A project I’m currently leading involves setting up a management portal on our intranet.
To that end I need to do a number of card sorting exercises with a variety of users to see how best to organize the big list of resources we’ve come up with.
UX Design
Experiments With and Thoughts About Tag Clouds
We’ve been looking into using tag clouds as an alternative means of navigation for a long lists of links that defy easy categorization.
Read MoreWhat do You Know About Remote Usability Testing?
OK/Cancel recently published a “Guide to Remote Usability Testing”:http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/article/2006/07/guide-to-remote-usability-testing.html which provides an excellent introduction to the subject.
New Conclusions in Usability Testing
July’s issue of the UI Design Newsletter looks at how recent usability research is leading to new conclusions which may have implications for tried-and-true usability testing techniques.
Using Eye Tracking to Optimize Label Placement in Forms
UXMatters has another must-read article in their series on eye tracking and form usability, this time on the effect of “label placement on form usability”:www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000107.php.
How to Calculate When to Add Jump Links to the Top of a Web Page
Previously, I asked the question of when it was appropriate to add within-page links to the top of a page and if there were any specifc guidelines concerning this. Read More
When to Use Jump Links to Navigate Within a Web Page
A site we’re building has a number of long pages and so within our web team we’ve been discussing the use of jump links to make it easier to navigate within those pages.
Branding and the Online User Experience
Jared Spool recently gave a talk at Google about online branding and his research on the intersection between usability, designing for branding, and advertising. The folks at Google very kindly made the video available online (47 minutes).
Read MoreQuestionable Design Decisions Seen Around the Web
Whenever I see things online that don’t make sense to me I always wonder “Why did they do that?” I suspect there must have been a reason, but in most cases I’ll never know.
Read MoreOnline Map Design: Which Way to Zoom In?
Before you read any further, answer this question:
If you were designing the zoom slider for an online map interface, would you put zoom in at the top of the slider and zoom out at the bottom, or the reverse?
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