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UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.
There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.
- Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.
"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw
- In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic xml-blog.com
What I’ve really longed for is an ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser. No flash, no java, darn it - no server even - just a pure HTML / CSS / Javascript solution.
- Real Wireframes Get Real Results - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
Records the position of every click on a page, building up a virtual heat map of visitor activity. It also provides user behaviour analysis, segmentation and tracking.
We design, manage and deliver profitable user experiences.
- Seth's Blog: What I learned from eye tracking sethgodin.typepad.com
The folks at etre were kind enough to do some eye tracking analysis of Squidoo [...] The blue dot shows you where the user is focusing her eyesite... it doesn't measure peripheral vision, which is crucial.
- Dogmas Are Meant to be Broken: An Interview with Eric Reiss - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
It’s not particularly spectacular, and it’s not the Ten Commandments. These are simply why users find [some] sites and devices less usable than others.
- The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
Just as IA/UX/ID designers were settling into a comfortable working rhythm, the next step in the never-ending information architect’s challenge arrived: designing for rich internet applications (RIA).
"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.
"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m
- zooming content | weblog | donotremove donotremove.co.uk
Each page is based on what I'm calling a 'zooming' layout. By that I mean that the information view and relevance on the page zooms out as the page goes down.
- Skip Navigation jimthatcher.com
"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."
The seven easy tips below will drastically improve a site's usability for screen reader users, as well as all other visitors.
- Ajax Mistakes alexbosworth.backpackit.com
Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems.
devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
- Wire Frame Your Site [Design Practice] sitepoint.com
Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems.
content is probably the hardest part of getting any kind of Web site up and running and that it’s made especially so when it comes to working with content outside of your own control.
- What is information architecture? steptwo.com.au
Discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
In essence, a text-only alternative to wireframes.
- Spruced-Up Site Maps: A List Apart alistapart.com
- Digital Web Magazine - Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design digital-web.com · Archived on
Information architecture and Web design are often considered mutually exclusive.
- Boxes and Arrows: Wireframe Annotations in Visio : Special Deliverable #11 boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
First edition, published February 1998 by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, O'Reilly
- UXnet Home uxnet.org
User Experience (UX) is an emerging field concerned with improving the design of anything people experience