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08 Dec 09

Revealing Design Treasures From The Amazon

This was an awesome talk at An Event Apart San Francisco, 2009 - now it's an audio slideshow!

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01 Dec 09

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

This is a nice summary of some usability faux pas (faux pases? faux pi? faux pox?) that are easily remedied.

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08 Oct 09

The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners

"As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want.

In this article we’re going to break down the page fold myth and give some tips to ensure content below the fold gets seen."

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21 Jun 09

The nine tribes of the internet

Useful demographic info from Pew for understanding potential audience of your website

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09 Jun 09

5 Sickening Habits of Mainstream Websites

Oh man I TOTALLY agree with #1 - I hate being forced to click for multiple page articles like that - what a waste of my time. I live in a rural area and don't have the fastest internet - waiting for each new page to load makes me more and more frustrated and less and less likely to finish the article. At the very least, offer a "view on one page" option like some sites do. On some sites, I've used the print version to view articles on one page and not interrupt my reading, but not all sites work that way, either. Please - just stop with the gratuitous multiple pages people!

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05 Feb 09

How-To Minimize Load Time for Fast User Experiences | UX Booth

For the most part, we never notice the “visual weight” of a site. That’s a good thing. Experienced front-end developers optimize their site to load quickly and display accurately across all modern browsers. In this post, I will detail how to analyze the bottlenecks preventing websites and blogs from loading quickly and how to resolve them.

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22 Dec 08

Jeffrey Zeldman: Presentations from Gain 2008: Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference 2008: Events: AIGA

“good web design is invisible—it feels simple and authentic because it’s about the character of the content, not the character of the designer." I think I have this talk bookmarked from another venue where it was more complete, but it's always good to hear again.

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16 Dec 08

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs | How-To | Smashing Magazine

Good article but I disagree on autofocus on form fields! I HATE that. Sometimes you go to a page just to see what is there, not to fill out a form or do a search, and autofocus breaks my back keystroke. I have to click outside of the form field in order just to back out of the page and that is really annoying! Why does everyone think this is such a usability plus? ugh. (Their javascript example to fix this problem they created doesn't work, either. Sure, it works for delete, but not for the easier keystroke commands I use.) But the rest of the techniques are good.

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13 Dec 08

Helpful Hyperlinks with JavaScript [JavaScript & Ajax Tutorials]

I already do this with the CSS3 attribute selectors, but it seems javascript method is a more cross-browser compatible method (at least for now). Maybe javascript WILL save us all... (I thought I already bookmarked this, though)

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23 Oct 08

Unreadable? / from a working library

Designing for readability, and for reading LONG on the web

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