This 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
Tag Archives: Usability
Nielsen All In for Mega Drop-Downs
23-Mar-09Library 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
Usability Over Time
01-Jan-09Found this useful idea by Chris Rusbridge from a year-end review by Jill Hurst-Wahl: It’s not just the language that makes digital preservation unconvincing to the decision maker. Part of the problem is that digital preservation describes a process, and not an outcome. … So I would argue that outcome-related phrases like “long term accessibility” [...]
Library Usability Links 12/20/08
20-Dec-08An article published in Code4Lib Journal called “User-Centered Design and Agile Development: Rebuilding the Swedish National Union Catalog“. “Finally, we would like to conclude that working with user-centred design in combination with iterative development is a better, faster and cheaper way of software development, compared to traditional models. Better – the product being released at [...]
Library Usability Links 12/11/08
12-Dec-08I’m a fan of user personas, but building personas for applications is an interesting idea. SocialStartup.com identifies five fundamental social patterns: Public Timeline Asymetrical Follow News Feed Re-blogging Social Proof Via the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes “A Metadata Manager’s Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries [...]
Library Usability Links 12/3/08
03-Dec-08James Robertson writes about Practical Ways to Assess CMS Usability including the following: 1. Vendor demo 2. Involve end-users 3. End-user training 4. Demo sites 5. Reference sites 6. Proof of concept 7. Usability testing Gizmoto review of Sony’s PRS-700 ebook reader: Unfortunately, the “improvements” have taken away the very essence of the Reader—the easy-on-the-eyes [...]