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Avi Itzkovitch - Designing For Device Orientation: From Portrait To Landscape

The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the device, i.e. when switching between portrait and landscape modes. This capab

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , Web Design

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Andrew Maier - The Path To Advertising Nirvana

With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications have enough on their plates withou

Advertising , ux , Usability

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Lyndon Cerejo - Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 1: Getting Customers To Your Products

Amazon turned sweet sixteen this year, and, by extension, so did online shopping as we know it. As online shopping has grown over the past 16 years, so have user needs and expectations related to th

seo , ux , Search , Usability , Psychology

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Eduard Kuric - Five-Second Testing: Taking A Closer Look At First Impressions (Case Study)

In today’s world of shortening attention spans and omnipresent hustle, wasting even a second could mean losing the chance to earn more time from a person you want to impress. If your interests lie i

User Research , testing , Usability , Case Studies

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Ben MacGowan - Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

It has become a recent trend for charities to look at their online identities and branding; spending money on creating user experiences which suit their user base, and over time getting people invol

ux , Usability , Kids

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Vitaly Friedman - Usability Pitfalls of Disabled Buttons, and How To Avoid Them

Imagine a world in which every button is disabled by default. Usually it’s grey, subtle and slightly out of focus, often with poor contrast and a subdued text label that’s a bit difficult to deciphe

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , Web Design

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Paul Boag - Stop Wasting Users’ Time

Our users are precious about their time and we must stop wasting it. On each project ask two questions: “Am I saving myself time at the expense of the user?” and “How can I save the user time here?”

ux , User Interaction , Usability

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Vitaly Friedman - Designing A Perfect Language Selector UX

Imagine that you’ve just arrived in Tokyo. Full of impatience and excitement, you are just about to hit the road, yet there it comes: an urgent warning from your mobile provider, nudging you to top

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Usability

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Joshua Gross - How Usability Testing Drastically Improved My Client’s App

Most designers spend too much time with their designs to be objective about them. The best thing any designer can do is to collect feedback from real users. Testing uncovers pain points and flaws in

Interaction Design , Responsive Design , Clients , ux , Interfaces , Usability

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Joe Leech - Free Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This

UX Design , Tools , Freebies , Usability

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Becky White - Designing For Kids Is Not Child’s Play

Chances are you’ve seen it: a child glued to a tablet or smartphone, swiping fearlessly with small, sticky fingers. From airports and restaurants, to homes and even schools, mobile devices are a ubi

User Research , Usability , Kids , Design

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Andy Carter - Testing Credit-Card Numbers In E-Commerce Checkouts (Cheat Sheet)

As a developer, I work a lot with e-commerce websites and, as a result, with a lot of payment gateways. I’m fortunate that I get to work on many different projects for different clients, each with i

ux , Usability , E-Commerce

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Dmitry Fadeyev - Authentic Design

The recently popularized flat interface style is not merely a trend. It is the manifestation of a desire for greater authenticity in design, a desire to curb visual excess and eliminate the fake and

Graphic Design , ux , Content , Usability , Web Design , Design

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Kate Kalcevich - Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users

I often hear that native mobile app accessibility is more challenging than web accessibility. Teams don’t know where to start, where to find guidance on mobile accessibility, or how to prevent mobil

Accessibility , Usability , Design

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Amit Daliot - Functional Animation In UX Design

A good UX designer can easily explain the logic behind each decision in a design concept. This includes the information architecture, the content hierarchy, the flow and the assumptions made. Soone

animation , ux , Usability

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Ben Gremillion - 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 functional

ux , testing , Usability

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Drew Thomas - The Current State Of Authentication: We Have A Password Problem

We have a lot of passwords to remember, and it’s becoming a problem. Authentication is clearly important, but there are many ways to reliably authenticate users – not just passwords. Passwords are w

Design Patterns , Forms , mobile , ux , Usability , authentication

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Christian Holst - Form-Field Validation: The Errors-Only Approach

Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field failed to validate. I cl

Interaction Design , Forms , ux , Usability

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Anthony T - Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here”

Have you ever wanted your users to click a link but didn’t know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem, they’re tempted to use the words “Click here” on their links. Befo

seo , ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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Lauren Plews - Improving User Experience With Real-Time Features

Only a few years ago words like WebSockets, low latency and real-time functionality were at the forefront of bleeding-edge development. Fast-forward a couple of years and this technology has become

ux , User Interaction , Usability

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Dmitry Fadeyev - 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find u

Interaction Design , Techniques , ux , Interfaces , Usability , Web Design , ui

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Petter Silfver - The Elements Of Navigation + 6 Design Guidelines

When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s

Interaction Design , Navigation , ux , Usability , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design

Web design has significantly improved over the last years. It’s more user-friendly and more appealing today — and there is a good reason behind it: over the years we’ve found out that design with fo

Principles , ux , Usability

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Tommy Walker - What Leap Motion And Google Glass Mean For Future User Experience

Editor's note: Please note that this article explores an entirely hypothetical scenario, and these are opinions, some of which you may not agree with. However, the opinions are based on current t

Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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