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Best practices in web and user interface design

Random notes, opinions, advices, and articles. Please comment!

 

08/23

2009

Where do I click? Poor user interface is poor communication

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Have you ever found that sometimes you just don’t know what you can or can’t click on in a website page?

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09/02

2009

Website design presentation—how to decide on the best solution?

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While designing a website, there will come a time when several design solutions will be proposed to you, the client. At that time I always stress that you should look at them as if you were a visitor to the website.

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09/09

2009

Know the site’s content before designing a website!

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I often work in collaboration with graphic designers who will often present a website’s look and feel to their clients without having analyzed what type of content their design is supposed to support. This has always been puzzling to me.

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09/22

2009

A website page should fit my browser

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Before starting the design of a website, one of the first things to evaluate is what computer screen resolution our expected audience will be using when browsing the site. It is typical for first-time website designers to then design a website page to fit these dimensions exactly. This is a mistake.

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10/06

2009

Website banners—don’t make me scroll!

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A common mistake for interface designers is to design website page banners that are too tall. Sure, they’re visually appealing and can have great impact. But they also drastically limit the depth of the content area, which forces the user, page after page, to have to hit the scroll bar. And that, ultimately, may frustrate them.

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