Design
Usability tip: Left is best?
According to usability.gov website, “Left is Best” for navigation. Then why is the link on the right?
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Why your website does more harm than good
A very useful website brings a lot of good things to the organization or person behind it. A company website can serve as its sales and marketing department that works 24×7. A personal website can showcase a person’s capabilities that could land him a high-paying contract work or job.
Tools already exist to develop websites […]
Don’t forget to help your visitors
All newspapers, magazines, and catalogs work the same way - you start at the front cover and keep turning the pages. That is not the case with websites.
When visitors arrive at a new website, they pause, look around, and figure out how to proceed. There are a lot of question marks in their head and […]
Links here, there, and everywhere
I can’t imagine a website without links. Well, you could actually build webpages with no links to anywhere but that will not be fun to do, will they?
Links are very special part of the web because without links, our webpages will not be connected. It will not look like a web, but more like spaghetti […]
Usability tip: Working with errors
When displaying an error, make it obvious so your visitor could quickly see it. An effective approach is to contrast the color of the text (e.g. red against white) or boxed it with red lines.
Don’t use all caps when displaying error messages because this gives an impression that you’re screaming at your visitors.
Do not rely […]
Usability in a small company
Having as usability lab will definitely help you get some leverage. It is different when you say “according to our tests, 8 of 10 users can’t figure out how to register and I have the recording of their sessions to prove it”, compared to “I think the registration page is confusing.” As far as I […]
Hyperlink history
While Tim Berners-Lee’s work paved the way for the World Wide Web, it was Vannevar Bush who introduced the concept of linking documents into a single trail of information in his essay “As We May Think” published in 1945. Then in 1965, Ted Nelson, coined the term “hyperlink” for his Project Xanadu.
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Registry cleaner for Linux?
While browsing I received this pop-up ad.
I am using Firefox on Linux. Sweet.
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This week at PUG: Register or not?
Dear PUG,
I am creating an e-commerce website and I need to implement a shopping cart. I’ve looked at several e-commerce websites in the Philippines and they require registration before you can use the shopping cart. I am just curious if this is the correct way to design a shopping cart?
Regards,
— Shopping cart creator
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How we really use the Web
Here is a sample chapter on how we use the web from the best web usability book on the planet, Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug. The 3 facts of life according to Steve are:
Fact of life #1: We don’t read pages. We scan them.
Fact of life #2: We don’t make optimal […]
