Posted by Tommy on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Usability, Web Development
Never break the browsers back button. It’s one of Jakob Nielsen’s top design mistakes from 1999 and it still holds true over ten years later.
The back button is the web users fail-safe, it’s something they can draw comfort from when they’re lost in the depths of a website. I’ve observed many a test where users [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 31 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Usability, Web content
We’re considering renting out our home so I have been doing quite a bit of research about what kind of return we could get and what legal hoops we’ll need to jump through etc…
It was during a google search (other search engine are available!) that I landed on the following page on Lovemoney.com: How to [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 20 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Humor, Usability, Web Development
[Rant alert.]
My focus is mostly Intranets, however I sit next to our Web Team so often hear their grumblings of discontent, therefore I fairly confident what I am about to write translate to the world wide web as well.
We rely on subject experts to create and write content, often these subjects experts are policy officials [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 03 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Usability, Web Development
Gerry McGovern in his book ‘Killer web content’ says:
“Here lies a major irony of the age of mass communication: the more communication people are exposed to, the more they are shutting off and depending on their gut instinct.”
Web users are impatient and ignore banner ads and pointless marketing content. It’s one of the reasons [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 05 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Usability
Google wave is going to transform the way we communicate, check out a preview here: wave.google.com
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