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How to Create a Unique Selling Point for Your Home Page

December 26, 2011
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Your website may get a lot of visitors, but how many of them buy what you're selling? Whether you're asking them to sign up for a service or buy a product, you need a unique selling point to succeed.

Wireframes

Final Designs Are Always the Simplest and Most Practical

December 20, 2011
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A pattern I have noticed on every project I've worked on is that the final design that clients choose is always the simplest and most practical one.

Navigation

How Facebook’s Poor Usability Led to Missed Messages

December 12, 2011
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If you use Facebook, you could be a victim of missed messages. Some of these messages could have little importance, but some could change your life.

Thinking

The User Interface Is the Means, Not the Ends

December 8, 2011
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Designers pride themselves on the interfaces they design. But sometimes designers can get so lost in the interface they forget that it's for the user, not them.

Forms

Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels

November 30, 2011
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By now, most designers should know that top aligned labels allow users to fill out forms faster than left aligned labels. This makes sense when you understand the research.

Thinking

Are You Meeting the User Experience Hierarchy of Needs?

November 29, 2011
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The hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow describing the stages of human growth. But just like in humans, user interfaces go through stages of growth too.

Thinking

Starting up a Company with Steve Jobs

November 21, 2011
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Many say that Steve Jobs was the best CEO ever. One would have a hard time arguing that he wasn’t after seeing what he did to start NeXT in the mid 1980s.

Navigation

Innovative Navigation Techniques to Save You Header Space

November 10, 2011
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The header is an important part of a website. It usually has the logo, navigation, login, sign up and search. Making room for all these elements in your header is no easy task.

Buttons

9 Guidelines for Clear and Intuitive Icons

October 31, 2011
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Have you ever struggled to figure out what an icon meant? Users do this all the time with icons they're not familiar with. That's why it's important to make your icons clear and intuitive.

Content

Why Users Read Headlines Before Viewing Images

October 26, 2011
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Are your images distracting users from reading your headlines? Eyetracking research done on news sites found that most view headlines before images.

Navigation

How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing

October 24, 2011
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Where on a website does one start when they're looking for content that interests them? They could use the pagination and start from page one, but that could take up a lot of time.

Wireframes

Why More and More Designers Are Switching to Fireworks

October 21, 2011
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Have you ever wondered which tool, Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks, is better suited for web and application design? There are many designers who use Fireworks.

Thinking

Why Calculators Need a Better User Interface

October 13, 2011
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Many people start using calculators at a young age, and more so when they get older. They use it to do math at school, and they’ll eventually use it to manage their finances.

Navigation

Why Users Click Content Links More Than Menus

September 29, 2011
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Before you spend hours debating with your colleagues and clients on how your navigation menu should look, there's something you should know.