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This came to my attention via my friend and colleague Sean Christmann ( @seanalltogether ) from EffectiveUI , who writes: The next time you're building software and think to yourself, "Don't worry, users will be able to figure it out," I wan ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - February 12, 2010 - 84 comments - 0 attachments

Website designers face issues of prioritization all the time: which type of site content is most important? What should a site's navigational order be? Wear the black t-shirt today, or save it till Friday? In designing for entertainment companies, t ...

Article - Guild Copeland - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Chances are you've come in contact with a piece of flat-pack furniture from Ikea . You may even have put a shelf or desk together with the help of an allen wrench and a single-sheet instruction manual. Ikea has successfully innovated in pricing, logi ...

Article - Alex Schleifer, Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - January 12, 2010 - 10 comments - 0 attachments

As a user interface designer , one of the most exciting changes I've seen in last few years has been the growth of rich Internet applications . Although I designed many good standard Web applications, interactions and components have long ...

Article - Donna Maurer Spencer - January 05, 2010 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Luke Wroblewski has published yet another interesting article, this time on Microsoft's MIX Online , called Web Forms for People . From the article: Online, Web forms bridge the gap between people, their information, and a Web prod ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 17, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Google Labs has cooked up another interesting tool, called Browser Size . It demonstrates how much—or, sadly, how little—of a website is visible without scrolling. Enter a site URL to see an overlay of what percent of users will be able to see re ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 16, 2009 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

I recently discovered that one of my hometown papers, The New York Post , has an interesting little feature that you'd never notice because they call exactly zero attention to it—you have to stumble across it. Here's how it works: Say you're on a ...

Article - Alex Rainert - December 16, 2009 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

If you're interested in UX for e-commerce applications, or if you're someone who likes to follow Apple 's leading example, make sure to check out Luke Wroblewski 's interesting and extremely thorough analysis of the Apple Store's n ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 16, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

If you didn't already catch it, make sure to check out the article by  Chris Spooner  ( @chrisspooner ) on Line25 : Ten usability crimes you really shouldn't commit To be clear, it's about Web usability crimes. Great t ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 15, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Google announced that they're officially moving into the realm of "URL shortening services," but not for the public. Their fancy new short URL,  Goo.gl will be available—at least for the time being—only through their products, like the Googl ...

Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - December 16, 2009 - 6 comments - 0 attachments