ? - street survey

50 random people in NY don't know the difference between a browser and Google.

read it

The vast majority of people have no clue what a web browser is. (Ergo, the vast majority of people are quite stupid? I'm tempted to say yes.)

A 404 error on the web is what a web server responds with when it is tasked with serving up a resource that it can’t find.

Why attractive things work better

The visual aesthetics that frame and define content are much more than simply a “skin” that we can apply or discard without consequence. Users react in fast, profound, and lasting ways to the aesthetics of what they see and use, and research shows that the sophisticated visual content presentation influences user perceptions of usability, trust, and confidence in the web content they view

User interface experts are often suspicious of the role of visual aesthetics in user interfaces—and of designers who insist that graphic emotive impact and careful attention to a site’s visual framework really contribute to measurable success.

Best Practices and Solutions | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine. A module tab is a User Interface (UI) design pattern where content is separated into different panes, and each pane is viewable one at a time. The user requests content to be displayed by clicking (or in some instances hovering over) the content’s corresponding tab control.

discussion of the use of module tabs or subtabs within a page

The most extensive post I've seen on Tabs, ever. Well done SM.

Module tabs are seeing an increase of use as websites and web applications push for optimizing web page screen areas without sacrificing the amount of information presented at once. For example, in weblogs, they are used in secondary content sections (such as the sidebar) to present relevant and interesting information such as a listing of blog posts which users can interact with to get to web pages quicker. This inevitably allows for an unobtrusive and compact manner of presenting content. This article discusses the use of the module tabs design pattern for use in websites and web-based applications. We share with you some best practices to consider when using module tabs, a listing of real-world examples of websites the take advantage of module tabs, as well as tutorials and free downloadable scripts for building and deploying module tabs in your sites.

Advice about how masking password entries can reduce usability and increase user error and frustration.

Jakob comes out against password masking

More importantly, there's usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website. It's just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue.

Got to agree with Jakob here. Seing *****'s as you type your password just leads to mistyped passwords

Can I get an Amen?

I question the overall security of an app if the input isn't masked. Logically, he makes sense, but users aren't asking for it. Leave it be.

Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website's interface easier to use and simpler to

site usability tools

'If Joomla! is Linux, then WordPress is Mac OS X. WordPress might offer only 90% of the features of Joomla!, but in most cases WordPress is both easier to use and faster to get up and running.' Over the course of the last few years, I've been in c

Web company WireLoad shares their experience and tips and tricks for the internet-age business world.

いつかこだわりのフォームを作ってみたい。

Good reading material

Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there's a lot to keep track

search ebooks free

ux links

User Experience Resources: Books, blogs, publications, etc.

Mac OSX Swiss Army Knife

Get anything anywhere via the doc.

FTP だったり、Flickr に写真をアップロードしたりその他諸々。

The 3-click-rule is the Freddy Kreuger of web design advice. You think it’s finally dead and then it comes back and starts slashing up sensible debate about usable design. I’m hoping to convince you to stop talking about the 3-click rule. I don’t mean substituting it with the 4-click rule or the 5-click rule. You should stop counting clicks as a measure of usability altogether.

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website accessibility tools

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review. —  DAVID TRAVIS, JULY 6, 2009

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review. — David Travis, July 6, 2009

Creating a wireframe is one of the first steps you should take before designing a website. A wireframe helps you organize and simplify the elements and content within a website and is an essential tool in the development process.

Infromación para generar wireframes, muy utiles para los proyectso web...

visto en el twitter de torresburriel

How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split Testing

A fantastic piece that gets to the heart of the problem with WA: its UI provides only unreliable affordances. To make the best use of its great computational engine and data visualisation parts you essentially have to learn the idiosyncrasies of an incredibly complex and unpredictable front-end.

"Like most hubristic UIs, Wolfram Alpha is operating with a completely fictitious user narrative."

web design navigation. core nav, doc nav, classification path etc

The Unlimited Freelancer

iPhone style password input. implemented by duplicating the password field to a text field to have control of the contents.

Hey RIA and web vendors: how can your tools let people do this kind of experimenting?

You should follow me on Twitter

Experiment on increasing CTR to your twitter page

Experimenting with different phrases.

"Many people in the usability community regard Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition as the laypersons usability bible. This book explains briefly and concisely everything one needs to know about getting started with web usability. For more advanced users, it’s a great refresher course."

Korte samenvatting van het boek "Don't make me think!" van Steve Krug (aanrader)

Enemies of usability claim that because "the experts disagree," they can safely ignore user advocates' expertise and run with whatever design they personally prefer.

mouse tracking tool

Sistema basado en Javascript para guardar el rastro del ratón del usuario al pasear por tus páginas.

When presenting any kind of information on a page, avoid overwhelming your visitor with too many choices. Its best to use no fewer than 3 and no more than 7 groupings of elements.

The Art Of Applying Rule Of Five Plus Or Minus Two For An Effective Wireframe |

Great read for iPhone App Designers

He believes it’s because people are afraid if they click a link that says “Free Trial” then they’ll somehow automatically signup for something and be trapped. However, “See Plans and Pricing” encouraged them to explore, without the fear of commitment.

See Plans and Pricing

ThinkVitamin - Carsonified's blog about the web

Using Wikis in Project Planning

For people who make things for people who use things...

It’s no surprise that marketers use faces to draw people into their websites. They know that, from birth, humans are naturally attracted to, and engaged by, faces. In fact, one of our studies showed that people perceived websites as more “professional” when they had images of people on the site. Be careful! Simply picking a “pretty” picture isn’t enough. Too often marketers will take people pictures and show them to a focus group to see which ones they relate to best. As marketers, we worry about the gender, style and overall quality of the picture relating to our message. There’s another crucial factor for marketers to consider: The direction in which the model’s eyes are facing. Generally, it’s best when the model faces the content you want visitors to engage with first. Take a look at the landing page below (I’ve blurred the text to protect the guilty innocent): landing page face away full What happens is that you are naturally drawn to the image of the attractive model and our

a technique that uses information collected on an individual’s web-browsing behavior, such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made, to select which advertisements to display to that customers.

Interesting article with a fresh look towards user expirience on the desktop

Velocity Conference.

Stats on how much users choose to leave a page as load time increases

Awesome study -- everyone knows speed is "good," but this quantifies it.

We work at the sausage factory, so we know how this stuff is made. And it is not pretty. Most software is created by bad programmers like us (or worse!), which means that by definition, most software sucks.

"One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really hate it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you've ever met, multiply that by a thousand, and you still haven't come close to how we programmers feel about software. Nobody hates software more than software developers. Even now, writing about the stuff is making me physically angry. "

Accessibility is commonly touted via some text and a small hyperlink that leads to Section 508 at the bottom of a web page, a practice which upholds the spirit of the law. It usually reads something like this: “We are committed to making our site accessible and continue to test and modify the site for accessibility. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any problems accessing any of our content.” Some quick accessibility checks reveal that many site owners and developers consider the second part of that statement a convenient “get out of jail free” card. Developers sometimes think that using standards-based development principles, separating presentation and behavior via external CSS and DOM-based scripting techniques, and applying alt attributes to images creates Section 508 compliance. They don’t want to spend more effort on accessibility until they get feedback from users who have problems with the site.

"In universal design, perceived affordance—that is, the implicit understanding of how to interact with an object—actually coincides with the user’s ability to execute the action. Universal design is, therefore, inherently accessible." - yes!

Setting up an A/B testing environment using Google's Website Optimizer and Wordpress

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there.

A rather nice looking zoom tool using jQuery and CSS.

Clever little jQuery plugin for magnifying images and text

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it.

a sexy, non-reversible live visualization of password field input

Creates a color-bar visualization of the password field useful to avoid mistakes and non-reversible.

a non-reversible live visualization of password field input

With the surprising success of Weightbot, it was only a matter of time before we would take on the challenge of outdoing ourselves. We knew people were expecting something big from Tapbots the second time around so what’s more impressive on the iPhone platform than a unit converter? Pretty much anything. In name alone, Convertbot is probably the last application people would expect to see from us. But the truth is, converting units, while extremely ordinary, is a very useful utility for many people. And while there are countless feature-rich unit converters for the iPhone, none of them make the task any more enjoyable. So it really was the perfect robot for us to build. I just wanted to spend a little time writing about how Convertbot came to be. Getting Started The first step was to set up the groundwork for the application. What is the primary purpose of this application? Who is the target audience? What are the bare minimum features this app needs and what features can we add that

The design process of a well-designed iPhone app

Free Web Resources Everyday - WebResourcesDepot

E-commerce has its own dynamics when compared to the standard shopping experiences. It: * is faster * requires collection of data * includes shipping more frequently * has different ways of supporting users * & more.. E-Commerce Tips If the product sold is not something unique, then it probably exists in 100s of other e-commerce websites. So, to differentiate your stores from others, here are 13 tips for a better e-commerce website:

Over the past few weeks we’ve been showcasing some amazing articles, tools, and videos in our Resources section. Our twitter followers have gotten a taste of these resources and have let us know they are really enjoying them! Today I would like to share some tools with you that focus on accessibility, a very important sector of user experience.

by Nicholson Baker

ANNALS OF READING about the Kindle 2. The writer ordered the Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could he not? Everybody was saying that the new Kindle was terribly important. Writing and publishing, wrote Steven Johnson in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, would never be the same. In <i>Newsweek…

Crowdsourced usability tests for your own designs

Digital designers advice on going into the field ...

A series of short video posts giving designers advice - many prominent people in the field...

'she sought out the advice of digital designers and designer conspirers far and wide, to ask them to respond to the following: "So you’re thinking about becoming a designer? If I could tell you only one thing about going into the field, my advice would be ___________ ."'

The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox - a good source for Social Networking on Intranets

Social software is not a trend that can be ignored. It's affecting fundamental change in how people expect to communicate, both with each other and the companies they do business with. And companies can't just draw a line in the sand and say it's okay for employees to use Web 2.0 to communicate with customers, but it's not okay to use it when communicating with each other; Philips case study...

uccessful social media initiatives at many companies emerged from underground, grassroots efforts

"Perhaps more than any other corporate intranet innovation, social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration — and at times filling them before the (usually slow-moving) enterprise can fully grasp (and control) the flow." Also as I've said main times "But in truth, social software isn't really about the tools. It's about what the tools let users do and the business problems the tools address."

sigh, I've been meaning to do this

This is a simple plugin that turns properly formatted HTML forms into forms with in-field label support. Labels fade when the field is focussed and disappear when text entry begins. Clearing a field and leaving brings back the label.

a good resource to stop by, when thinking about changes in your user interface.

social media antipatterns and fuckups

The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)

Designing and building a successful social website or application is no mean feat. Adding a social dimension to an existing experience is trickier still. Nevertheless, the skills to do so are well worth cultivating, as the ubiquitous, pervasive, massively interconnected world of the Internet and allied digital networks, such as mobile SMS (short message service) connections, have unlocked a growing panoply of opportunities for social relationships, remote presence, real-time interactions and the capacity for self-organized groups of people to coordinate their behavior and collaborate on changing the world.

Five Principles Of the myriad principles we've unearthed so far, five cut across the entire experience: Pave the Cowpaths Talk Like a Person Play Well with Others Learn from Games Respect the Ethical Dimension

Hot Gloo is designed by IA's for IA's. With the help of the elements you can create a whole world out of wireframes. Just drag and drop, scale, link, name and rename them - it's super easy and intuitional.

Sitio para hacer wireframes

Para hacer wireframes de sitios web

Nine Essential Characteristics of Good UX Designers

What makes a good UX Designer / Information Architect

Nice technique to use on labels in forms.

nline labels are nothing new – in fact the easiest way to label a field is to simply set the field value up front and blow it away when the field gains focus. Easy, right? But what if the browser focuses on the first field right off the bat...what field is it? The label is gone, so to find out what we're supposed to type we have to switch out, then back...what a terrible interaction! This little jolt could be the difference between a conversion and an abandoned form. Happily, there's a better way.

nterface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed. I’ve spent the past year redesigning a particularly complex application with my primary focus being on reducing complexity. In this article, I’ll go over some of the issues surrounding complexity and techniques that can be used to manage it.

Presentations, Keynotes, and Interviews with 37signals

Article by Christopher Detzi. As web designers and information architects, we often dismiss deep consideration of content when we design interactive experiences.

Finally, a conversation about content...

"It’s impossible to fully evaluate the effectiveness of a web experience without having the content represented and under the same microscope as the design"

great presentation slides.. very valuable!

Presentation by Joshua Porter. "each part focusing on a specific problem in software. Each problem is a major hurdle in what I call the usage lifecycle, or the stages people go through as they use and adopt software over time."

