What if you brought in users to test your application and the final result was one big collective yawn. It’s not that the product wasn’t usable -- oh, maybe some minor tweaks to the presentation layer could improve things, but...
SiteKey is a system some sites (notably banking sites) use to prevent customers from logging into fraudulent sites dummied up to look like the actual sites. During registration (or updating an account if it was created pre-SiteKey), the user is...
Most animation being served up on the web serves no purpose other than to distract, irritate, annoy or confuse. Most web interface designers would tell you, rightly so, that as a general rule, it’s better to stay away from animation....
Adobe released its 2007 product suite this past week. As soon as I heard the news I jumped onto the website (adobe.com) to get a glimpse of some of the new product enhancements featured in this new release, dubbed CS...
Interface Designers don’t just design software GUI’s, we design experiences. It is job number One to keep this in mind. We have to understand that experiences are the sum total of all of the circumstances that combine in one moment...
The World Wide Web is not just for informational, or marketing based web sites anymore. These days it’s hard not to run into web sites that behave more like the applications you are used to seeing on your desktop--dynamic, super-responsive,...
The importance of navigation is a given when designing a site. Design it poorly and it’ll have the same effect as having no navigation, i.e., leaving your users lost and confused and rendering your site useless. Taking the time to...
User Research isn't limited to sitting behind a glass window, nervously chomping on MMs while glaring at the hapless user who’s attempting to navigate through your next killer app. There are different types of user research that can be incorporated...
Let me tell you about my day which, for most of you, will sound very familiar (the actions if not the details). When I came home, I was glad to see that not only had my Netflix DVD arrived, my...
Chicago graduate student Kristin Thomas has found a creative way to recycle her spam e-mail by constructing poems using only the subject lines of the unwanted correspondence. “I don’t like to get angry, and I was starting to get angry,”...
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