Tag Archives: web design

Fido.ca’s usability sin

There are few things that universally qualify as web design FAILs. The esteemed Jakob Nielsen has a list of Top-10 Web Design Mistakes from 1999 which, in web years, is a long time. Long enough that you think people would have learned.
Arguably, most of the ten mistakes he lists are not so hard and dry. [...]

Web design for different monitors

Having been a Mac user for slightly more than a year, and working on several different monitors with quite different specs has opened my eyes to the absolute necessity to test your design on a variety of monitors before rolling it out (leaving aside the challenges posed by designing for mobile web devices).
I’ve lost track [...]

Leveraging the shape of information

Came across a good presentation from 2004 by Victor Lombardi, called Incorporating Navigation Research into Design Method (PDF) that discusses (among other things) the “native shape” of information, and how to leverage it in design.
Three images, drawn from research by Elaine Toms (citation in PDF above, all images taken from PDF above) comparing the “recognizability” [...]

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

A List Apart, the online “magazine for people who make websites,” has announced another round of surveying for its “survey for people who make websites.” Last year, almost 33,000 people took the survey.