Jacob Nielsen just proclaimed the lightbox the “interaction design technique of the year“: In UI terms, a lightbox draws the user’s attention to a dialog box, error message, or other design element in the middle of the screen by dimming the rest of the screen.…
Jacob Nielsen writes in his latest column that eBay’s recent earnings increased because of better usability. eBay reported record profits for Q1. This despite the fact that the number of auction LISTINGS only increased by 2%. However, merchandise SOLD increased by 14%. In presenting the…
In the past week I’ve come across two useful reviews of best practices for designing web forms. The first is from LukeW’s Functioning Form–he writes about the pros and cons of different label placement options (top-aligned, right-aligned, left-aligned). He’s posted about the topic in detail…
The Daily Domainer reports on an interesting phenomenon–it seems that Internet users are using search engines to go to websites, rather than the browser’s address bar. It’s faster to type “yahoo” into the Google search bar and click the first result link, than to type…
Snap.com offers a free tool that creates thumbnail previews of links on your site. The user hovers over a link and a small preview of the site appears (with a small link to snap.com, of course). I love that it’s free and very easy to…
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