Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
The Trouble with Lightbox (and its Variants)
Lightbox is a great image display technique for the modern Web, just be sure it’s still usable!
Building Functional Alt Sites using SWFAddress
When developing a full Flash website, it is very important to provide an effective alternate site for viewing. SWFAddress helps extensively with exactly that.
Link Text: Where Does it Come From?
Link text can have a great effect on the overall effectiveness of any link. Take into consideration both usability and SEO when writing your link text.
Silverback: Making Usability Testing That Much Cooler
Silverback is usability testing software from the group at Clearleft. Here are my initial thoughts on the application itself.
Can we do Better than Dropdowns? Is there even a Problem?
Are dropdown navigations on websites a usability nightmare? Is there a better way to implement a comprehensive site navigation?
Selects, JavaScript, and Usability: Please help.
Driver download interfaces drive me nuts. Attaching JavaScript functions to selects, in my opinion, is just plain wrong from a usability standpoint. How can we better improve this implementation that still finds its way to the Internet, on the largest of corporate websites?
Designing the Obvious – Book Review
Designing the Obvious can be put in same ring as the excellent resource Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, Defensive Design for the Web by Matthew Linderman with Jason Fried, as well as Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger.
Will the iPhone Affect the Mobile Web? How?
What affect (if any) will the iPhone have on the Mobile Web?
Are Sitemaps a Thing of the Past?
The goal of many Web professionals is to produce high quality work that makes the most of their medium. Products are designed to be both aesthetically pleasing as well as elegantly useful. There are many tools and techniques that can be used to make using any website that much easier to use. One thing I don’t find myself running across very often any more are sitemaps. Have sitemaps become a thing of the past?
When Readers Choose to Use Their Own Style
User style sheets can sometimes interfere with author CSS. Most commonly, users don’t create their own style sheet due to the requirement of a working CSS knowledge. Automated scripts adding custom style sheets for users changes things up a bit, however.