Social Web Design by Joshua Porter

software de prototipos de software

Quick Wireframe Prototype ForeUI can rapidly create wireframe prototype of your software or website by dragging predefined elements to the plot. You can also customize your own elements. More...

EaSynth ForeUI is an easy-to-use screen mockup tool, you can use it to create prototype of software or website.

原型制作工具，比较有意思

Хороший шаблон для составления персонажей.

About personas

UI

Muy importante, leer detenidamente

User-centric web design is a method of web design where the content, design, and usability factors are all placed in accordance to the target audience’s needs and goals — a design that is centered around the user. This article will cover the basics of what user-centric web design is, and how to achieve it.

iPhones fly off the shelves despite being difficult to learn. Why? Because they let you do what it says you can do and they make you happy while you do it. This proves that my job as a user experience designer has evolved rather than simply changed. While it’s still my responsibility to prevent things from sucking, now it’s also my responsibility to add a little playfulness. As Kim Goodwin said in her Interaction09 keynote, we have a limited window in which to prove how valuable design can be to business. There are three ways in which user experience designers can learn to incorporate play into the systems they design. Experience and Research Play You can’t build playfulness into your designs without experiencing playfulness yourself. Play games and pay attention to what makes them fun. For example, the only rule in the card game Fluxx is that the rules constantly change. Completing a level in Peggle gives you the “Ode to Joy,” rainbows, unicorns, and fireworks!

responsibility

Very thorough and insightful article about the direction of UI and UX in software. This is about the iPhone, but the lessons are universally applicable.

To some extent, you need not make things not suck if you can make them fun. The Mary Poppins Principle as a new model for user experience design.

Software user interfaces as games, with focus on iPhone usability.

In this article, we'll go over some web design tips for designing homepages and uncover some of the vital steps required to construct a powerful and successful front page.

from Twitter

We’ve come a long way on the web today. Or have we? While we’ve innovated in many areas, we’ve also continued to disregard pre-existing issues. And in some cases, we have also created new ones. Here is my list of the top 65 most annoying things about the web today. They’re in no particular order, but I have organized them into what I consider core groups.

Visual design is more than styling. It is function.

Importance of aesthetics

Bad: We lost the sense of news that "announcing" implied in the previous version. Because many companies molest their poor followers with repeat postings about the same event, users have become somewhat hardened against event promotions.

A really awesome post about iterating a punchy, credible, and viral TWEET announcement.

NN Group on iterative design of Twitter posts. "The shorter [the text] is, the more important... to design text for usability."

How to Create Totally Secure Cookies

Securing cookies and sessions is vital to keeping an application secure. Many tutorials have been written on the subject, but as the internet (and browsers loading it) evolve so do the methods you can use to keep your application secure. In this article we’re going to break down the various components of a cookie and what they mean for security. This will include limiting the cookie to certain domains and paths on those domains, choosing what information to store, and protecting the cookie from cross site scripting exploits. In a second article we will go into more depth in how to protect everyone’s favorite cookie, the session ID.

Continuing on my series of answering common questions I have created a post list user experience publications. This is a question that keeps coming up in discussion is about User Experience resources, specifically about publications. So here is a list of industry publications which I read on a semi-regular basis, most of which I subscribe to their feed or email newsletter. I am hoping you find these useful.

10 mitos da experiência do usuário

"I had originally planned to do a post detailing the design of Convert… from my assy “programmer mockup”… until the finished app. But I figured that this would be much more fun and 1000x less long-winded" Nice to watch this ... the familiar practice of feeling your way around interface design, like drawing.

"What happens when you stick a few people who can’t agree on anything at first… but later agree on everything… in a virtual room to do some app design? "

A evolução de uma interface para iphone. via @blude

A great blog about the iphone.

If you want to have high performing web pages make sure that you: 1. Have a clear understanding of what the purpose of that page is and 2a. a clearer understanding of what drove customers to the page and 2b. what they want to accomplish to ensure that 3. #1 and #2 are in alignment. Glory will be yours!

A very detailed article with links to all relevant tools for finding out how to improve conversions, what people are looking for on a website, where do they click etc

@newsycombinator: "Fixing high bounce / low conversion web pages http://bit.ly/2a3dac" (from http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/3552641894)

Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages http://ff.im/-7bWJl (via @vousa) [from http://twitter.com/mikkokiviniemi/statuses/3560410527]

I like to read articles on webdesignerwall.com. Not just because of its content, but also because of its great design. I like one simple effect this blog has and that is a zoom icon that is being shown when you hover an image. In this simple tutorial, I'll show you how to do it in two ways: CSS way and jQuery way.

Facebookにて取り組んでいるWebデザイン手法

Facebook er godt design på sin egen skumle måde

We are focused on one thing — delivering the latest in new website launches to people that are interested in and passionate about them so their owners can get the feedback they need to succeed

Launch your website in a forum dedicated toward launches. How meta.

by LukeW, author of "Web Forms" from Rosenfeld media

Real-time inline validation can help people complete web forms more quickly and with less effort, fewer errors, and (surprise!) more satisfaction.

....en hoeveel % conversieverbetering het oplevert!

for unlnown items (is this username taken?) validate fields as the user proceeds from one field to the next

There are some simple steps you can take to create the best bridge possible between you and your clients. The most obvious way to receive that feedback is through a contact form. It is an essential component for owners of websites. It creates a channel to hear feedback, suggestions, and even sell services.

review of hundreds of RIAs while compiling examples for our book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, and subsequent talks and articles.

SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers

some colour review tools for websites

If you are designing, or re-designing your web site, it is time well spent running your website through the color accessibility tools below to ensure that your site can be seen correctly by as many people as possible. Most of these tools use WC3 guidelines to perform their various operations. If you can actually read and understand them, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requires, amongst other things, that there is sufficient contrast between text and background color. For a person with a color disability, the colors used on a web site can mean the difference between being able to read text and images or not. 1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency.

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of User Interface Design UI Trends (uitrends.com) is intended to be 1. a dynamic light-weight repository for interesting user interface designs and trends for website and web applications 2. a place to comment on and discuss user interface designs and trends 3. a source of inspiration for designers and developers

site where you can vote up or down a trend in ui design

Websites that let users customize the UI have the same measured usability as regular sites. Sites for customizing products, however, score substantially worse due to complex workflow.

How come you can recognise the tune of the number one song of 1968 as being Hey Jude by the Beatles, but not the number two song? Why has the iPod had the success that the Zune has been denied?...

Joel Spolsky's talk at Business of Software 2008 on being number one

Evil Rich has some helpful tips.

ショッピングサイトは扱っている商品やマーケティングはもちろんですが、デザインやインターフェースの使い勝手なども、売り上げにつながる大きな要素なのでは無いでしょうか？

ショッピングサイトをデザインする際に参考にできそうな使えるサイトをいろいろとまとめてみました。

Muy interesante sobre como hacer atractivos los botones de las páginas Web

Forms can be painless or painful for visitors. Keep in mind that visitors want to get their tasks accomplished as quickly as possible, and with the least amount of effort. Proper planning and design can maximize task efficiency.

ver?

helpful.

Checklist For Better Forms

Ben Tilly presentation on A/B Testing. From start to extracting conclusions.

Enough samples is at least 10 yes and no results in each test

(via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/13/effective/">Simon Willison</a>)

By Ben Tilly.

Good navigation gets you places. More importantly, good navigation gets you places without a headache. Even though there are certain exceptions, most websites would be dead in the water without sensible navigation between pages.

navigation usability inspiration

It's easy to bias study participants, whether in user testing or in card sorting, if they focus on matching stimulus words instead of working on the underlying problem.

"I usually say user testing is easy: basically, you get some real customers and watch them use your site or app. But this article touches on one of the difficulties of running great studies: minimizing bias. To achieve this, you have to see how people behave on their own rather than impose your own thinking on them. In the latter case, they simply echo it back, and you don't learn how to improve your design for real-life use...."

how to (and how not to) pose the problem in useability testing

Found through Daring Fireball

You’ll also notice there are two arrows pointing out from “Submit email matching a user account” under the “Forgot password screen.” That’s because two different screens result from that action! Yo

save

nice article on how to shift to a UX mindset

Make users learn by doing what they came to do

Info to ask before creating a website

Unresolvable

Great list to use before designing a website.

# How many times a month would we like people to come by? For how long? # Who needs to update this site? How often?

Simplicity in Good Web Design

Provided some examples of simple website designs.

Simplicity in website design doesn't necessarily equate with a minimalist design aesthetic. Simple sites just remove all unnecessary elements from the design,

Users hate change, so it's usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually. In the long run, however, incrementalism eventually destroys cohesiveness, calling for a new UI architecture.

to redesign or not to redesign...that is the question.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

Jakob Nielse advocates for design that relies on what you have.

But sometimes, it makes sense to think of the real world as an interface. To design user interactions that make use of how people actually see the world -to take advantage of first person user interfaces.

Do you suspect a programmer may have put together the terrible user interface on that “enterprise” software you’re forced to use every day? There are some give-away indicators. Look out for them in your software, hunt down the developer and force them to read a book about user interface design. If you’re suitably senior, force them to a) improve it, or even better b) get someone with real UI experience to fix it.

"Do you suspect a programmer may have put together the terrible user interface on that “enterprise” software you’re forced to use every day?"

ideas for design

Research shows that poor product information accounts for around 8% of usability problems and even 10% of user failure (i.e. the user gives up and leaves the website) (Prioritizing Web Usability).

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is one of the most subversive, provocative video games of recent years. It may also be one of the most important, not because of its content but because of how it is delivered.

Here's a list of 15 valuable Usability Papers in PDF form that you might not have heard of, but should know and can use:I thought I'd list a few helpful papers I use from time to time when going about my usability work. Some of these you may have he

I have to check these.

In this column, I’ve presented five best practices for designing filters for faceted search results. Of these, I think the first—choosing either drill-down or parallel selection—is the most important. If you choose your filter value-selection paradigm correctly, you are already half way there.

Five best practices for designing filters for faceted search results. Of these, I think the first—choosing either drill-down or parallel selection—is the most important.

Recently, Office Depot redesigned their search user interface, adding attribute-based filtering and creating a more dynamic, interactive user experience. Unfortunately, Office Depot’s interaction design misses some key points, making their new search user interface less usable and, therefore, less effective. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the Office Depot site presents us with an excellent case study for demonstrating some of the important best practices for designing filters for faceted search results, as follows:

Recently, Office Depot redesigned their search user interface, adding attribute-based filtering and creating a more dynamic, interactive user experience. Unfortunately, Office Depot’s interaction design misses some key points, making their new search user interface less usable and, therefore, less effective. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the Office Depot site presents us with an excellent case study for demonstrating some of the important best practices for designing filters for faceted search results, as follows: 1. Decide on your filter value-selection paradigm—either drill-down or parallel selection. 2. Provide an obvious and consistent way to undo filter selection. 3. Always make all filters easily available. 4. At every step in the search workflow, display only filter values that correspond to the available items, or inventory. 5. Provide filter values that encompass all items, or the complete inventory. By following the attribute-based filtering desi

Why it can be hard to incorporate material from social media sites on your web site.

Jakob discusses the best ways to organise multimedia content

今回は、Webユーザービリティを簡単にチェックできるリストをご紹介。

Loads of nice iPhone designs.

The search results page is the prime focus of the search experience, and can make or break a site’s conversion rates. Therefore, bridging the gap between a user and the content or products they seek is a crucial factor in the success of any large website.

You only need 5 users to uncover enough usability insights to keep you busy for months.

Inspirational interview with Usability Expert!

In this article, we’ll be focusing on web usability and more specifically, on the views of world renowned usability expert, Jakob Nielsen.

すごい！！！！！

In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure.

A história de um belo fracasso. Proposta do iA para o redesign do jornal Tages-Anzeiger. Eram a única agência especializada em User-experience.

print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger

Great slides, examples and pitch book (!) from failed newspaper redesign.

Eine UI-Agentur designt für Print.

Great collection of links

1. UserTesting.com UserTesting.com has built a large panel of users who will record their on-screen actions and voice as they use your website. For each user’s test session, you get a video and their written summary. It costs $29 and is typic

# 1. ラベルはフィールドの上に配置 # 2. フォーカスは視線の先に # 3. デザインのクオリティは信頼を与える # 4. ランディングページのスクロール # 5. リンクはやっぱりブルー # 6. 検索ボックスの文字数 # 7. ホワイトスペースの価値 # 8. ユーザビリティテストの重要性 # 9. プロダクトページは作りこむ # 10. コンテンツのような広告

「ラベルはフィールドの上に配置」が良かった

fumfum

ユーザーにあなたのウェブページを容易で、そして楽しくアクセスできるようにする実用的なユーザビリティの10のポイント（ガイドライン編）をSmashing Magazineから紹介します。

Wonderful stuff

Would be nice. I'm not sure how this would handle the pulling of data w/o draining the battery.

