UX trends [infographic]
Considering that many aren’t there yet, still some good points, especially in regards to thinking about mobile first and foremost. Responsive design.
0508, 2013
Category Archives: usability
0104, 2013
usability testing mobile for cats
Other common sources of irritation were the pointless presence of instructions as well as any other use of the English language. While human users rarely read instructions, the users in this study didn’t read at all. (there are definitely some user experience and usability points being made here… despite the obvious fun of the whole article – enjoy!) http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-usability-cats/
3011, 2010
Blue beanie day – support web standards!
Our lives as users and coders would be much easier if ALL browsers supported web standards.Thus, arose the blue beanie day to show support for web standards.My haiku:New web journeys waitof Blue beanies sing; old mud walks to break internet You don’t even need to own a blue beanie either (tho I have several). You can fake it here.
0810, 2010
This is from an Adobe press/news release about the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2010 which is intended to “increase access to video programming on television and the internet, require as access to the user interfaces used to access information online via smart phones, and require access to on-screen menus for DVD players and set-top boxes.” Specifically,
0112, 2009
on web standards and accessibility
To me, true accessibility is building one site that works for everybody, disabled or not, and whatever user agent or operating system they prefer. And that is the web I want to build and use. Yup. A good post on web standards and accessibility.
1201, 2008
social networking, library services & web usage – a survey
Interesting survey of 330 students at the University of Michigan; the social networking question was just one question out of the survey. The rest of the survey is kind of interesting, too! ———————–QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you? If not, why? Data/Analysis A total of 23% of respondents
1707, 2007
thoughts on metadata
I answered a question about metadata on a list, and I thought I’d post my answer in an abbreviated form: Yes, it is still important. ;-D Focus on the most relevant terms for a website. At various times, depending on their algorithms, some search engines have truncated keywords at a certain limit 25 words, even 250 characters. Any other that
0502, 2007
Functionality tester for websites
okay, this is a very handy little tool for web editors… It tests functional units of a website (navigation, title, etc.) per best practices. http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/
0201, 2007
CSS generator for tables
Until IE becomes more standards compliant and all browsers began adhering strictly to the w3c coding standards, it will be nearly impossible to create one set of coding that renders beautifully across the various browsers. Many people do use one style sheet, but then include code specifically to work around junky IE. Anyhow, until that time, tables are still not