User Experience
New Browser Windows
When a user clicks a link on your (or any, for that matter) website, they expect the new web page to appear in its place. To navigate back to places they have come from, they click a ‘Back’ button on their browser. This has become normal for all internet users and is the experience they expect to have. Breaking the expectations of your users can lead to confusion and disappointment: two words usability experts despise.
It’s amazing to me that this is still a controversial topic.
Making CAPTCHA Usable
In today’s ever complex world of spam, Phil Haack has come up with a refreshingly simple solution for coping with blog and form spam which he calls Honeypot Captcha.
No javascript, completely accessible and easier on your visitors.
Forget about the Fold
In design speak the “fold” is the location of the website at which the visitor needs to scroll to read further. “Above the fold” is a term commonly used by editors and web designers to prioritize important headlines to the user.
My experience shows that most web designers have a preconceived notion that any content of value needs to be displayed above the fold. I believe that this preconceived notion should be challenged since many of the underlying reasons are out of date.
Web Form Fundamentals
The form is the heart and soul of your application. After all, it’s the point of entry for the data in the system. Yet, time after time we stumble across confusing, and time consuming forms. Here are a few of my pointers and pet peeves when it comes to designing these forms.
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- George → “ also make sure that the non www version is always redirected to the www version of the website.…”
- faheem → “ Thanks for the nice tips,…”
- Adobe → “ The problems you are talking about are not Flash issues they are design issues . The problem is not Flash, the problem is that there are very few real designers around anymore. As for the plug in every browser for every platform save iOS has it installed when you download it. I am amazed how…”
- هتل → “ great list of ideas. Without a doubt, you are exactly right. As with all design, there is a time and a place to break every rule.thanks for posting…”
- Randy Cox → “ If you suddenly decided to put stop signs on the side of a barn instead of a metal post on edge of a road, a lot of folks would not stop. If there is a really good reason to change the link color then change it, but there will be a cost to your communication. Henry Ford…”