こういうのがいい。

Mockup of a new iPhone home screen

Excelente comparativa entre los teclados del iPhone y de Android.

Virtual Keyboards on iPhone and Android

From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

people can make rough decisions about a Web page's visual appeal after being exposed to it for as little as 50 ms, which is 1/20 of a second

tidsstudie over brug af website, 1 sek, 1 min. 10 min. osv.

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"Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case and completely alienate them in an extreme case. But if you take measures first to reduce actual complexity and then to minimize perceived complexity, the user will be rewarded with a gratifying experience."

Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case and completely alienate them in an extreme case. But if you take measures first to reduce actual complexity and then to minimize perceived complexity, the user will be rewarded with a gratifying experience.

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

Interactivity in Web Design

The Internet is a different place than it was 10 years ago. Back then, the only way people could find information was by surfing the Internet using search

People tell us that they don’t mind scrolling and the behaviour we see in user testing backs that up. We see that people are more than comfortable scrolling long, long pages to find what they are looking for. A quick snoop around the web will show you successful brands that are not worrying about the fold either:

ecommerce mistakes

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

If you run or manage a website, you probably have experience with a web analytics package (like Google Analytics). These tools are great at answering the , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.

Quick explanation for those not familiar with Facebook Connect. It is a service developed by Facebook that lets Facebook users login into partner sites using

As of this writing, there are more than 15,000 registered implementations (websites, devices and applications) of Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008. According to Nick O’Neil from Allfacebook.com, the most recent statistics show that Facebook Connect is close to 1 million users. Impressive numbers given this initiative isn’t even a year old yet. Implementing this can be trivial, and offers immediate benefits to companies willing to experiment. Already we’re seeing these benefits on Connect enabled sites:

The case for integrating Facebook Connect into your site to improve communication and traffic.

Quick explanation for those not familiar with Facebook Connect. It is a service developed by Facebook that lets Facebook users login into partner sites using their Facebook account and share information with Facebook friends. Basically, a single sign

★感動した。最後のオチもｗ

お客様本意のサービス設計をするときに重要なのは、お客様が本当に得をするかどうかではなく、どう感じるか、どう行動するかを想像することが重要だ。そのとき想像が具体的なほど、全員がそうじゃないので、対象となるお客様の人数も想像すべき。

The importance of download speed, for most Web users, has long been established (King 2008). Fast response times foster higher flow states (Skadberg

In a recent usability survey, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. The researchers hypothesize that these different usability criteria are due to differences in how men and women use the Web

vitesse accès conditionne utilisation services

In a survey of 301 undergraduates on the importance of different web usability criteria, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed over easy navigation (Pearson & Pearson 2008). Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. Figure 1 shows the differences among genders for the most important factors in assessing web usability.

"In a recent usability survey, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. The researchers hypothesize that these different usability criteria are due to differences in how men and women use the Web." (via Zeldman.com)

Experience Themes How a storytelling method can help unify teams and create better products by Cindy Chastain on 2009/10/06

Como usar historias para elegir el tema general de un sitio y mantenerlo enfocado.

The more beautifully you shape your work around one clear idea, the more meanings audiences will discover in your film as they take your idea and follow its implication into every aspect of their lives.

There’s an old adage among screenwriters that when a writer can sum up a story in a sentence or less, he has discovered what’s important about the story. He’ll know what the story is about and therefore have a strong sense of theme. And in knowing the theme, he’ll have a compass to use in the process of “designing” the damn thing (i.e. what to keep, what to lose, what actually happens at the end). The story will be all the better for it because it all hangs together with a central idea that will give it greater impact and meaning.

backbutton

jQuery BBQ enables simple, yet powerful bookmarkable #hash history via a cross-browser window.onhashchange event. In addition, jQuery BBQ provides a full jQuery.deparam() method, along with both fragment and query string parse and merge utility methods.

jQuery BBQ enables simple, yet powerful bookmarkable #hash history via a cross-browser window.onhashchange event.

Webdesign

Wie und wo mal Call-to-actions platziert, betextet und so.

nice study on multitouch interfaces with beautiful animation

Pretty interesting take on the desktop. The iPhone has proven you can manage quite complex tasks with your fingers. I'd love to try something like this.

AlertBox gives insight to how users interact with corporate streams. like Facebook, Twitter, and RSS.

According to a study of social networking postings, users like the simplicity of messages that pass into oblivion over time, but were frequently frustrated by unscannable writing, overly frequent postings, and their inability to locate companies on social networks.

Summary: Users like the simplicity of messages that pass into oblivion over time, but were frequently frustrated by unscannable writing, overly frequent postings, and their inability to locate companies on social networks.

blog on uxftw

Comment Form Styling: Examples and Best Practices

Noupe

Comment Form Styling: Examples and Best Practices &laquo; Noupe

If you use Wordpress as a CMS for your clients’ websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find Wordpress hard to use. Yes, it is quite user-friendly, but apparently not enough for people who double-click on links when browsing or worst, enter their website’s url in Google to get there. To make it easier for these people to maintain their own website, I would suggest the following tips.

"There are four basic components to a successful web page design: Research; Design; Copy and Testing and Modification."

Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There's more information at http://10gui.com .

Desktop touch based application navigation. 8min video.

Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers.

fooooooooooooooda! novo estilo de interface para programas, usando múltiplos pontos de contato

the future in desktop design - moving beyond the mouse

it's genius

odoo you will love this...

very good designs

ניתוח מצויין של חווית הקניה באמאזון: http://bit.ly/KRjk6 [from http://twitter.com/talgalili/statuses/4883868116]

Análise da página da Amazon. Bom roteiro para projetar uma loja virtual

Writing and reading — from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines — are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?

These elements are the 7 key principles that make a Web design look good: * Balance, * Grid, * Color, * Graphics, * Typography, * White space, * Connection.

desing article d

This is a must read...and must re-read!

Infográficos

Иногда вспоминаю свое первое постоянное место работы в одном небольшом издательстве, когда приходилось заниматься практически всем от разворотов и рекламных полос до лайтбоксов, обложек, иллюстраций и различных графиков. Особенно нравилось наглядно и доступно подавать большой объем информации или просто графически объяснять какие либо сложные моменты и явления. Даже где-то жаль, что сегодня нет необходимости рисовать такие вещи (равно как жаль что не сохранил свои старые работы), тем не менее интерес к инфографике остался и рубрика будет обязательно пополняться.

infograficos

Infográficos (em ucraniano)

70 awesome infographics. for some reason this is in russian.

I'd like to know your thoughts on these

Complex CSS files can often be difficult to manage especially if you don’t use a structured way to write and organize their code. In a previous post I already illustrated a methodic approach to CSS coding. This post illustrates five simple practical rules that can help you write well structured and more readable CSS files to make your developer life easier.

5 Rules To Write More Readable CSS Files

Some nice examples of subtle UI errors on big websites

ユーザビリティのありがちな間違いTop9

Tutorial para drag and drop

We’ve all seen the brilliant functionality on Mashable where news stories and interesting articles can be shared to social networking sites; the functionality is driven by the images accompanying the articles; you click and hold on an image and can then drag it into a toolbar to share it. It’s brilliant and intuitive, and in this article I’m going to show you how we can replicate this behavior with jQuery and jQuery UI.

Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit.

Ok.

Tips for eliminating the signup process - other ways to discourage spam bots, and track users without passwords.

Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit. My site, Newsforwhatyoudo.com was one of the guilty parties. We saw users coming back to the site repeatedly, but not signing up. The percentage that looked at the signup form and then bolted was uncomfortably high. It was time to kill the signup form. This blog post documents how we implemented gradual engagement using Ruby on Rails and restful authentication.

Here are several tools that can be used with a heuristic evaluation to identify trouble spots

Doh! %&^%&^%&! Another forehead-smack-worthy curse-laden moment: Ive filled out a lengthy online form and hit the submit button only to find myself staring back at an empty form peppered with red errors. Has this happened to you? Of course it has. While considering how much I really need to complete this form, I start making notes on how Id design it to be a better experience. Seriously, how many date formats am I going to have to try before I get this sucker right? Do I need to phone a friend? The lack of strong error messaging is a regular issue I encounter as both a user and UX designer. As the bearer of bad news to users, error messaging can be the element that determines whether your app gets a Sale or FAIL. Editors Note: Well be covering UX tips and strategies at The Future of Web Design NYC on Nov 16th 17th. 1. Error messaging is customer support Error messaging is a critical component of customer support. Customer support teams are experts at talking to and co

help on writing error messages for forms

ThinkVitamin - Carsonified's blog about the web

I like to be confident with post titles, but the reality in this case is a *possible* solution for very long dropdowns. The problem with long dropdowns is that the dropdown itself can go below the “fold” of the website. That is, below the visible area of the browser window. So in order to access those menu items down below, you need to scroll your browser window. For those of us with scroll wheels of some kind on our mice (mouses?), it’s not a big deal. For those without, those lower menu items are totally inaccessible, because to use the browser scrollbar means mousing off the menu (and probably having it close).

Navi scroll

e the fight

Simple user testing with 5 participants, paper prototyping, and heuristic evaluation offer a cheap, fast, and early focus on usability, as well as many rounds of iterative design.

que hacer y no hacer en diseño web

Brand = User Experience: The Interface of a Cheeseburger

5 minute improvement with css borders.

Serife gegen Groteske: die Lehrbuch-Meinung unterstellt beharrlich Qualitätsunterschiede, die offenkundig nicht existieren. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Viel wichtiger als die oft beschworene “objektive” Lesbarkeit ist, was eine Schriftart ausstrahlt – ihr „Look and Feel”.

good web design keeps users

Qu'est-ce qui fait principalement fuir les visiteurs d'un site web en 2009 ? Pour 51% c'est le temps de chargement, pour 25% c'est un contenu de mauvaise qualité, et pour 24% c'est la mocheté du site. Concernant le design, c'était moins de 7% des personnes interrogées en 2007 qui fuyaient pour cause d'interface ratée.

The demand for good web design is increasing, revealed a recent Webcopyplus online poll. Almost 25% of web users indicated "poor visual presentation" as the number one element that drives them away from websites. Only 6.6% of web users who participated in a similar 2007 online poll indicated "poor visual presentation" as the main reason to abandon a website. That equates to a 267% increase during the two-year period.

web design

If we could tear into the fabric of time and look a decade into the future, what kind of experience might we find? In this article we will explore creating a timeless user experience.

10 blogs sobre User Experience, a acompanhar.

Usability Problems To Avoid

usability ecommerce webdesign ux e-commerce

google support for a/b testing etc to optimize web site performance.

Multivariate Testing

lille case om udviklingen af et rating system

hem as markers on the slider, giving you a frame of reference for the new tea. They show up when you drag the slider over them or when you hover over th

smilies, a 100-point slider, AND recent rating tickmarks with rollover info. wow

Wordpress Multi Languages: 5 Plugins To Built A Multilingual Website

5 plugins för att göra site på flera språk i WordPress

Wordpress Multi Languages: 5 Plugins To Built A Multilingual Website - http://www.webdesignbooth.com/wordpress-multi-languages-5-plugins-to-built-a-multilingual-website/

Wireframes are the blue prints that define and allocate a Web sites content and behavior. They are not bound by colors, fonts, and anything that may surface on the site as part of any content.

Inhoud rammelt wat, voorbeelden zijn okay

CNN's New Website Design Deconstructed

A List Apart: Articles: Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients

It's hard for clients to understand the true value of user experience research. As much as you'd like to tell your clients to go read The Elements of User Experience and call you back when they’re done, that won’t cut it in a professional services environment. David Sherwin creates a cheat sheet to help you pitch UX research using plain, client-friendly language that focuses on the business value of each exercise.

Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-methods.html Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves. # Separate design and development, and have the user interface team progress one step ahead of the implementation team. That way, when it comes time to build something, it's already been designed and tested. (And yes, you can do both in a week or two by using paper prototypes and discount user testing.) # Maintain a coherent vision of the user interface architecture. Create the initial vision during a "sprint zero" period — before any implementation has started — and maintain it through annual (or semi-annual) design vision sprints. You can't just design individual features; they have to fit together into a coherent whole — a whole that must be designed as well. Bottom-up user interface design equals a confused total user experience (the Linux syndrome).

Distributing your UX personnel doesn't mean you have to abandon all the benefits of having a centralized, specialized group. Often, a matrix structure provides a good compromise, making UX professionals part of individual projects on a day-to-day basis, but still offering some company-wide coordination.

