Articles Tagged 'usability'
55 Super Powerful jQuery Navigation and Menu Plugins
Daniels MekšsNavigation is one of the most important elements in web design. It has to be neat, usable and creative at the same time in order to not scare your visitors away. jQuery is one of the most powerful tools to enhance your navigation and make it stand out. With jQuery you can bring together both the creative and usable. This article will cover 55 fresh and superb jQuery plugins that will make your menus look awesome. Note that all of the listed plugins have been released in the last six months.
10 Useful Tools For Cross-Browser Compatibility Check
Charina TorresSomething that makes a website great is when it is compatible in multiple browsers regardless of version. Technically this is referred to as cross-browser compatibility. Wikipedia defines cross-browser as:
The ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to support all the web browsers.Now, you may be confused on what is the difference between cross-browser and multi-browser. Multi-browser means a website will work in several web browsers like Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer. While cross-browser means a website works in any browser, and any version of the browser, being used.
How Can Web Design Affect A Website’s Bounce Rate?
One thing a blogger or an owner of a website needs to take into consideration of is its bounce rate. This is very important for it tells you on how many visitors are “bouncing” away on your site. A bounce rate determines the success or failure of a website. Wikipedia defines bounce rate as:
A term used in web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who "bounce" away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site.
How To Actually Use Negative Space As Design Element
Stephen GalangNegative space is an important element in making website layouts and logos although it is very tricky to combine negative space in designing but once you are able to do it, it is not something to be overlooked or avoided. I usually call it white space, and to be honest many new designers usually make a mistake of creating chunky websites with too much information in it and without any spacing. But believe me spacing does wonders, for even young designers - you can look professional quickly with minimal website..just put less content use negative space and you'll be more successful than others starting just out.
Email UI Faceoff – GMail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo – The results
Jacob CreechWelcome back to part two of our email UI faceoff - I recently wrote about the usability testing process, and set up a test for comparing the usability of Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Well, the results are in and we've got some pretty interesting feedback from the test - you can get directly to the test results yourself, or read on for our analysis and verdict.
Getting Real Feedback For Your New Design, Usability Testing
Valters BergspicsGetting feedback is very important in each work, because it really can improve our works, see do others react and understand your design the same way you do and of course to let you understand how your readers,visitors think. There are really many websites by now already helping each other to critique artworks, get suggestions, create like demo websites and check how people react on them ( a/b testing), this showcase is focusing on showing you places where to get real people feedback and responses. Here we've have collected various feedback, collaboration tools/websites as well as several sites offering you to create polls really easy - ask in Twitter, Facebook and get responses immediately!
9 Well Designed, Usable Sites, And What Makes Them Great
We recently did a showcase of 9 common usability pitfalls, and how to avoid them, and in the comments there were a lot of questions about the websites we think stand out, and do a great job of both usability and design. Today you can see a list of nine great examples of very usable, well designed websites from a wide range of industries/areas to give you an idea of what makes great, usable design. The more we like a site, the more we use it, and the better result we get for all concerned. Read on to see nine usable sites, and what makes them great.
9 Usability And UX Pitfalls: Learn How To Avoid Them
As the web has matured, design has come along with it, but there are still a number of issues that affect usability and user experience that haven't matured at the same rate as design. If we want to be ahead of the design curve: get more satisfied clients, and happier users, we need to make sure that both we and our clients understand what these points are, and how to solve them.
5 Timeless Usability Principles for Website Designers
DarrenThere are some usability principles which change very rarely. The reason for this is because they are deeply ingrained into our human nature. Even if they change, they change very slightly, the fundamentals remain the same. We will try to cover some most important usability principles in the following article.
