Usability vs. Nostalgia : The Amazon Kindle Debate
What are you willing to give up for the sake of Usability? This article explores the idea of the impact of nostalgia in overcoming the desire for a more usable product.
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Usability
How Fluff is Driving Away Your Viewers
Many websites try to win over a users heart through self-promotional welcome messages that often contain very little useful information. It’s no surprise that many (nay, everyone) will ignore this copy, but did you realize that useless fluff can actually prevent users from the actual important stuff?
The Evolution of Door Usability
Over centuries, doors and their locking mechanisms have evolved and changed with different purposes. This post outlines the evolution of this simplex everyday object.
6 Things To Include for a User Friendly Footer
Here are some quick tips to create a user friendly footer, including suggestions of relevant links and information that keeps to standard footer conventions.
Create Effective Search Result Pages
In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and include popular examples to reinforce the ideas presented.
5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable
A 404 Message can be disorienting, but it doesn’t have to be. These tips will explain what’s important about an effective 404 page to get your users going in the right direction.
Quick Usability Checklist
Got a moment to see if your site passes this quick usability checklist? These are some common usability mistakes we encounter on the web while reviewing sites.
A Few Lessons From Real World Usability
We interact with so many objects during our day that we often don’t notice that someone actually stopped to thing about how we were going to use items.
How Test-Driven Development Increases Overall Usability
Usability isn’t just for your users. Today’s development environments have matured into a very practical, agile hybrid. By writing tests before developing, developers increase the speed and resourcefulness of the development process. This article describes what’s unique about test-driven development, and how you can apply it to reinforce your organization’s usability mantra.
Get More Comments with a Better Discussion Experience
This post explores different ways to enhance user experience in blog discussions, while encouraging more viewers to leave comments.
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A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable
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