Friday, September 25, 2009

Webamability

Interesting usability article(s):
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-guidelines/

Synopsis:
1. Put labels over text boxes. Not to the left.
2. Having a picture of someone looking at your text gets it read more.
3. Quality=credibility (This is pretty obvious)
4. Users scroll more than they used to but only if given a reason.
5. Links should be blue. Google has blue links...
6. Search boxes should be 27 chars wide.
7. White space between paragraphs helps comprehension.
8. 3 users will find 75% of the problems, 6 users will find 90%.
9. Product pages are good. (Well, duh...)
10. Users ignore advertising...and also stuff that just looks like advertising. Be careful...

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