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Creating a Usable Contact Form

By: Matthew Kammerer September 1st, 2009 38 Comments

There are some simple steps you can take to create the best bridge possible between you and your clients. The most effective way is through a contact form on your site that will allow users to communicate with you or your business. It is an essential component for any person who is looking to hear feedback as well as anything else their viewers want to suggest.

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Creating a Usable Contact Form

Introduction to Product Usability Testing

By: Redd Horrocks August 25th, 2009 4 Comments

Usability is one of those crucial elements of a product that we tend to take for granted. When you pick up an object and use it, you often don’t think about the countless hours and immeasurable thought that has gone into making that item do what it’s intended purpose is.

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Introduction to Product Usability Testing

FeedBurner Finally Adds Customization for RSS-to-Email Syndication

By: David Leggett August 18th, 2009 6 Comments

It’s now possible to customize subject lines in your RSS-to-Email syndication through FeedBurner—a feature that communicates better with the user, and can greatly increase the number of people who actually read your email.

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FeedBurner Finally Adds Customization for RSS-to-Email Syndication

The Rise of Conversation Media

By: Rein Henrichs August 12th, 2009 13 Comments

While you’ve probably heard the saying, “Content is King,” the sites that reign supreme in today’s Web world don’t just produce great content, they create a culture of passionate participants and a community of conversation.

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The Rise of Conversation Media

Foundations of Affordances

By: Andrew Maier August 4th, 2009 12 Comments

Last week I was honored to give a talk at the Front End Design Conference titled “Affordances in Modern Web Design.” In preparation for the talk, I did plenty of research; and while the slides are available for download, I’d like to provide readers with a written overview of the history and application of affordances in web design

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Foundations of Affordances

5 Web Accessibility Improvement Tools

By: Matthew Kammerer July 28th, 2009 25 Comments

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.

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5 Web Accessibility Improvement Tools

Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

By: David Leggett July 14th, 2009 57 Comments

With Photoshop, are you really paying attention to how you’re saving images for the web? Optimizing images can drastically decrease load times when done properly!

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Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

Recommended Books for your User Experience and Usability Library

By: Redd Horrocks July 9th, 2009 27 Comments

In my last article, I gave examples of the key things that I learned from Steve Krug’s great book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition. In that article, I asked people to share key books in their Usability and User Experience libraries. I also asked our Twitter followers and here are what other UXBooth readers had to recommend.

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Recommended Books for your User Experience and Usability Library

10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think

By: Redd Horrocks July 7th, 2009 44 Comments

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.

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10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think

How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split Testing

By: John Hyde July 6th, 2009 33 Comments

Ever had the desire to change something on your website, but you were afraid the change might have a negative impact on performance? Welcome to A/B Split testing, the practice of testing multiple variations of the same site to see which works better.

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How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split Testing
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