Articles Tagged 'UX'
30+ Fresh Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers
Taimur AsgharOverlooking the importance of icons in web designing is a noobish activity as they not only enhance the elegance of website but they also make it more user-friendly providing easy navigation through different content of a website. Finding free high-quality icons from sea of icon resources available is very difficult and time consuming task but don't worry, as today we have collected 35 fresh free icon sets for designers and developers and tried to save you some time.
30 Auto Completion Scripts for Better User Experience
Ahmad HaniaWhen developing web applications and you need to allow users of your application to choose some data like countries, currencies or even tags from a drop down, list or even from a text box, and the data is very large. You need to use an auto completion or suggestion script to make this task easier for the end user. You can always implement your own script if you have the knowledge and the time to do this, but if you can't then you can use a ready to use script. In this article I compiled a list of 30 Auto Completion Scripts to use in you projects.
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.
Email UI Faceoff: Gmail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo!
I recently wrote about 9 well designed, usable websites, and what makes them great. Gmail, as one of my personal favorites, and a site many people love featured in the list, because I think it really is a truly useful, usable website. I was quite surprised to see in the comments a number of people saying that they simply couldn’t agree with Gmail as a pick. This leads to the issue of finding a subjective method for deciding which webmail system is best. How? Read on to find out.
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!
Enhance Forms Using jQuery: 30 Tutorials and Plugins
Forms are very important part of any website, whether it is sign up form, log in form or comment form. These forms are source of interaction between your website and its users. For example if anyone is signing up on your website it will be his/her first experience working on your website and it is said “First Impression Is Last Impression”; if users see your sign up form very elegantly and creatively designed they will have good first impression about your website. Same in the case of all other forms; which play the important role in the success of your website. Today we have rounded up a bunch of jQuery Plugins, Tutorials and Resources which will aid and facilitate you in enhancing the beauty of the various forms present on your website.
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.
How to Create a better FAQ page for end users
Matthew CornerFAQ (Frequently Asked Question) pages have become commonplace on many websites for many reasons. The main, is that they offer a way to provide support, most commonly, customer support, without having to re-iterate solutions to common problems. For larger companies, a good FAQ page can even have an effect on the amount of support staff that are needed to be hired, yet browsing the internet, I continually find FAQ pages to be neglected, and a navigational nightmare. Similarly, Google for some articles on FAQ page design, and you'll find near to nothing that's helpful.
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.
