The color contrast check page has been updated. This is a great tool for checking the accessibility of any font / background color choices. New to me: 30 Days to a more accessible website: Dive into Accessibility Design Daily News has a list of recommendations for better linking using CSS Scobleizer weighs in on the [...]
Category Archives: Usability
Library Usability Links 4/2/09
02-Apr-09Library Usability Links 3/25/09
25-Mar-09Great tongue-in-cheek advice from Boagworld: 10 things a designer would never tell you TechCrunch advises FaceBook to not give in to users Slate agrees with TechCrunch, saying users will get over it Smashing Magazine talks best practices with regard to breadcrumbs UXBooth has an intriguing beginners guide to information architecture Usability Counts reminds everybody to [...]
Nielsen All In for Mega Drop-Downs
23-Mar-09This surprises me a bit because drop-downs have always appeared to cause more trouble than they are worth. Nielsen is saying that drop-downs with the following characteristics perform well
Library Usability Links 3/16/09
16-Mar-09A discussion on persona skepticism over at IXDA Smashing Magazine has a list of 70 Ajax & Javascript techniques Jayson Online has a checklist of 10 web app usability guidelines
Library Usability Links 3/7/09
07-Mar-09Noupe has a fun list of 40 useful & handy designer’s web services & tools. A lot of these I’ve never seen, but will be using. Found in the previous link, this Color Scheme Designer is great. A wiki-based pattern library for Mobile UX Design Another useful list of web design tools and services Dave [...]
Library Usability Links 2/26/09
26-Feb-09A short Harvard Business Review article highlights the importance of ethnographic studies to inform strategy. Via Experientia, Christian Lindholm identifies three layers of UX in mobile phone design: Bling, Control, and Utility Andy Rutledge analyzes the CNN page design for something he labels “quiet structure”. Spoonfed Design identifies six measures of goodness in Apple’s site [...]
Library Usability Links 2/18/09
18-Feb-09Steven Bell published an article at InsideHigherEd.com titled The Library Website of the Future New to me: a fascinating read over at Boxes & Arrows: An Introduction to User Journeys: “Creating a user journey places a strong emphasis on personas and also merges the creation of scenarios and user flows. However, unlike user flows, hierarchies, [...]
Library Usability Links: 2/5/09
05-Feb-09Lots of links on Pattern Libraries
Library Usability Links: 1/29/09
29-Jan-09Here is one blog’s take on the top 10 eye tracking blogs. Print Create talks about a few usability design myths Stupendous Amazing Library discusses the user tracking tool Userfly Tutorialism has a video froom Google on enhancing user accessibility with AxsJAX Interesting article on Open Source Text Analytics Software Very interesting conversation on pattern [...]
Library Usability Links 1/16/09
17-Jan-09Smashing Magazine has a comprehensive article on Mobile Web Design with discussion, pointers, and screen shots of good design. This chart on screen sizes caught my eye: Jared Spool has an interesting case study on a usability project that discovered the existence of a $300 million button. Here’s another mouse tracker, which makes use of [...]