narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2008 | usability, design, web, article
Quoted: Summary:Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
Jakob Nielsen’s recently published web usage findings on browsing and search behaviors. The findings also reconfirm some of the existing usability guidelines (i.e. E-mail newsletters DO drive users back to the site, open new browser windows is confusing to users, non-standard ui elements are bad idea, ...etc.)
The test subjects to these findings were biased to “richer, intelligent” professionals. If these people are having trouble with understanding website ui, the rest of online users are likely to experience similar pain.
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2007 | usability, event, design, ux, conference
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Quoted: World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better.
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 08 2006 | social, presentation, community, social-networking, usability, design, imported:del.icio.usPutting the Fun in Functional - applying game mechanics to functional software. By Shufflebrain/Amy Jo Kim.
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2006 | design, web, font, typography, usability, blog, agency, ia, article
InformationArchitects Japan is a UI agency with very welll-written blogs. This is part 2 of 2 articles on typography in web design and usability.
Includes common web design mistakes.
Quoted: An avalanche of comments, hundreds of applauding blog entries, honoring honorably mentions from cooler and more sublime and hotter and ...
ShareViewed: 10 Times - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2006 | design, web, typography, usability, blog, agency, ia, article
InformationArchitects Japan is a UI agency with very welll-written blogs. This is part 1 of 2 articles on typography in web design and usability.
Quoted: 95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
Information design is typography
- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2006 | design, IA, reference, resource, stencil, templates, UI, usability, tools, wireframes, imported:del.icio.us
The Information Architecture Institute's Tools project aims to disseminate new IA tools from the community in order to learn from each other. Below you will find document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice. Too
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