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Infographics are a way to represent information. They should be easy and quick to understand as they usually allow the reader to compare date and see details that, before, were hidden.
Information Dashboards could be defined as the interface for information systems, for example, displaying quality control measurments and the result of procesess. Here I am talking about the dashboards displayed on computer monitors, but keep in min
Sketches are important to test and to show new ideas. As Bill Buxton says on his book, Sketching User Interfaces, it is more important to be able to sketch fast as doing it in a flawless and expensive way.
Accidents are gonna always happen, you can prevent them but nothing is going to stop them happening. Users loosing passwords, usernames, invoices with wrong prices, etcetera, etcetera…
Some of the phones I tried at the shop made me think that some companies just put all the features possible into the smallest device possible without any usability test.
Designing a newsletter that is "usable" is not an easy task but benefits could be huge: more visits and sales could be reached through good newsletter usability and marketing. Let me show you the iTunes Store "alert me" newsletter example...
A small change could improve a website usability a lot. Sometimes, that could also drive a lot a traffic to it. I have a clear example about that. These are the Design vs Art Blog feed subscription stats...
Installing the new Firefox 3 was an easy task. The browser seems to work, on a Mac, better than the previous version. Although that, Firefox still has some usability issues. I don’t want to make a complete review but I would like to highlight the fi
Google public transportation directions is a great tool. With it you can easily know how to get to an specific place using the best combination of buses, trains and other kinds of public transportation. This could be a great success in Europe, where
Pagination is a way to organize information into several web pages, it simply consists in dividing information into numbered pages. This technique comes from the system that has been used to organize information in books since the 16th century.
Every single website want its newsletter flying to potential users’ mailboxes. Of course, they are a great marketing tool if they are well designed and if they behave properly. But websites should be careful and keep in mind that newsletters could m
A favicon is an icon associated to a website or web page, it is also called website icon or page icon. There are several ways to implement it but the most traditional one is placing a favicon.ico image file. This image is going to be displayed in th
White (or blank) spaces are a good thing, at least in web design. As the web becomes more and more faster designers and programmers tend to place more features. At the end of the 90s we saw colors, pictures and sound in an excessive way. Unfortunate
Wordpress is a greet blog tool that I have been using for some time. The new version 2.5 has some improvements, specially on design.
To continue the last article "The Benefits of Mixing Branding and Usability in a Design" I would like to present 10 website logos with tag lines that talk about the aim of those sites. Tag lines tell what a website is about, explaining in a few word
Making a website memorable is not an easy task, competitors are everywhere and everybody wants users to remember their brand. That’s the most logical reason why every website would need a brand with its proper logo. But that’s not the only reason.
This is a great post about the mobile internet and how your website will look on it. It also gives some great tips on how to prepare for the future with your website.
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One of the great things about web2.0 is the use of social power to create product recommendations. For example, Amazon.com recommends books from similar authors and Last.fm recommends similar artists.
The Accordion Effect is fast becoming one of the most commonly used (and perhaps abused?) effects of the Web 2.0 world. So what makes this accordion effect special? It doesn’t require a single line of JavaScript.
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ohn Maeda’s book The Laws of Simplicity gives an explanation about what simplicity means and how it could be applied. He doesn’t write much about the web, he develops the subject in a more general way; simplicity in the every day life, I would say.
Search boxes are very important elements in the web: if customers can not find what they are looking for they will not be able to buy it. Reality is as simple as that.
A login box should be simple, easy to use and should make users’ life easier. It’s not that simple to achieve that, believe me. Not only the login box functionality and design are important but also the environment: avoid distractions and those use
Finally Google Analytics Benchmarking was activated on my account. Some days ago I got an email about it but the feature was not immediatly activated. I was not sure what that could be… now I’m a little bit impress.
Making websites easy to use is something desired and appreciated by users. No wonder why. Computers are becoming more and more powerful but humans not...
I got excited when I received an email from Nokia announcing the new Nokia Music Store. OK, I didn’t get excited at all, Nokia has been sending me promises of good service for a long time. Without success...
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