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 install, but for my purposes there are a few drawbacks:
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Read moreHere’s an easy bit of javascript that helped me solve a big usability problem.
The issue: we designed an application that requires users to fill out a form, then displays their errors in a popup window. It’s a lengthy form that can present many errors, so showing the errors on the form itself wasn’t a good [...]
Recently I had the task of designing an online data collection form that included a “top three” question. This question requires the user to choose three favorites, ranked in order of preference, from a long list of options. The user can only choose one item for each ranking (i.e. there can’t be two items ranked [...]
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