: As-you-type search suggestions can help users find what they’re looking for quickly. But if implemented inappropriately, they can also derail the user. In this article, UX designer Tyler Tate looks at three unique approaches to search suggestions—completion, query suggestion, and instant results—and considers when to use each. : http://blog.twigkit.com/search-suggestions-part-1/

: Cheerful software, above all, honors the truth about humanity: Humans are not rational beings. A human is a walking sack of squishy meat and liquids, awash in chemicals. : http://cheerfulsw.com/2010/dont-listen-to-le-corbusier%e2%80%94or-jakob-nielsen/

: I was asked to give a talk on a panel about eyetracking at the SES (Search Engine Strategy) conference in Chicago, so it is kind of on my mind. So one more post about eyetracking, and then I’ll move on to different topics! At the conference I talked about the 7 traps to avoid [...]

: An article about a captchas place on today’s websites and some more user-friendly alternatives to using one. : http://matthewlyle.com/internet/captchas-gripes-alternatives/

: In this video master class, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors’ years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available [...]

: It’s not every city eats and thinks and shops in the same way, and the same with website design. The expert will show you four steps for effective cross-cultural website design. : http://aext.net/2010/03/effective-cross-cultural-website-design/

: A discussion on combining the login or signup buttons into one. : http://blog.leahculver.com/2009/11/log-in-or-sign-up.html

: A quick and brief introduction to one of the most important yet often ignored activity of software development and website design which is Prototyping. : http://www.vimeo.com/9421730

: The ultimate goal of usability tests is to obtain the necessary information which will give you the possibility to make an interface so simple and intuitive in use that people can work with it without thinking. In this article I show you how to discover the most prominent interface problems of your website by [...]

: This is the first article in a six part series, in which we will discuss various aspects of using icons for the web! This particular article looks at what icons are and why they can be an important addition, both in terms of usability and aesthetics. : http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/03/30/icons-and-the-web-part-1-why-they-matter/