It’s common these days for news-oriented sites to practice ‘link hoarding’ whereby when referencing a topic, rather than linking out to external websites they link mainly to their own internal archive of content about that topic.
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Are Your Error Messages Easily Understood?
As I was finishing installing Microsoft Office on my home PC, I was presented with this alert:
Read MoreA ‘More Natural’ Login Button Placement?
I like the way that My Starbucks Idea login button has been incorporated into the instructional text that goes with it.
Read MoreUsing Web Analytics to Assess CAPTCHA Usability
Recent articles about the impact of CAPTCHAs on conversion rates caused me to look at the web analytics for the CAPTCHA we use on the account signup page for our online game, Warrior Epic .
Read More10 Web Form Design Guidelines Based on Eyetracking
cxpartners have produced a useful set of form design guidelines based on an eyetracking study they did on the signup forms of 4 major websites: GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and eBay.
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Contrasting Design Conventions
Working on a website recently that incorporates a music soundtrack I noticed that audio and video controls function in opposite ways.
The Value of Paper Prototyping
When I was working on the wireframe stage of the NCsoft West web site redesignI began by sketching the main templates out on paper. Read More