Usability Vs. Aesthetics: The Right Mix

Website usability is as important as its aesthetics. These two concepts should complement each other, but sometimes web designers just focus on the looks and the appeal of the website without considering its usability. By Desizn Tech

Beyond Usability: Mapping Emotion to Experience

 

As an evangelist for ‘design ethnography’, Kelly Goto is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. By Dconstruct

10 Excellent Usability Tips For Web Designers

If you want your website to be successful with huge traffic the only ingredient you need to inculcate is the usability. The usability helps your users getting what they are looking for. By Web Designish

Usability Design for Online Web Forms

Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. By WDL

The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. By Smashing Magazine

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. By Smashing UX Design

Improving the Usability of Web Content (Elsewhere on the Web)

 Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability). Jacob Gube

Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

This article discusses five important usability tips that your site can’t live without. By Brujo Owoh

10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies

 

This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements. By Cameron Chapman

Usability Testing Tips and Tools (Elsewhere on the Web)

Testing usability is an art and a science. There are many times when usability testers rely on qualitative measurements, intuition, opinions and feedback from users and experience. However, there are also factors you can test quantitatively to ensure that a site is usable. By Jacob Gube

Improving Usability with Fitts’ Law

Back in 1954, psychologist Paul Fitts published an article the detailed his theory on human mechanics as it pertained to aimed movement. It was Fitts’ observation that the action of pointing to or tapping an target object could be measured and predicted mathematically. By Jason Gross

The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website

Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn’t matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can’t quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere. By Spyrestudios

10 Essential Web Application Usability Guidelines

Users should be able to simply, quickly, and intuitively use any web app, like with any tool in life, be it a car, phone, or anything else. By Speckyboy

Showcase Of Beautiful But Unusable Websites

“Form follows function” is a widely accepted — albeit controversial — principle that most designers in a variety of disciplines have adopted since its inception at the turn of the 20th century. On the web, we commonly refer to function as usability which is the ease of use and navigation of a website in order to achieve user’s goals. By Daniel Eckler and Glenn Manucdoc

Test Usability By Embracing Other Viewpoints

As Web technology improves, users expect Web-based widgets to be useful, content to be relevant and interfaces to be snappy. They want to feel confident navigating a website and using its functionality. They crave being able to get things done with little friction and on demand. And demand they do. By Ben Gremillion

Improve Site Usability by Studying Museums

Using a website should be easy. It should be intuitive. We should know what button or link to click to get to where we need to be. By Alexander Dawson

10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies

This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements. By Cameron Chapman

Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design

We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user experience and usability of our jQuery events? By Ben MacGowan

Navflow

Navflow is a usability test for designers that helps analyse how people navigate around your applications and websites.

How to Win Friends and Influence People Remotely

Tools to enable simple online collaboration of design and distribution of usability testing. By Patrick Stapleton