What Every Home Page Needs for User Engagement
After weeks of hard work, you've finally finished your website. Now you're ready to drive users to it to and convert them into sign ups or sales.
The $12 Million Optional Form Field
Expedia learned a valuable lesson about optional form fields. And it only took them $12 million to do it. However, you can learn it right here for free. The lesson is twofold.
Applying the Golden Ratio to Layouts and Rectangles
1.618 is a number all serious designers should know. It's known as the golden ratio found throughout nature, art and architecture. Seashells, the Mona Lisa and the Parthenon all show the golden ratio.
7 Design Strategies for a Successful Pricing Table
One of the most important pages for a web app business is the pricing plan page. If users can't see the value they'll get by signing up, they won't even think about giving you their money.
How Color Saturation Affects User Efficiency
Have you ever passed on a product because you didn’t like its color? Color affects the way we feel about websites, but it can also affect the way we use them.
Sliding Stepper: An End to the Painful Clicking
Steppers are a user interface control that offer users a way to increase and decrease values. They can type the value they want in the text box, or they can click the up and down buttons.
Killing the Cancel Button on Forms for Good
The Cancel button belongs in many places, but a form is not one of them. Their presence on forms isn’t as common as before because designers are starting to realize how useless and confusing they are.
Why You Should Add Hover Effects to Your Checkboxes
Checkboxes and radio buttons often get ignored by designers because they're not used often on forms. They may look small, but they can pack a strong punch when it comes to form questions.
Where to Align Form Buttons on Different Layouts
Have you ever wondered where to place your buttons at the end of your form? How you design your button is one thing, but where you place it can also affect form submissions.
How Larger Text Leading Leads to Easier Reading
When designers talk about leading, they're not talking about mechanical pencils. They're referring to the spacing between lines of text measured from baseline to baseline.
What the Rule of Thirds Can Do for Product Images
If your website sells products, it's important that your product images appeal to users. Beauty of an image doesn't just come from typography and color.
Top Navigation vs Left Navigation: Which Works Better?
Which is better for users, a top or left navigation? Web designers have debated this issue for a long time. Many have drawn their own conclusions, but others have mixed feelings.
Why It’s Important to Annotate Your Wireframes
Have you ever delivered your wireframes to a client only to have them tell you everything they disliked? This happens when clients judge your design before they understand it.
Why You Should Stop Using the Go Button for Search
Many websites offer users a search bar to make it easy for to find content without browsing. This saves users time and effort. But it doesn't do that when the search bar uses the ‘Go’ button for search.
8 Best User Interface Guidelines for Desktop and Mobile Apps
Have you ever wondered how much detail goes into designing a desktop or mobile interface? These user interface guidelines will give you insight into how the top tech companies design.