Best practices for web forms
In the past week I’ve come across two useful reviews of best practices for designing web forms. The first is from LukeW’s Functioning Form–he writes about the pros and cons of different label placement...
View ArticleSTC Berkeley writeup on Ajax/Web 2.0
The November/December 2007 of Ragged Left, the newsletter of the STC Berkeley Chapter, is now online. The issue includes my summary of a talk given by Adaptive Path‘s Sarah Nelson and David Verba,...
View ArticleHow to create an interactive PDF prototype in Visio
If you’ve ever tried to communicate a site design via paper, you know the value of also presenting an interactive version with live hyperlinks. Visio users know that it’s pretty easy to create an...
View ArticleHand-drawn UIs for the web
I came across an interesting article on hand-drawn interfaces here. Sometimes a Sharpie and good, strong paper tell the story better — and faster — than a fully fleshed out wireframe. (I must confess...
View ArticleLightbox fatigue
Jacob Nielsen just proclaimed the lightbox the “interaction design technique of the year“: In UI terms, a lightbox draws the user’s attention to a dialog box, error message, or other design element in...
View ArticleFlow charting the bailout
Great design doesn’t make it less depressing, unfortunately. Continued… see the whole scary story on Mint.com.
View ArticleMy favorite spaghetti sauce? Don’t ask me …
I just came across this 2004 TED talk in which Malcolm Gladwell explains why we should NOT ask customers what they want. In the case of spaghetti sauce, at least, we cannot always explain what we want....
View ArticleInteractive, paper-based prototyping idea
I love this! No more excuses for not testing a design. And it looks like fun, so who would want to skip this step? From IDEO. Prototyping for Elmo’s Monster Maker iPhone App. from IDEO on Vimeo.
View Article10 guidelines for effective search results
Despite the ubiquity of search behavior, and well-established conventions for presenting search results, I still see plenty of cumbersome, confusing search tools out there. This article is my attempt...
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