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How To Improve Usability With Fitts’ and Hick’s Laws

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Consider both laws when creating visual designs. While neither law technically applies to visual design we can perhaps extrapolate some based on the advice in order to improve our designs.

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Posted 25th March 2010
Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding

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In this article, we’ll look at some powerful ways in which we can communicate with our teams in order to unite design and development endeavors; working together in order to understand the kind of story which they want our website to tell, as well as how we can go about telling that story.

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Posted 9th February 2010
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn't Commit

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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 some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website.

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Posted 30th November 2009
15 Helpful Website Usability Facts & Guidelines

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This article explores ways to make web sites more usable for users. It examines the meaning and importance of web site usability and how usability can be considered when designing a website.

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Posted 14th October 2009
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

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Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.

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Posted 28th June 2009
Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices

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Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services. They are a challenge from both a design and usability standpoint. They must be simple but at the same time clearly differentiate between features and prices of different products and services.

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Posted 13th October 2008
Experience vs. Function a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI

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A good user interface (UI) is essential if you want your product to be usable, but you must always be careful to not fall into the trap of focusing too much on that interface. A good UI should fade away, putting content in the front seat it should be transparent.

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Posted 13th October 2008
The Function of Rounded Corners

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What’s the function of rounded corners? We use them simply to add a bit of eye-candy and improve the overall aesthetic of our websites and applications, right?

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Posted 25th September 2008
Creativity and Innovation vs. Predictability

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Web design is a creative art. We’ve all experienced situations where we’ve been wowed by a site with an exceptionally creativity design or functionality. However, we’ve also had frustrating experiences with sites that try too hard to buck the trends and wound up being very unusable. In web design and development, creativity and innovation need to be able to work in harmony with usability, not restrict it.

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Posted 26th June 2008
7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design

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If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

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Posted 22nd April 2008
Achtentachtig design blog

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design and web development blog

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Posted 6th February 2007
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited

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Over two years ago, in September 2004, I posted an article called Styling form controls. My intention with that article (and its follow-up, Styling even more form controls) was to show that attempting to use CSS to make form controls look similar across browsers and operating systems in an exercise in futility. It simply cannot be done.

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Posted 5th February 2007
Accessibility myths and misconceptions

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Awareness of web accessibility is increasing, slowly but surely. You can read about it on mainstream websites and in printed newspapers. Here in Sweden you can even read about web accessibility on the back of milk cartons. Accessibility getting more attention is excellent, but it’s very unfortunate that in many cases the information being spread is inaccurate and misleading.

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Posted 5th February 2007

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