Nothing new, but fun to throw at the suits - "Clearly, Agile is considerably better than the old Waterfall method. Good riddance to that one. However, the professionals in our new study still felt that Iterative Design was marginally better than Agile"

The appearance and usability of certain interface elements and functionality are crucial to the success any websites in today’s market. Studies have demonstrated that even a split-second delay in thinking on the user’s part will weaken their perception and interest in a website and ultimately lower the website’s conversion rate. In certain niches and industries, having UI elements that are not obvious in their use may be perfectly acceptable. The blogging and web development industry are perfect examples. But when we design user interfaces for non-tech-savvy audiences—which is usually the case with client work—we have to ensure that certain UI elements do not stray too far from what users are accustomed to. This article discusses some best practices and usability traits of six user interface elements and the conventions for each, so that developers can create user experiences that are both beautiful and simple.

A very smart visualization of passwords and its effect on usability

Yesterday, I posted Chroma-Hash, an experiment in how to visualize the live-input of secure fields, such as a password on a login screen. So far, I’ve received a lot of great feedback, as well as a number of questions that I thought deserved a proper response. Before I go into any details, I invite you to check out the live demo, (if you haven’t seen it already), so you can get a clear idea of what Chroma-Hash does.

Article on how to solve the masked password issues. Solution doesn't work, but it's a start.

Elegant UI gives user visual feedback on correctness of "hidden" passwords

visualize the live-input of secure fields, such as a password on a login screen

This strategy is stated perfectly by Flickr's Myles Grant: The Flickr engineering team is obsessed with making pages load as quickly as possible. To that end, we’re refactoring large amounts of our code to do only the essential work up front, and rely on our queuing system to do the rest. Flickr uses a queuing system to process 11 million tasks a day. Leslie Michael Orchard also does a great job explaining the queuing meme in his excellent post Queue everything and delight everyone. Asynchronous work queues are how you scalably solve problems that are too big to handle in real-time.

You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners

The Steve Irwin approach to discovery on the web—“I’m going to click this here link…just to see what happens!”

Context

From A List Apart: "Content-rich" is not enough. Most websites are not learner-friendly. As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable. Amber Simmons tells how to begin creating rich content sites that invite and repay exploration and discovery.

What we find changes who we become

"But just as important as the narrative consciously built into a website is the narrative readers create for themselves. Readers build their own narrative as they work their way through a website, moving from one content object to another. This narrative emerges from interrelationships between content items and helps readers turn fragmentary pieces of information into knowledge. The more clearly a reader can discern these relationships, the clearer and more meaningful the narrative he’ll be able to construct."

Ways to increase sales on ecommerce sites and increase sign-ups on service sites,

Read it. Do it. Awesome advice from Tog.

I'm about to give you a number of ways to increase sales on ecommerce sites and increase sign-ups on service sites, but first, raise your hand if you personally, when surfing the web, enjoy registering to use a site.

Interesting blog from the creater of Twitter

I'm making this post because I know the design of this feature will be somewhat controversial. People understandably have expectations of how the retweet function should work. And I want to show some of the thinking that's gone into it. I've been a big proponent of this particular design internally at Twitter, because, while it won't serve every use case, I think it offers something new and powerful.

excellent communication on the introduction of the new retweet feature on twitter. i don't think i've _ever_ retweeted anything. although i couldn't have articulated the reasons, i think the problems listed in the 'background' section of the post existed in my subconscious somewhere. i might start retweeting now though.

ance, a popular color, is taken in Western society to mean environmental consciousness. In China, a green hat could imply that a man’s wife is cheating on him. The color is sacred in the Islamic world, and it has significance in Catholicism. In some African countries, green represents the natural richness of Africa. It has also been associated with money, jealousy, growth, sickness, inexperience, evil, fertility, hope, youth and death. This is just one example of the cultural and psychological implications that color can have for your website’s audience.

from patrick

The beauty of being a web designer is creating a detailed, creative, and original web design in Photoshop, without having to (for the most part) think about how it will be coded. During the design phase, it’s all about the look, and either the coding can be taken care of later, or be outsourced to a developer. Either way, not thinking about the development usability or functionality is a great way for a designer to not feel limited in the design process. This is a great way of thinking, and can lead to the best designs. However, once it does need to be coded, we as designers are in a tricky spot. In this article, you’ll find a few simple tips that can help designers learn basic XHTML/CSS conversion efficiently for a quick-loading website that is accurate to the original PSD.

The beauty of being a web designer is creating a detailed, creative, and original web design in Photoshop, without having to (for the most part) think about how it will be coded.

Summary. This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and handwriting classes) using semantic differential scales. Responses are shown by typeface class and individual typeface using scaled scores. These results are helpful to practitioners when deciding which typeface to use for online text.

Survey results of typefaces and their usability.

user reponses to web typefaces

40 onscreen typefaces for useability

influence or manipulation?

5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience

Simple tips for a good UX. These are obvious wins...

clever signup/login ui

For one of my side projects, Leafy Chat, we have just added the concept of user accounts. This includes the need for registration and log in (as well as log out and forgot password and so on). Leafy Chat only requires an email address and a password for both registration and log in, so it would be great to have some clever way to have both forms on the homepage.

Designing login/signup for a web server

Very smart. Stealing this idea for a current project

Interesting thoughts, but I don't like the end result. People have been trained over the years on how to do login/signup. Putting them both on the same page seems like the right idea, but there's something wrong with this implementation--it looks different from most forms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHhHgwQ0xKU

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"So after probably far too much research, I've come up with the following single register/log in form for Leafy Chat. Log in Sign up The form updates via JavaScript when the user selects a radio button. For the log in form, notice that the submit button says "Log in" and there is a link to retrieve a forgotten password. For the sign up form, the label for the password field prompts the user to "Choose a password" and "Sign up!" while also accepting the terms of service. I like this design because a user can either log in or sign up directly from the homepage and the radio buttons stand out and make the options clear to the user. I love that the page dynamically updates to provide relevant help for the chosen form. Also, the user can easily correct any errors without re-entering their email/password. What do you think?

"To Create An App That Customers Love, Zoom Out" : de nombreux conseils qui ne valent pas forcément que pour le développement d'applications iPhone...

A list of the many challenges of internationalization. My favourite code-breaker is Russian pluralization: if you are saying "X new messages", then "messages" is spelled one way if X ends in 1, another if it ends if 2,3, or 4, and a third way if it ends in 5,6,7,8,9 or 0. I cannot imagine how annoying this must be to code.

It’s not always as simple as 'Just use Unicode'

'Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be? Well, what list of languages do you want to target? Please don't say "all of them". There is no such thing as a definitive list of languages and even if there was, the list of languages supported in Unicode changes across various incarnations of Unicode. Oh, and there are languages with unbounded sets of "characters" such as Chinese which literally cannot be fully described in Unicode.'

Some examples of why internationalization and localization are not as simple as "just use Unicode".

Nice explanation of the complexity of language support.

Horizontal websites have become an underground phenomenon. A horizontal website is a lot like your artsy younger sister who dresses weirdly and doesn't seem to

Horizontal websites have become an underground phenomenon. A horizontal website is a lot like your artsy younger sister who dresses weirdly and doesn’t seem to acknowledge a world outside of her own imagination. Since horizontal websites are not universally embraced by the web design community, those who design in this genre must live with a hope that they are advancing design in some small way. Horizontal designs are not for every type of website. It works superbly well with portfolios or photo galleries, but not so much with word-driven sites like blogs. Horizontal designs are not for every type of audience. Grandparents can’t handle it. Basically, anyone born before 1970 can’t handle it. These designs are best suited for those looking to make their website an extension of their art. It also says a lot about your brand. If your brand is quirky, bold and mind bending, your audience will expect an equally expressive web design.

With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But where do we start?

Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, let’s move past the hype of web type and think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Several experiments with the CSS @font-face property, including some preliminary work with the much-anticipated Typekit, have led me to a single, urgent conclusion: I need to know how my type renders on screens, in web browsers. To that end, I created Web Font Specimen, a handy (free) resource web designers and typographers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.

Dimensions of Media Difference All media move faster these days. Compare an old TV show with a current one, and you'll see that the cuts come quicker. And, between TV and the Web, there are many differences that result in a substantially faster online media velocity:

Since there are many times when programmers have to design and implement user interfaces, here are listed several aspects of GUI design that should be taken into account.

Nice summary of some data visualization techniques

visualization data charts

"figure out what graph or chart suits your data best"

Nice range of options for viewing fractions... ratios...

Usability

Book on web usability.

Some great recources for A/B-Testing

This is the way the web should work. Facebook - pleas join this!

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace support for OpenID

Prior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting and then rapidly prototyping innovative mobile experiences.

some best practices

This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes in web design and provides solutions to enhance the usability of your website.

Front-end techniques to improve your site usability using jQuery

Usability is a very important part of website building. Sadly, this is often neglected by designers and developers.

8 tips voor een betere webshop

1. Remove clutter 2. Make sure the shopping cart stands out 3. Provide visual feedback 4. The bigger the better 5. Make buttons and links obvious 6. Always be there to help 7. Handle errors gracefully 8. Communicate your value add

8 ways we increased ecommerce sales by 10,000% « Boagworld

10,000% increase in sales over 5 years. Sounds incredible doesn’t it. Just to make that an even more incredible, their average customer is in their 80s! Who said the elderly don’t use the internet. When we started working with Wiltshire Farm Foods their monthly revenue was a 100th of what it is today. Of course in reality that success was not down entirely to us. Matt Curry, our client at Wiltshire Farm Foods has put his heart and soul into that website and as I say in Chapter one of the Website Owners Manual, it is the site champion who makes or breaks a site.

Web design has followed a long and windy road from it’s rather modest beginnings. Initially, the term “web designer,” described something much more akin to that of a graphic designer: a designer who concerns themselves with the presentation of text and pictures. Today, however, the majority of websites an applications online are interactive. In turn, modern web designers are called upon to make a number of considerations drastically different than those made by traditional graphic designers. To bridge this gap, we call upon the discipline of interaction design. This article serves as a good jumping off point for people interested in learning more about Interaction Design. To that point, we’ll briefly cover the history, guiding principles, noteworthy contributors, tools, etc. related to this fascinating discipline. Even if you’re an interaction designer yourself, give the article a read and share your thoughts in the comments below.

This article serves as a good jumping off point for people interested in learning more about Interaction Design. To that point, we’ll briefly cover the history, guiding principles, noteworthy contributors, tools, etc. related to this fascinating discipline.

Sometimes, as a strategist, I think I fill both roles. And I know I'm wrong about that.

I ask [clients]: “What do people have to do in order for you to be successful?”. Simple question. Now, the answer might be that people need to click on ads or install software or create/save social objects or buy a product. Each one of these answers is fine, but it often takes a little bit of digging to find out the real actions that people need to take. For example, if the initial answer is “click on ads” then I have to dig deeper to find out why someone might be on the site/app in the first place…people just don’t randomly visit to click on ads. But the resulting behavior is what I design for. That’s it…once I know what needs to happen for my client to be successful my only focus is on eliciting that behavior. It really is as simple as that.

If interaction design isn’t about supporting & influencing behavior…then what exactly are you doing?

Demystifying Interaction Design - Bokardo

We design to change, guide, support, elicit, constrict, and control behavior. The products and screens we create are about getting others to do something, using or buying or donating or otherwise taking some real-world action. Good design elicits the right behavior, poor design does not.

AltDrag allows you to drag windows with the mouse when pressing the alt key. You can use the middle or right mouse button to resize windows. If you press the shift key while you drag or resize, the window will stick to other windows. You can double-click a window to maximize it. You can double-click with the middle mouse button to roll-up windows. Fullscreen windows, such as games, will not be dragged or resized.

Writing for the web is a challenge. There are usually word length restrictions, the fact that users scan rather than read every word, and sometimes style guides to adhere to. There are enough writing tips online to keep you reading for longer than you probably desire. Here are 1o tips that have been the most useful to me: Know your audience This sounds obvious but is often taken for granted. The only way you can write relevant copy that is targeted at the right audience in the right tone of voice, is to understand who that audience is. Depending on where your audience are located, you may have to include local expressions or if writing for a wide audience be specific with things such as dollars. If it is US dollars then say so. If it is Cardiff in Wales then say so as there is also a Cardiff in New Zealand and other countries.

My big list of 24 Web Site Usability Testing Tools In the past few years, there has been massive growth in new and exciting cheap or free web site usability testing tools, so here's my list of 24 tools you may need to use from time to time. Gone

A detailed list of 24 usability testing tools, including pros, cons and pricing for each.

verbose scheduling via natural language expressions

Andy Kim of Potion Factory walks through his design decisions for a UI to specify recurring events in a to-do-list/calendar app.

