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Submit a resourceIncreasing Online Sales: Simple Usability Problems To Avoid
When designing an online store, you have to consider many different types of customers: repeat customers, first-timers, people in a rush, etc.…
10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages
Another forehead-smack-worthy curse-laden moment: I’ve filled out a lengthy online form and hit the submit button only to find myself starin…
The Myth of Usability Testing
In 1998, usability expert Rolf Molich (co-inventor with Jakob Nielsen of the heuristic evaluation method) gave nine teams three weeks to evalu…
Rethinking The Fold
Recently I assembled some thoughts regarding The Fold and what we (anyone involved in publishing websites) should do about it. Enjoy!
Smashing Magazine Book Ch 1: UI Design in Modern Web Apps
Smashing Magazine is offering the first chapter of their book, The Smashing Book, for free! Go download and read Dmitry Fadeyev’s words …
A Look Behind The Curtain At YouTube’s User Experience Research
Today YouTube has revealed some of the action that goes on behind the scenes as it continues to tweak its all-important ‘Watch’ page — t…
A UX pattern: Reusable hints with jQuery
Contextual hints are basically help bubbles that pop up as soon as you are in a certain context. They can also serve as an application walkthr…
Graffletopia: Stencils for OmniGraffle
Stencils are a big part of why Graffle is great, so I created Graffletopia to make it easier to find and share cool stencils.
How to Plan a Content Heavy Site
A major project can be intimidating. The first time you take one on, it may even be terrifying. But with a little planning, you will succeed w…
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Mark Boulton: On defining UX
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Usability and the Lowest Common Denominator
Most usability advice follows the “Keep It Simple” principle. But is it really that straightforward to apply this principle to the…
‘UX Professional’ isn’t a Real Job
A web site or app should be the product of a Web Designer and a Web Developer (who occasionally are the same person, as demonstrated by Shaun …
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