10 useful Usability findings and guidelines
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable…
F-shaped pattern for reading web content
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your websites words in a pattern that's very different…
Usability crimes you shouldn’t commit
Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights…
How to Socialize User Experience Design
Not so very long ago, conversation around user experience with respect to web design centered around the notion of a website as a single destination. A sticky site built around…
10 tips for better mobile web usability
Mobile web browsing is expected to turn into the next major Internet platform. It is now easy to browse the net from nearly anywhere utilizing mobile devices that fit in…
10 tools to improve your site’s usability on a low budget
Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that…
Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience
Defined as ‘the structural design of shared information environments’, information architecture focuses on bringing the principles of architectural design to the online world. Just like the blueprints of a dream…
An approach to form-field validation
Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field…
Design Patterns: When breaking the rules is OK
We’d like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons should look like, how they should behave and how to…
Designing for device orientation
The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the device, i.e. when switching between portrait and landscape modes. This…