Better design through less interface. Designing a recurring schedule without the garbage UI.

task repeat repetition

api design

On API Design Guidelines, Books, Java, Neuroning

<a href=" portfolio.html" title="Some artwork of the artist">Portfolio</a>

If you are designing web sites in the UK, you probably already know that the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) mandates web sites be accessible by visually

Accessible

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

The human brain is not optimized for the abstract thinking and data memorization that websites often demand. Many usability guidelines are dictated by cognitive limitations.

Great essay describing the perception of software performance and the various time ranges that matter. Good content and great source of references to other source material on the topic.

Designing and Engineering Time

When you need to choose which part of your application to focus on speeding up, understanding where and why users will perceive performance problems is key. You can't and shouldn't optimize everything. Remember, perception is reality. No mater what your metrics say, if the user thinks your application is slow, it is.

"Failing to specify reasonable performance requirements makes it very difficult to verify that your software is actually meeting your users' performance expectations." … with a good overview of Seow's timings.

very useful thoughts on setting performance expectations.

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Usability Testing Resources

タブUIの構造や特長、設置の判断、ユーザビリティ、アクセシビリティ、実装のポイントや機能の拡張方法、実装例やスクリプト例 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/24/module-tabs-in-web-design-best-practices-and-solutions/

Practical Tips for Government Web Sites (And Everyone Else!) To Improve Their Findability in Search

Liste wertvoller Usability-Werke

非常に勉強になりました。

これはいいHOWTO

9/1にロケットスタートからリリースされたサイト「nanapi [ナナピ] - ...

The modern web developer who does not consider Ajax when planning or building their websites is potentially missing out on a powerful tool to enhance usability. There are however, challenges in implementing Ajax functionality on a web page. In this article we’ll discuss solutions to five of the most common challenges that a developer faces when using Ajax to enhance the content on their website. Although there is a lot more to discuss and research on all five topics, this post should give beginners and intermediate Ajax developers some solid tips on implementing Ajax functionality in a more user-friendly and accessible manner. Problem #1: Content Is Not Backwards-Compatible This problem occurs when a designer has incorporated JavaScript and Ajax enhancements into their website’s architecture without making provisions for browsers that have disabled JavaScript. Nothing is wrong with planning a website with JavaScript and Ajax; in fact, in today’s market, JavaScript considerations

The navigation might be the single most important aspect of a web design's usability. Without a navigation, you would be stuck on the home page for a very long

30 Website Navigations that Make You Wanna Click It

“Are you sure you don’t want to lose your changes?” Err… what? No. I mean YES. Oh sh*t.

Do you suspect a programmer may have put together the terrible user interface on that “enterprise” software you’re forced to use every day? There are some give-away indicators. Look out for them in your software, hunt down the developer and force them to read a book about user interface design. If you’re suitably senior, force them to a) improve it, or even better b) get someone with real UI experience to fix it.

Ian Voyce, 2009-09-14

The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer. Not really fair on programmers, but fun nonetheless.

Wow.

chromeの閉じるボタン考

brilliant

Well considered, with a wonderful pay-off line

interesting accelerator for mouse users in chrome. delay in resizing when closing tabs, to make it easier to close multiple.

gifts for UX geeks like Information Architects, Usability Specialists, Interaction Designers, and even Web Designers.

http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/gifts_for_user_experience_geeks_2009/ - I want the Konigi Wireframe Sketch Book! http://konigi.com/store/product/wireframe-sketch-book-small

UX product picks for 2009

Though most people wouldn't consider Apple's Web site an important online destination, November saw Apple in the top ten list of US Web sites. 62 million Internet users visited Apple online during the month with an average of 1 hour and 18 minutes spent per user. By comparison, Google had 155 million unique visitors in November.

Functioning Form

neat tool

hat same simple example also w

A long, thoughtful post about why everything should auto-save all the time, because when you're trying to work, you don't want to be diverting your attention into meta-work at the same time.

by John Gruber - 20 February 2009 - Daring Fireball

A great article of file saving conventions and usability.

by Jeffrey Zeldman

Why understanding the difference is what it's all about by Jeffrey Zeldman

Using this visualization, Bruno confirmed that about 10% of users couldn't see the download button without scrolling, and thus never noticed it. 10% may not sound like a lot, but in this context it turns out to mean a significant number of people weren't downloading Google Earth. Using this data, the team was able to redesign the page to good effect.

show to Chad

Browser Size, hoeveel procent ziet een bepaald element van je website..

The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites - Smashing Magazine

I was pretty excited when I came up with the idea of examining and showcasing some of the most famous beer and alcohol-related websites from a number of countries around the world. After all, who doesn’t like the odd drink now and again? (Well, besides me — I can’t stand alcohol in any form.) Surely this would make for an interesting article that would elicit quite a few comments. Well, if that’s the result, it wouldn’t be for the reasons I suspected when beginning to research this piece. Instead, I’ve concluded — due to problems related to typography, accessibility, and usability — that the apparent “beauty” present on many of the websites related to this industry is merely “skin deep”. To put it quite bluntly, the designers and developers people responsible for decision-making in the beer and alcohol website industry should be ashamed of themselves for creating such horrendous user experiences.

of sites with Flash intros that have the option to be “skippe

The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites - http://bit.ly/5i8u5i [from http://twitter.com/hadhad/statuses/6489154728]

By Bill Westerman (Principal, Create With Context). "How people really use the iPhone", an interesting readout of design issues and recommendations for people designing for the iPhone and beyond.

Reveal new window links and links to non-HTML files with a user stylesheet |

user stylesheet

Design best practices to build the best web user interface (form design, navigation, buttons,...)

Fly-out and drop-down menu 12/08/09 • In Design Patterns The user needs to navigate the site but there are to many options to show in the main navigation bar. You want to offer the user direct access to all sections of the website.

by @briancray

In a default Google Analytics setup, the information you have about your users’ navigation behaviors and preferences is limited to which pages they viewed and where they came from. But what does that really tell you about how your users behave inside your web pages? Not much, and that’s where all the juicy behavioral insight comes from.

So true! Especially #5.. I hate that! :O

Oh man I TOTALLY agree with #1 - I hate being forced to click for multiple page articles like that - what a waste of my time. I live in a rural area and don't have the fastest internet - waiting for each new page to load makes me more and more frustrated and less and less likely to finish the article. At the very least, offer a "view on one page" option like some sites do. On some sites, I've used the print version to view articles on one page and not interrupt my reading, but not all sites work that way, either. Please - just stop with the gratuitous multiple pages people!

I understand the marketing incentives for all of these tactics, but I have to admit that they are something that must drive non-marketers crazy.

Websites have some impractical, clunky designs. Let's aim for streamlining designs to facilitate easier web browsing and better information layout. I hate seeing poor website design. It tastes like farts. Farts, farts, farts, farts, farts!

How do you design your content for a Kindle?

Wer`s dreidimensional mag.....

This is the first part in this series of The Principles of Good Web Design. The other parts are listed below: The Principles of Good Web Design Part 2:

is a superb example of flow in web de

I’ve been asked by the Italian magazine L’Espresso to write an article on The Future of Web Design. Here is the English text. Thinking about what’s next online is fun because everything you wish to come true will come true. While commercial products obey to the laws of the market, which in part are influenced by [...]

Improving a sign up form; case study with 'before' and 'after' designs by 37signals

Review of the new 37signals signup pages.

Shorter, friendlier, "more" secure, clearer

Website optimization

Just about every aspect of a website can be split-tested. Split testing involves a single element of a page being changed at one time. A different type of split testing is sometimes used to achieve faster improvements with a shorter number of tests; multivariate testing. In this type of testing, multiple variables are changed within a single web page. So, rather than having multiple versions of the same page, multivariate testing rotates different elements on the same page, for example, the headline, the call-to-action, the image and the opening paragraph. The advantage with multivariate testing is that you can find the optimum combination of website elements in a shorter space of time and achieve significant improvements in the website’s performance; the disadvantage is that it takes a considerable amount of traffic to get accurate results. For most websites, A/B split testing will be the optimum method of improving a website’s conversion rate over time.

Brilliant examples of elegant form designs

Login Form

豪華なログインフォーム事例集

David Rosen of Wolfire Games presents design lessons from 2D Boy's World of Goo in a youtube video.

aky way to have higher image compression ratios. That’s completely right, which is funny, since that was a case of a technical limitation that actually caused the game to look better with more depth. Very perceptive, thumbs up!”

Cool gra ;]

This post showcases a wonderful collection of wireframe templates. It even includes Jason Robb’s template he showcased in a post for UX Booth titled

When designing a large website, especially one that contains a store, you may be required to design a system for ordering online, or a multi-step process of another...

Whitespace: The Underutilized Design Element | Web Design Ledger - http://webdesignledger.com/tips/whitespace-the-underutilized-design-element

whitespace

Great short article demonstrating whitespace in webdesign.

Below are a collection of resources to get you going down the information architecture and data visualization path. Whether you just want to become more familiar with infographics and data visualizations for occasional use or are thinking of making it a career, the resources below will surely come in handy. There are also some beautiful examples and more roundups to see even more fantastic graphics.

By Cameron Chapman Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who've never tried it before. Also, creating successful infographics and...

We’ve never had a lot of chargebacks (a chargeback is when a customer calls their credit card company to dispute a charge they don’t recognize), but last year we made a simple change that reduced our chargebacks by 30% as a percentage of sales. I can’t be certain the reduction is entirely due to this technique, but we didn’t change anything else related to how we deal with chargebacks.

008 I was thinking about how we could do a better job explaining a charge, but we were only allowed a limited number of characters on the customer’s billing statement. According to the merchant/card rules: Your company name/DBA section must be either 3, 7 or 12 characters and the product descriptor 4, 8 or 13 characters. That means we could do something like: 37signa*Basecamp 800.xxx.xxxx IL or even…

If you don’t use a product descriptor (“Basecamp” or “Backpack”), you get 22 characters. So I decided to register 37signals-charge.com, redirect it to 37signals.com/charge, write up a page explaining why there’s a charge on your card, and put that URL on people’s charge slips instead of “37signals, LLC” or “Basecamp” or “Highrise” etc.

This is an interesting one for all of those who are accepting credit card payments online via their website. Chargebacks are the worst and EAT UP your profit. They came up with an interesting way to prevent 'em.

A great little bit of online business advice - having your line item charge on customers' credit card statements read as a URL they can use to identify what they're being charged for.

Some more good information on how to create good quality persona documents

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best practice videos on flickr

Bill Scott, Designing Web Interfaces. Examples of interfaces and interactions in action.

This article gives you the information you need to plan, design and build an HTML newsletter that renders well and is actually useful to recipients. It’s a quick and dirty guide to effective email newsletters.

“We really love this new website you’ve built! Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like...

Finding the sweet spot between realism and obscurity in design elements. (via @gracesmith)

consejos acerca de interfaces de usuario demasiado realistas

By Louis Lazaris The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can't help it. Call-to-action functionality... The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; users register or subscribe using forms — the uses for forms are endless. While it is fairly easy to slap together a form in HTML, it’s not as easy to code, style, and design your form in a manner that makes it usable and accessible to the majority of users. Since forms play such a large role in website conversions and success rates, the tips below, as well as the resources provided at the end of this article, should prove valuable for developers creating and coding web forms.

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X&#039;s user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here&#039;s why.

Interesting guess at how the Apple tablet UI might be designed.

For some time I’ve been meaning to test my small collection of PDA/smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. The iPhone’s software keyboard? The Newton’s handwriting recognition? Palm’s Graffiti? With the possible imminent arrival of a tablet from Apple that will save the world, it seemed a good time to get round to the test.

Phil Gyford tested a small collection of PDA and smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. He tested six input method: Apple Newton handwriting recognition (1997); Palm Vx Graffiti (1999); Palm Treo 650’s hardware QWERTY keyboard (2004); Apple iPhone 3G’s software QWERTY keyboard (2009); old-fashioned Pen & Paper; a full-size QWERTY keyboard. He copied out 200 plus words. And he did it twice for each input. The results were surprising. Palm Graffiti was surprisingly slow. Handwriting was surprisingly slow. The iPhone soft keyboard was surprisingly fast.

Productividad escribiendo en diferentes dispositivos. For some time I’ve been meaning to test my small collection of PDA/smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. The iPhone’s software keyboard? The Newton’s handwriting recognition? Palm’s Graffiti? With the possible imminent arrival of a tablet from Apple that will save the world, it seemed a good time to get round to the test.

Sehr schöne kleine Statistik. Das iPhone gewinnt nach der QWERTZ Tastatur und vor der Handschrift.

Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips - http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/five-simple-but-essential-web-usability-tips/

Odds are good if you are designing a enterprise software or a productivity web application, you’ll need a number of these components…

15种常见的元素典范~

SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers

Uma aula sobre análise de relatórios de acesso (Bounce Rate, Conversion Rate, etc)

Med hjälp av statistik går det att bevisa vadsomhelst brukar man ju säga, men faktum är att statistik för din webbsida också kan hjälpa dig att förbättra den. Det förutsätter att du vet hur du ska tolka statistiken och hur du ska ta till dig av den. I den här artikeln får du hjälp med tips på olika statistikverktyg att använda dig av och hur du genom statistiken kan analysera vad du ska förbättra på din sajt för att

Analytics

storytelling

I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad. Some are trying to dismiss these ravings by comparing them to certain comments made after the launch of the iPod in 2001: "No wireless. Les space than a Nomad. Lame.". I fear this January-26th thinking misses the point. What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.

I'm often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they're thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges. With the iPhone OS as incarnated in the iPad, Apple proposes to do something about this, and I mean really do something about it instead of just talking about doing something about it, and the world is going mental.

"Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. ... "The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. "The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table's order, designing the house and organising the party. "Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. ... "If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people's perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with."

E-Commerce Website Design

Very interesting perspective.

There seems to be a growing sentiment that interaction designers, visual designers and UI designers need to know how to write code.

Do not force user experience designers to learn how to code.

Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This provocative and inspiring book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time search and discovery. Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and mixed reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today.

A sandbox of search design illustrations, including a pattern library for search and discovery.

Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and mixed reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today.

Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut? If you are looking to change all that, then this is the post for you.

Interesting article about the fold

Insight on designing websites 'below the fold'.

CUTE, AND HE'S RIGHT, I WILL SCROLL, BUT ONLY SO FAR (try to paginate me and I'll get pissed off and leave instantly)

The change we have been waiting for has come - our users have matured. 2010 is the year of Design Simplicity.

7 Good UI design tools, and testing

If you think user testing is time consuming and expensive, ThinkVitamin.com will change your mind with their article on cheap, effective testing, allowing you to get back to designing for your audience.

Quotes from Steve Krug and Jakob Neilsen

Creating a website can be challenging but the hardest part lies in making it usable. The problem is the majority of web designers forget that the website wasn’t created for themselves but to solve the users’ needs.

mobile development opinion

Points made, but terribly incomplete.

Designing for the mobile web is not the same as designing for the traditional web, and though as an industry we're just learning as we go, we have to learn to adapt quickly to these new demands. Let's take a quick look at some concepts to keep in mind when designing for the mobile web.

I should dive more into this subject, so let's Instapaper this for now ;) and skim it over for good reference. In April I will attempt to make a mobile version of Orpion and articles like these might prove very useful.

I don't know python so I can't say whether these gripes are legitimate, but it's useful to remind yourself to look for such inconsistencies in how you do things, or in the tools you use every day

"Is there a middle path—a way to provide feedback and reduce password errors that doesn’t sacrifice the user experience? At least two design patterns address this issue in offline applications, and with a little JavaScript, we can bring them to the web. [...] The simplest solution is to mask the password by default while giving users a way to switch the field to clear text. [...] Apple adopted an interesting approach. The last letter typed into the field remains visible for a couple of seconds before turning into a dot. This creates an opportunity to catch errors without showing the entire password at once."

Clickable blocks of content.

メールフォームデザイン

After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial role in such an application’s overall usefulness and usability.

Great filter examples from Luke Wroblewski.

luke w

This article will outline the process we use to create rich applications, focusing primarily on screen design. All of the content is geared specifically toward productivity applications like Software as a Service (SaaS) products and Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs)

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics of bringing storytelling into the user experience process and some places to get started. Concluding this two-part article, we hear from creative professionals who are leading the way in this relatively new world of combining the craft of storytelling with user experience. We’ll also see how storytelling can be applied to more than just interactive experiences: we find it in everything from packaging to architecture.

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions.

The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer

Extensive list of User Experience reading

Oxo

How to make a useful measuring cup

alex lee of smart design (oxo's external design firm) on their work. highlights: recognizing pet peeves and making obvious solutions for unnoticed problems. helping people without the stigma of letting them know they're being helped. simply needing keen observation to solve some types of problems.

Oxo measuring cup

A conversation on the design of OXO's measuring cups, plus a link to GEL conference.

"UCD can be too documentation-heavy, isolated and risky but Agile needs help with defining requirements and concept development. How can Agile and user centric principles work together?"

interesting point.

A great take to why Flash content wouldn't work on the iPad even if there was Flash support.

Adobe Flash; Apple iPad

Here's what to do: Discover how multivariate testing can increase your profits...then compare software tools using the comparison chart below. Be warned, though: this chart doesn't tell the whole story. Find out the reality of what the software is like, by reading the descriptions and user reviews of it. And, once you've used the software yourself, please come back to submit a review of it.

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

Despite what many people will tell you, there are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to call-to-action buttons. Yes, it’s true that large, colorful buttons, surrounded by plenty of space are usually the most successful, but it’s important that you tailor each button to the primary task of the web page in question, whether it’s to Signup,

ui design

Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don't meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a...

re two examples of sites that I feel take each of these principles into consideration to produce fantastic de

Eine Sammlung von Webapps zum Tracken von Nutzerverhalten, Bewertungen, Meinungen (Heatmap, Mouse-Heatmap, Clickmap, Umfrage, ...)

Excellent demonstration of the creative process while keeping in mind user-interaction/understanding and company branding/personality.

How stuff gets designed at Basecamp. I love the thought proces design the design: http://bit.ly/jcOUj [from http://twitter.com/charanjit/statuses/2794360472]

In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user interactions work better.

++++ Self training

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them...

I believe this "more features = better" mindset is at the root of the misjudgment, and is also the reason why so many otherwise smart people are bad at product design (e.g. most open source projects).

Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else.

What's the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else. Those three attributes define the fundamental essence and value of the product -- the rest is noise. For example, the original iPod was: 1) small enough to fit in your pocket, 2) had enough storage to hold many hours of music and 3) easy to sync with your Mac (most hardware companies can't make software, so I bet the others got this wrong). That's it -- no wireless, no ability to edit playlists on the device, no support for Ogg -- nothing but the essentials, well executed. ...By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product.

Words that Zing

多重觸控手勢向量圖檔

手の形いろいろ。

ジェスチャー、アイコン、シルエット、マルチタッチ/タッチパッド、←iPhone/iPad、ベクタ

マルチタッチインターフェースで使えそうなアイコン集。仕様書に使おう。

Multi-Touch Icons

Icons for the multi-touch world.

ジェスチャーアイコン集　かなり使える

task in mind. This means their tunnel vision is already on, they

Some good commentary on how the iPad UI is a new class of different (via @DaringFireball)

we're simple & complicated

If you leave features in your application just because half a dozen people actually use them, you’ll end up with Microsoft Word.

Keeping a clean and unclogged interface is a concept that I think it's familiar and shared by most of the people here. I like how this blog put them together. It's a lot about usability in the end.

Removendo caracteristicas.

Tips and insights into good design and usability.

prezi

3d user interfaces

Guidelines for form design.

一篇說明Mobile上表單的優使化設計建議的文章

Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list

Good article on ways to design forms for mobile devices

Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields.

USER EXPERIENCE RULES

mocking web pages., wireframes

なるほど色ね。色とオーラと関係していると言っていたフランス人の友人もいたもの…

read this

#content #webdev #writing How to plan website contents http://to.ly/1pHl

Good info on content management process.

There are a lot of strong opinions about the magic number 5 in usability testing and much has been written about it. Here's another one.

ブラウザ上でモックアップを作る

Mockup and prototype tool

Lumzy is a Mockup and Prototype creation tool for websites and applications.

"http://place

A quick and simple image placeholder service http://placehold.it/

"Users pay attention to details in a site's writing style, and they'll notice if you use the wrong variant of the English language."

worth a glance, but it's the Brits' fault that they cannot spell things correctly. Use wrong size paper too!

Users pay attention to details in a site's writing style, and they'll notice if you use the wrong variant of the English language.

RT @kevinmarks:»@tomcoates: Nielsen on the fold: http://bit.ly/90qKYr « tl;dr? 'Scrolling beats paging' 'nice morsel at the very bottom'

Guideline/Ru;e of Thumb: Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.

We've been getting a lot of questions in Q+A and on the road at events like last week's Miva Merchant conference, Online Marketing Summit and the YCombinator conference about h...

ユーザビリティ

＠ちゃんと読んでないけど、いつか読むかも

あとで読みましょう

javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1');

javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1'); で新インターフェースに切り替え。v2=0で元に戻す。

Ejector seat switch right next to cabin lights and FM radio. Brilliant.

"If we should make UI elements we want users to click on large, and ideally place them at corners or edges for maximum clickability -- what should we do with UI elements we don't want users to click on? Like, say, the "delete all my work" button?"

this is a really good article about UI design: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/03/the-opposite-of-fitts-law.html

I agree with this advice.

Key Elements to Website Design

滞在時間が長いと広告よく見るとさ。

umu.

よく見られる広告 ・1PVあたりの滞在時間が長いページ（動画を見ている時、ネットで暇つぶしをしている時など） ・専門メディア無いでかつユーザーの関心にマッチしている

滞在時間と専門性

How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility

Designing a website that's as much successful as it is effective takes time, skills, and a lot of testing. Normally, when we're talking about web design and we hear the word testing, the first thing that comes to mind is usability, and that's fine, but when was the last time you sat down to analyze the level of accessibility of your website? Testing on other aspects of your website are important, however, a lot of us seem to neglect our websites accessibility. This can ultimately lead to the loss of a wide range of users and poor elements of design. But not to fear, below we've compiled a set of tools that will help you combat poor accessibility. Every tool is free to use and has been chosen because it's easy to use and offers quality testing.

8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility

effective

Designing a website that’s as much successful as it is effective takes time, skills, and a lot of testing. Normally, when we’re talking about web design and we hear the word testing, the first thing that comes to mind is usability, and that’s fine, but when was the last time you sat down to analyze the level of accessibility of your website?

Browser Size

Wonderfully useful tool. End the debate!

Great tool

この4月、新しい事業年度のスタートに合わせ、各社のWebサイトが相次いでリニューアルした。ここでは、3月下旬～4月にかけて大規模なリニューアルを実施したWebサイトを編集部でピックアップし、リニューアル前後の画面写真付きで紹介する。

Unnatural experiments in web design | http://cli.gs/2gyJ5Z **Must see for every #ux designer [from http://twitter.com/MikevHoenselaar/statuses/2109009831]

Paul Annet, from Clear Left

Knowledge management and competitive research community for user experience design on the web.

Ce qu'il faut faire et ne pas faire dans un test d'ergonomie - UXmatters http://bit.ly/aPlEaU #ergonomie

Do’s and Don’ts of Usability Testing

Testing with 10 to 12 participants tends to provide very little additional value over testing with 6 to 8 participants, despite the significantly increased cost of testing with more participants. Iterative usability testing also has the advantage of more easily fitting into agile development cycles.

usabilidad arquitectura libros

Descubre cómo mejorar tus sitios web, software, hardware y productos de consumo para que sean más útiles para más personas en más tipos de situaciones. “Simplemente pregunta: Integración de la accesibilidad en el proceso de diseño” te ayuda a desarrollar de forma adecuada soluciones de accesibilidad efectivas.

Libro online

RT @BoraZ: RT @Mediabistro Big news overnight: Facebook is launching something called "Facebook Lite." http://bit.ly/HuGU6 [from http://twitter.com/matushiq/statuses/3266684526]

post that broke the FBlite news

This will be breaking news on CNN 10 minutes from now.

web tools

i think this explains itself

ユーザー中心のための設計やらデザインやらをするための標準的なワークフローがまとまっています。このページ日本語に訳してくれる人いたらいいんですけどねぇ。

maps maps maps!!!

The use of maps in web design

So remember: 1. Fantastic visuals grab visitors attention 2. Great headlines encourage action 3. Float your best content to the top 4. Make important content stand out 5. WIIFM 6. Fewer questions boost conversions 7. Run usability tests 8. Test, repair, and retest

Based on the feedback of many of our customers, as well as our own experiences, we have prepared a set of 8 ‘best practices’ to help you boost conversion rates and improve site usability.

reverse-engineering user interface to allow mashup of applications, supposedly

Imagine if every interface was open source. Any of us could modify the software we use every day. Unfortunately, we don't have the source. Prefab realizes this vision using only the pixels of everyday interfaces. This video shows using Prefab to add new functionality to Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes, and Microsoft Windows Media Player. Prefab represents a new approach to deploying HCI research in everyday software, and is also the first step toward a future where anybody can modify any interface.

Recasting the experience as a game means it can be simultaneously complex and easily learnable. That's something we couldn't accomplish through traditional applications, which are designed to be usable but not necessarily fun. They've failed to design for fun. And in an era of ubiquitious web community , that's a big mistake.

