9 Small User Experience Details Most Websites Miss
Designing a pleasant user experience requires attention to detail. But there are so many aspects of design that it’s hard to remember them all.
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Prevent Duplicate Orders with Progress Buttons
Imagine a user placing an order on an e-commerce website. They get to the checkout page and accidentally click the ‘order’ button twice.
A Unified Calendar Widget for Picking Date Ranges
Booking an airline ticket is one of the most common online tasks. Every time users book a flight they have to use the calendar picker to pick a leave and return date.
How Companies Can Prevent User Backlash After a Redesign
When a company wants to improve their user experience they redesign their user interface. But sometimes those good intentions end up backfiring.
How to Use Page Headings to Increase Findability
Have you ever been to a website and couldn’t find what you were looking for? Most websites today overwhelm users with content irrelevant to what they’re looking for.
How to Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring
Filling out forms isn't always an easy task. No matter how simple you make it, users will make mistakes. Do your form error messages give users a feeling of worry or comfort?
The Form and Function of Skeuomorphic Design
Skeuomorphism is a fancy word for a visual design technique. But many designers misuse skeuomorphism when they use it for aesthetics instead of function.
Design Your Tablet Interfaces for Horizontal Swiping
Tablet usage is exploding. One study estimates that "90 million americans will use a tablet device in 2014"[1]. With this statistic, understanding how to design tablet interfaces is more important than ever.
Avoid the Pains of Pagination
Everyone has scrolled to the bottom of a web page before and seen that row of numbers. That row of numbers is a website's pagination.
Stop Misusing Select Menus
There are many controls to choose from when designing a form. Choosing the wrong one can make your form hard for users to fill out. One control that's often misused is the select menu.
Why Password Masking Can Hurt Your Sign Up Form
Masking passwords is a common age-old practice that's found on sign up and login forms. It's used to prevent over-the-shoulder snoopers from catching a glance of the user's password.
How Designers Save Time by Using WordPress Themes
Building a website from scratch is no easy task. You have to sketch, wireframe, design and code the site. A job like this takes more than one person and a lot of time.
How Sans-Serif Typeface Styles Affect Readability
Almost everywhere you look on the web, you'll see sans-serif typefaces. They have long been the standard for on-screen text due to their increased readability on low screen resolutions.
8 Best Resources for User Interface Icons
Placing icons next to your buttons can make your user interface easier to use. Designers often have to look everywhere for icons to use on their user interface.
Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe
Have you ever had an idea for a website or application? It’s easy to come up with the idea, but the hard part is understanding how that idea will take shape in user interface form.