Tag Archives | usability

Dude, Three Dos for Smooth Site Surfing

By on March 3, 2011

When people surf, they’re on a smooth fun wave, and they like it like that. They like to ride that wave, feel the glide, fly through the wind and see the earth move under their feet. It’s exhilarating!

That’s how people want to surf when they are on your website.

So, don’t scatter your website with coral reefs, riptides, or men in grey suits (sharks)! Instead, make nice smooth fun … read on

 

3 Visual Cues and A Core Concept for Leading Visitors Around Your Site and Onto A-C-T-I-O-N

By on December 21, 2009

Three Visual Cues

1. Buttons – Use buttons on your website to cue people where to go next. Make buttons look like buttons which are usually rounded, beveled (look 3D-ish) and have a drop-shadow.

It’s also good to include text links in addition to these buttons for the visually impaired, low-tech browsers, and search engine spiders.… read on

 

Text Link Usability to Keep People Longer

By on November 9, 2009

Noisy, ugly, confusing pages scare people away. Easy to read and use pages keep people longer.

Ever seen a page with more links than sand in the Sahara? And to make it worse, have you seen such a page with multi-colored super-bright links that make the page look like Lite-Brite?

Unusable and scary!… read on