Diseñar aplicaciones como si se tratara de juegos. Plantear el aprendizaje de nuevas aplicaciones a través de ir aprendiendo a utilizar las herramientas que se le ofrece. Ejemplo: stackoverflow.

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do to improve the signal to noise ratio. Perhaps that was actually the point I was really trying to make: that using these game elements is an excellent way to improve the quality of interactions. I'm still convinced there is a way to have a civilized discussion online with complete strangers, but we haven't gotten there yet. The only really viable way I can see is heavy-handed moderation. When I say heavy-handed, I mean don't allow users to post "me too!" replies. Don't allow straying wildly off-topic. Don't post threads just to chat in specialized forums. And for heaven's sake, don't ever let people talk about other forum peop

Thesis: the internet is like a giant MMORPG.

game mechanics in everyday life

It's not often that new user interface conventions are born - or popularized. Even less so within the realm of web development. I'd argue that Sparklines and Lightbox are two of the best examples of UI conventions that were popularized on the web.

The first thing I do when I want to cut out some words is not read the original version. I just write a new one.

DETTE er copywriting av høg klasse og teksttrimming med riktig fokus: Kort og handlingsorientert, dvs selgande.

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” - Mark Twain An example of rewriting text to be shorter and more focused.

しっかり読みたい。

あとでよむ

* 知る・感じる・疑問に思う * 解釈する・発想する・組み立てる * 具体化する・検証する・洗練させる * 仕事をはじめ、終わらせる

Herramienta para test de navegación rápidos en páginas web

モックアップのユーザビリティーをテストできるサイト

test de usabilidad que los diseñadores web

25 godina GUI interfejsa

The Macintosh was introduced January 24, 1984. In fact, the Mac was originally manufactured in the Fremont, California building that now houses Nielsen Norman Group.... Summary: Although its individual features weren't new, the Mac offered integration, the expectation of a GUI, and interface consistency.

"Although its individual features weren't new, the Mac offered integration, the expectation of a GUI, and interface consistency. " Nielsen kommenterer hva Mac har betydd for utviklingen av GUI, og hvor iPhone bør ta oss nå.

He points to "usability" as the great triumph of the Mac. Not only is the platform more successful than ever, but the computing world wouldn't even resemble the one we know without it.

ユーザビリティに関する、様々な格言。誰か上手な日本語にしてくれないかな？

As we build more and more Ajaxy applications, and our apps reside on a single page, the browser’s native back button can get more and more broken. This episode will show you how to re-enable the back button on your apps.

How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience

Active Listening consists of a set of communication techniques

Retour sur les bancs de la FAQ http://bit.ly/cvUxjq

An exploration of the whys and wherefores of website FAQs. (Maybe you shouldn't need one.)

I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on. There have been times when I can’t imagine how we would have solved a particular problem without them. Yet there are also times when I’ve been completely exasperated at the amount of time and energy they’ve consumed, seemingly to very little reward...

It’s time designers stepped up to the plate and claimed wireframes as their own.

"Do you think you can write an editor which can replace Emacs for me? Here are a few features, taken both from my years of customizing Emacs to meet my needs and some basic features in Emacs itself that non-natives never seem to understand."

The Emacs Test I use Emacs. However, unlike some Emacs users, I don't treat it as a religion. In fact, I'd rather be using a more "modern" IDE; one that understands my code on a deeper level and provides things like refactoring tools, integrated debugging, and "view method implementation" that work reliably and

What makes Emacs hard to replace.

Web forms interface gallery

Research into how Web browsers apply CSS properties/values onto form elements.

Research into how Web browsers apply CSS properties/values onto form elements. Browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 - Internet Explorer 6 - Internet Explorer 7 - Internet Explorer 8b2 - Firefox 1.5 - Firefox 2 - Firefox 3 - Opera 8.5 - Opera 9 - Chrome1 - Netscape Navigator 7.2 Operating System: Mac OS - Windows OS CSS Properties: background-color - background-image - border: 0 - border-color - border-style - border-width - color - font-family - font-size - font-weight - height - letter-spacing - line-height - margin - padding - text-align - text-decoration - width - text-indent - word-spacing Form Elements: Input-Radio Buttons- Input-File Upload - Textarea - Input-Text - Input-Checkboxes - Select-Multiple Items - Select-Single Item - Submit Button

Nice piece detailing the importance of emotional design in interface design.

Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users

We’re changing. Our relationships online and in real life are shifting as we become more public with our private lives. Online social networks have helped our real world social networks transcend time and space making it easy (and seemingly essential) to share the triumphs, tragedies, and trite moments of life. No longer do you simply tell your best friend that you’ve broken up with your boyfriend. It feels natural to many people to tell hundreds of Twitter followers, and Facebook friends. No matter how you feel about the appropriateness of over sharing, the shift towards a public private life is changing our expectations of the relationships we create online. Remember the websites of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s that used formal language to create a professional, guarded persona and brand? The trend was towards the serious, because it seemed like you couldn’t land clients or entice new users if you weren’t stuffy.

The challenge of learning a totally new Windows behavior is the cost of getting this huge step forward in UI. The superbar makes Windows way more conducive to running tons of applications, since it's actually possible to find apps and precisely the window you want in a second, no matter how bad the shitstorm on your desktop is. In this sense, it's a better application manager than the Dock, from which, generally speaking, you can't do much more than jump to open applications or close them.

If the Windows 7 Taskbar is a sign of things to come, Microsoft might be dangerously close to building the first operating system since MS-DOS 6 that doesn't make me want to punch my computer screen. I'm still not convinced that Windows 7 won't be a colossal screw-up (these are, after all, the folks who brought you the Red Ring of Death, the new crappy XBox Live user interface, and Windows Vista), but at least it looks like they managed to get *something* right.

Bad IA is now the greatest cause of task failures because it's the stumbling block for getting anywhere on a site. Users try to find their way around a site, and if they're particularly motivated, they might even try again if they fail. But if users are repeatedly led in circles or dumped into no-man's land by weak search, they give up and leave for another site. That's why deficiencies in your IA are costing you a lot of money, right now.

Opening article reference for project

この連載では、PCのWebサイトとは異なるモバイルならではのユーザビリティに特化して、モバイルサイト構築におけるユーザビリティの基本、成果を出すためにはどうすればいいのか。制約の多いモバイル端末だからこそ求められるモバイルサイトのユーザビリティ、そのポイントをお伝えします。

It's all right here: "Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each issue among themselves, invariably going for the option that might amuse a user the most, that would give a user the most pleasure, and therefore imbue the Mac with personality."

How something as simple as a shaking password box helps technology have a personality.

Designing for Social Interaction Strong, Weak, and Temporary Ties By Paul Adams Senior User Experience Researcher at Google. I'm the research lead for sociability, and I work with teams building products and features for the social web. I've previously worked as a User Experience consultant at Flow (working with the BBC, The Guardian, Vodafone, London Underground, and others), and as an Industrial Designer at Dyson.

RT @timkastelle: Terrific post! Can't find who mentioned it first - Designing for Social Interaction http://bit.ly/axYN9P

Beautiful Background Image Navigation with jQuery - http://bit.ly/d84kmv – jQuery (jquery) http://twitter.com/jquery/statuses/13483563601

メニューとともに背景画像もかっこよく切り替わるナビゲーションを作るチュートリアル記事です。

18 Dos and Don’ts Of Usability On The Web

If you’re designing websites for a living or running your business online, there are 18 tips in this article that you should definitely read and remember.

Googleが目指す最高の検索UI

グーグルの検索ユーザーインターフェースの仕事をしていると言うと、友人たちは一様に「いったい何をするんだ？何も変わっていないじゃないか」と言います。そして、疑わしげに私を見て、せっかくの良いものを下手に変えないでくれとも言います。「心配には及ばないよ。グーグルは今までどおり、簡単で早くてわかりやすいページのままだよ」「それは良かった。でも、そのメンテナンスのどこが難しいっていうんだ？」

googleに入るしかない。あとで読む。

* 小さなページ * 複雑なアルゴリズムをシンプルに表示 * どこででも使える機能 * データに基づいた決定－実験、実験、とにかく実験

2009.06.25

ここに書いてある内容は注意した方がいいと思う。

I liked this article - particularly as Rob and I were looking at the washington post site for other reasons earlier

Send examples of links and buttons that interrupt a website visitor's ability to take an action, specifically "nuke" buttons that kill conversions. Post the URL in the comments area of this blog, or send a screen shot by email to http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/contact-us/. For instance, why would a "Clear Form" button be next to a "Place Order" button? Does the website owner want visitors to cancel the order accidentally? Or how about buttons with drop down menus that get in the way when a visitor is trying to fill in a search box? Does the website owner want visitors to click away from that page by accident instead of searching the site? Let's see a collection of these bloopers.

FAQ QA

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen thinks your innovative iPad UI is too "weird." I think he should, just maybe, stop worrying about a "back" button.

"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems. "

iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.

15 clever and unique ui solutions from designshack

Apparently they all ditched their other computers within a day. willnotgetanipadwillnotgetinanipod

y wife asserted her rightful place in the hierarchy later that evening, and took it upstairs to the bedroom to relax while watching TV. Tap, tap, tap. Occasionally, she showed me something interesting she found online. And smiling.

l the PCs and laptops are basically not being used.  All the Macs are not being used.  All have been powered off. Everyone in the family is waiting for their turn at the

In our past articles, we’ve experimented with better ways to engage users on web pages with CSS3. We love getting into the nuts and bolts of web design by showing off some nifty coding tricks. In this article we’ll take a step back to provide some reasoning for designers to embark on that next redesign.

deconstruccion de sitios web populares

When you're ready to launch your website, you'll want to give visitors the best user experience possible. Learning to evaluate a website effectively is part art and part science, but it's a skill that can be learned. To develop an eye for what works on a website and what doesn't, there are few simple techniques that help you critique your website in 30 seconds or less.

Jakob Nielsen/Nielsen Norman Group.

ユーザーインターフェースの大御所、ヤコブ・ニールセンが93ページにわたる、iPadのユーザビリティレポート。

disambiguity - pretty design pending

Design should never be democratic, and that's easier to accomplish in a community than in a committee.

Livros de UX para ler em 2010

Your front page is the most important page you’ll make. Without it, you’ve got nothing: nobody signs up, nobody gets to see how cool your product is. It is your most effective advertising tool. Take advantage of it.

Horrible, HORRIBLE advice. Do not listen to this fool folks.

Screencasts to accompany the book

Some choice observations on UX including: ‘People can only look at so much information or read so much text on a screen without losing interest. Only provide the information that's needed at the moment (see progressive disclosure...).’

Umfangreicher Guide einer Psychologin zu guter Usability

L'avis d'un psychologue sur la création d'interfaces utilisateurs

Adds a virtual keyboard to text fields, password fields and textareas allowing keyboardless input of text and special characters. Install the script and double-click on one of the form element types above to display the keyboard.

Adds a virtual keyboard to text fields, password fields and textareas allowing keyboardless input of text and special characters. Install the script and double-click on one of the form element types above to display the keyboard.

to get around keylogging, keyloggers

in making attractive designs, but I think they can (and should!) be applied when designing user interfaces. This post

Graphic design has 4 basic principles that appear to varying degrees in all well designed works; Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. They are there to help guide you in making attractive designs, but I think they can (and should!) be applied when designing user interfaces. This post will show you how. Anyway, I like the acronym!

How to make your user interface CRAP: http://tinyurl.com/6o79yz [from http://twitter.com/tadej/statuses/913793683]

对比，重复，对齐，近似

google android

元ネタの英文ページでは、PDFをダウンロードできるとともに、もうちょっと細かい解説が載っています。

ユーザビリティチェック!!

読む！

サイト公開前に。。。

Tips

Since its release in 2007, the last volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has garnered 3,286 reviews from Amazon.com customers. While response has been overwhelmingly positive for the book, several hundred Amazon customers rated the book as mediocre or worse. Because of a very subtle yet clever feature, Amazon makes the best of both the positive and negative reviews easy to find. And that feature, based on our calculations, is responsible for more than $2,700,000,000 of new revenue for Amazon every year. Not bad for what is essentially a simple question: "Was this review helpful to you?"

eCommerce UI design principles for shopping features

Análise do sistema de qualidade dos reviews de produtos da Amazon, como foi usado para dar maior destaque às melhores reviews, sem influência editorial, de maneira auto-gerenciada.

"Because of a very subtle yet clever feature, Amazon makes the best of both the positive and negative reviews easy to find. And that feature, based on our calculations, is responsible for more than $2,700,000,000 of new revenue for Amazon every year. Not bad for what is essentially a simple question: "Was this review helpful to you?""

