If you haven’t yet read it, this article called The $300 Million Button is well worth your five minutes. It’s by Jared M. Spool and posted on the User Interface Engineering Web site. I don’t want to give away the secret of the article, but it discusses a very common practice on e-commerce sites, and how it tests with end users.
One of the sessions I attended at the 2008 Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco was Creating Attractive, Usable, and Accessible Forms, presented by Rob Huddleston. I went to this session as part of my current drive to improve my user interface (UI) and Web accessibility skills. In this post I’ve collected a few do’s and dont’s that I jotted down during Huddleston’s presentation. As was the case for me, you’ll likely already know some of these, some might serve as reminders of something you already knew, and hopefully a couple will make you think about rewriting some of your HTML forms today. (continue reading…)
One of the sessions I attended at the 2008 Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco was Web Application Development: The Error of Our Ways, presented by Robert Hoekman, Jr.. I went to this session in particular as part of my current drive to improve my user interface (UI) and Web accessibility skills. In the session, Hoekman mentioned the concept of poka-yoke, a Japanese term that means fool-proofing or mistake-proofing (see the Wikipedia entry). (continue reading…)
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