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How do you get your daily news these days? Well… you may be visiting your favorite sites and blogs, but that’s inefficient since those blogs may not have any updates. Perhaps you subscribe to them using RSS, which delivers all the new articles straight to

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Color is one of the most important parts of your website. However, far too often color enters the equation as an afterthought, or worse, not all all. This isn’t adequate. Color helps define how users perceive information. To add to the complexity of this

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Social networks differ from regular websites in 3 fundamental ways:

1. Activities and content are fully (or at least mostly) driven by the users.
2. Users are expected to do things on the website - interact, post, vote, etc.
3. Users are expecte

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Tumblelog managed by Ivana Jurcic, Web Developer from Belgrade, Serbia.

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Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

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When I started this column, part of my motivation was to write about tools to empower Web designers—techniques they could take away and apply immediately. I’ve written an article on how information architecture can be a natural progression from Web design

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When conducting usability testing, the pressing need to meet technology requirements can mean that insufficient time is given to ensuring that other supporting materials have been prepared.

The result can be a test in which the administrator feels uncomf

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While researching external source material for an upcoming article on one of the Gestalt principles of perception I came across this explanation for one of them: “When confronted with visual information, people will attempt to organize that information in

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Lots of patterns for social interfaces

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When we talk about usability, we generally refer to the user interface (UI) — the layout of buttons, labels, tabs and so on. But there is one other element that should not be ignored as it alone can waste all the hard work you’ve put into crafting a beaut

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One page sites are some of my favourite projects and clients always love them, even though they’re hesitant at first. “Well these other guys said they’d give me up to six pages, so surely you can do better than one?” When you explain the benefits of one g

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When you’re low on the content provided by the client, plus the copywriter narrows it all down to a few sound, but short sentences, the information designer has no option, than to provide the whole content on one page.

On one-pagers, the content elements

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We’ve had an amazing response to our launch. But one question has cropped-up again and again: where does the FoldSpy data come from and how accurate is it? So I think it’s time to explain that a little better...

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