Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form offers some thoughts on formatting tables that are easy for the eye to scan. In a November 2005 article for UX Matters (“So the Necessary May Speak”) he redesigned a table and made it more user-friendly by doing two things:…
It’s an ideavirus of epic proportions — lately all I read about in the webdev news is Web 2.0. What it is, what it isn’t, how tired people are of it, whether there’s still money to be made doing it. Web 2.0 loosely defined is…
I use Wikipedia almost daily, but today this dialog box struck a nerve: Search? Go? What’s the difference? Why would they make such a simple task so confusing, especially on a site that is otherwise very user-friendly? Curiosity about such things being part of my…
Don Norman is sick of hearing people talk about how Google is so simple. The truth about Google’s so-called “simplicity” is that “anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing”. But behind the search page, it’s not so simple after…
plentyoffish.com and the role of anti-marketing design Robert Scoble’s microsoft blog offers an interesting theory about simple (or ugly) design — that an un-designed site is somehow more appealing and makes more money. Sites like MySpace, Google, CraigsList are notoriously simple in design and also…
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