Was this review useful to you?

Because of a very subtle yet clever feature, Amazon makes the best of both the positive and negative reviews easy to find. And that feature, based on our calculations, is responsible for more than $2,700,000,000 of new revenue for Amazon every year. Not bad for what is essentially a simple question: "Was this review helpful to you?"

Dashboard design

looks nice, long live wordpress, the standard bearer for open source design efforts.

"The whole experience was probably best summed up by Amanda who, when asked why it was taking us so long to get the machine up and running, and why we all looked so unhappy, replied 'Oh, it’s just so…Microsofty.'"

Basking in the glow from our brand-new tabletop touch screen computer, we are greeted with…. not a glossy “welcome” montage, but a standard, legal disclaimer that asks if we accept the terms & conditions.

On using a Microsoft Surface for the first time.

this guy thinks the way I do

On setting up a new Microsoft Surface touch-screen, "no keyboard or mouse" computer, and discovering (among other issues, like where the power cord goes, or what color 'rhodamine' is), that one 'undocumented feature' is that a keyboard and mouse are required to boot the thing: "The whole experience was probably best summed up by Amanda who, when asked why it was taking us so long to get the machine up and running, and why we all looked so unhappy, replied 'Oh, it's just so...Microsofty.'"

Gordon Miller går gjennom den frustrerende opplevelsen det er å sette opp Microsoft Surface.

使用するケースは思い浮かびませんが、フォームに入力した内容をその場でページ内に表示するためのｊQueryプラグインの紹介。

Googleウェブサイトオプティマイザーで効果的なデザインを提供する方法

Webサイトオプティマイザー

GoogleウェブサイトオプティマイザーでABテストをやってみた記事

Ethan Marcotte schreibt auf A List Apart über verantwortungsvolles Web-Design und seinen Versuch eines Flexible Grids. Umfrangreich, aber lesenswert.

from Event Apart Boston

About creating flexible web layouts that adapt to screen size.

An excellent article by Ethan Marcotte that's very relevant for designing for mobile devices and flexibility ...

Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing (via @AListApart): http://bit.ly/azRGR0 (via @Loop11)

iPad

The archive is one of those often-overlooked parts of a website that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Too often it’s thrown on a page that’s no different from any other page on the website, or it’s ignored altogether. The archive offers a lot of room for creativity, though. Whether you opt for an abbreviated one in the sidebar or footer or devote an entire page to it, the archive an opportunity to make your design stand out.

So why didn’t they choose HTML5 and build a custom viewer application around WebKit?

I just downloaded the Wired iPad application, and like most iPad applications (and most magazines for that matter), I found myself bored with it within the first 20 minutes. I’m sure the content is engaging, I’m sure the articles are worth reading – but I am stumped as to why I would chose this over the physical magazine itself, or their website for that matter. In fact, for reasons I’ll get into below, I’m starting to believe that the physical magazine’s “interface” is vastly superior to it’s iPad cousin. However, what strikes me most about the Wired app is how amazingly similar it is to a multimedia CD-ROM from the 1990’s. This is not a compliment and actually turns out to be a fairly large problem… 1990’s Here We Come … Again

at you can’t do application specific

A really good take on how iPad is not really delivering "Value" with their iPad magazines..

Great rationale points and starting tidbits.

Designers often don’t take the time they should to learn about how basic psychological principles can effect the experience their visitors have on the sites they build. Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. But the truth is that they’re neither.

"Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. But the truth is that they’re neither"

Allow the negative space on your site to direct your visitors to the areas you want them to focus on. By combining empty space and properly styled and proportioned elements, you can encourage your visitors to look at a certain thing and take a desired action.

good

changing text content and changing button color

Boas praticas de design

a new post just doesn’t seem so simple a process to me. I ha

mobile-google inspired floating toolbar

How Not To Run An A/B Test

Interesting argument (with statistical rationalisation) explaining why A/B tests should be run to a fixed number of observations. Advises against pushing a winner too quickly.

A good article which suggests not ending an A/B test too soon just because it has reached 95% confidence.

Check out this infographic poster about user centred design: http://bit.ly/UCDposter

"This is an information graphic poster illustrating the underlying lifecycle, methods, principles and techniques in a user centred design process where the visual part is only the tip of the iceberg."

This is an information graphic poster illustrating the underlying lifecycle, methods, principles and techniques in a user centred design process where the visual part is only the tip of the iceberg. This project is the result of my work experience at City ID, an information design studio with international reputation. The poster sums up many of the things that I’ve learnt during my time working with them. It also draws inspiration from practitioners who I admire and from a Digital Media module that I took at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland which was taught by visiting lecturer and user experience designer Eva-Lotta Lamm.

is a good and beautiful infographic Poster by Pascal Raabe, summarizing what is to design with the user in mind.

This blog is about the business aspects of running Bingo Card Creator, a small software company. A brief summary of the last few years is available here. If you like what you see, I encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Friday Links 18/06/10

an article and examples about breadcrumbs

RT @draenews: Del Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience | Webdesigner Depot: http://bit.ly/afWXUZ

I’ve blogged before about my dissatisfaction with news sources (eg, 1, 2), and earlier in the year I realised that one of the major problems online was delivery of text-based news. There was no online news source that I could browse and read as easily as I could a print newspaper. I identified three main issues that a better online news-reading solution should address: Friction Readability Finishability

Interesting article on the design of a modern day web newspaper.

This meant, for me, ditching any kind of conventional news website front page, or contents page. No lists of headlines, no decisions about which article to visit. Unusually, perhaps uniquely, for a news website the front page is a single story. Ideally this is the most important news of the day, although sometimes it’s the newspaper’s “other” front page item — it’s based on the order of articles here. Having a single story on the front page is terrible if a site wants to maximise page views and advertising etc. You might see that one article, think it’s boring, and go elsewhere. But that’s not my concern. I’m trying to make a site that makes it easy to read a newspaper, not support an entire company.

I’ve made a new thing, Today’s Guardian, a website that features today’s edition of the Guardian (or the Observer on Sundays). Hopefully it’s as easy to browse through today’s newspaper as it would be with the print edition. It’s made using the Guardian’s Content API. Read on for the thoughts behind it…

Today’s Guardian

agenda2 signup

Rediseño de registro en twitter implicando más al usuario= aumento de nuevos usuarios

Gutes Praxisbeispiel für die Optimierung von Registrierungs-Prozessen. Besonders wichtig: Nutzer müssen so früh wie möglich einen Mehrwert für sich sehen, dann erst Daten eingeben. Twitter hat jetzt zwar mehr Formularschritte und längere Registrierungsdauer aber bessere Conversion

Twitter signup process walkthrough

"An accessible image replacement method using pseudo-elements and generated-content. Works with images/CSS off; semi-transparent images; doesn’t hide text from screen-readers or search engines; and provides fallback for IE6 and IE7."

"An accessible image replacement method using pseudo-elements and generated-content. This method works with images and/or CSS off; works with semi-transparent images; doesn’t hide text from screen-readers or search engines; and provides fallback for IE6 and IE7."

Great idea

An accessible image replacement method using pseudo-elements and generated-content. This method works with images and/or CSS off; works with semi-transparent images; doesn’t hide text from screen-readers or search engines; and provides fallback for IE6 and IE7.

ou need to support them you’ll have to rely on the Phark method. This can be do

Interesting idea: CSS image replacement with pseudo-elements (NIR) - http://bit.ly/aLSBtX #css (via @Malarkey) – Smashing Magazine (smashingmag) http://twitter.com/smashingmag/statuses/16412194331

CSS image replacement with pseudo-elements (NIR) /by @necolas http://j.mp/9cX1IB #css #webdesign

疑似要素を使った CSS による画像置換。

Some interesting insights into the different interactions and social experience of iPad vs. iPhone in a retail setting.

Studying how using Square on the iPad worked different than on the iPhone.

#iPad vs. #iPhone: A User Experience Study http://ow.ly/208ep #UX #Usability

UX Myths http://uxmyths.com/ (via @igloodigital)

Tumblr about misconceptions of UX.

A lot of this is common knowledge for most UX designers, but there are still some interesting nuggets of information.

E-commerce: Fundamentals of a Successful Re-Design - http://bit.ly/9y7kL9 – Smashing Magazine (smashingmag) http://twitter.com/smashingmag/statuses/15996416405

RT @KISSmetrics: 10 Steps To A More Usable Ecommerce Website http://kiss.ly/ai5T5C #webdesign

VeriSign

50 jQuery Plugins for Form Functionality, Validation, Security and Customisation http://bit.ly/b9KZDo #jquery

RT @Jake_Hird: Light reading for a Friday afternoon: The ultimate guide to A/B testing http://ow.ly/23gk2 #yam

Remember when mom always told you to eat your vegetables? Little did you know she was giving you fantastic advice for managing your Web strategy. In these days of Twitter, Facebook, forums, blogs and more, it can be tempting to skip over the basics and dive headfirst into an oh-so-tempting dish of social media or SEO "tricks." Businesses of all sizes are pigging out on social media without putting an equal amount of effort into forging a solid foundation built on a user-friendly Web experience and great content. To deliver a site that gives users the experience they are looking for, we need to set it upon a solid foundation of content, usable navigation, and strong SEO practices. With this in mind, let’s take a look at what I call the "The Web Strategy Pyramid" (a tip of the hat to the FDA’s Food Pyramid for the inspiration).

Jason Schubring

Let's take a look at what I call the The Web Strategy Pyramid.

Usabilitat explicada en videos

RT @deliciouspb: Web application development guide - Salford City Council http://bit.ly/cKaG8A

Really good HTML style guide.

@snipeyhead Tynt, "It’s a bunch of user-hostile SEO bullshit." http://bit.ly/9dsFbP - If Apture avoids stories like this, should do ok. – Ben Shive (BenSS) http://twitter.com/BenSS/statuses/17430682535

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text

I found Wired Science doing this bullshit just now, when saving a bookmark to an article there. Very disappointing, guys.

Tynt is a service that automatically forces a link reference into your clipboard when you copy text from web sites using them. Worth blocking.

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text.

of where to find and how to edit your hosts file on Mac OS X or Window

Nielson compares Kindle to iPad reading speeds

Possible ECOO

Summary: A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.

A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.

Nielsen säger att det går snabbare att läsa bok än e-bok. Testat på 24 personer- http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html

Studie: Vergleich von Lesekomfort bei Kindle, iPad, PC

Users rarely begin their relationship with a company though its About page. More often than not, they learn about us based on what we do, the product or service that we offer. Why, then, should they want to learn more? About pages help users discover who lives behind the websites we create.

RT @draenews: Del 9 Usability And UX Pitfalls, And How To Avoid Them: http://bit.ly/cVVwO2

RT @draenews: Del 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design: http://bit.ly/blN9sT

10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design

1. Design can change businesses 2. Design is more than pretty pictures 3. Talks benefits not features 4. Thinks in flows not screens 5. Doesn’t make the user think 6. Starts with a great story 7. Uses design as a lever 8. Gets out of the office 9. Has a bible 10. Repeats & refines

Psychological Study of Web Designs | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials - http://abduzeedo.com/psychological-study-web-designs

Does SharePoint Destroy Intranet Design?

Great article on the difference between intranets and internet websites from the design standpoint.

Working around hover states for touchscreens

interesting piece on differences between pointer and touchscreen devices: 'non hover' - diff b/t gallery and web for us http://is.gd/dknDz

ideas for making the home page content and article teasers better

Copywriting

"design and copywriting are two sides of the same coin; inseparable in every way"

【deli_post】The Importance of Copywriting in Web Design | Design Shack http://goo.gl/NBAf #deli_post

ideas for making the home page content and article teasers better

Copywriting

【deli_post】The Importance of Copywriting in Web Design | Design Shack http://goo.gl/NBAf #deli_post

ideas for making the home page content and article teasers better

Copywriting

【deli_post】The Importance of Copywriting in Web Design | Design Shack http://goo.gl/NBAf #deli_post

ideas for making the home page content and article teasers better

Copywriting

"0.1 seconds gives the feeling of instantaneous response... 1 second keeps the user's flow of thought seamless... 10 seconds keeps the user's attention... After 10 seconds, they start thinking about other things..."

Свежий Alertbox от Jakob Nielsen’а. В общем, ничего нового, люди все еще не любят ждать, тем более ждать пока, загрузиться какой-то там сайт.

Website Response Times

Slow page rendering today is typically caused by server delays or overly fancy page widgets, not by big images. Users still hate slow sites and don't hesitate telling us.

0.1 sec 1 sec and 10 sec rules

【deli_post】The Importance of Copywriting in Web Design | Design Shack http://goo.gl/NBAf #deli_post

ideas for making the home page content and article teasers better

Copywriting