By Sachyn

18 Usability guidelines to help you innovate useful websites – Part 1 of 4 [12 Sept, 2009]

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Usability Principles and Techniques. What It Is? If you did following basic usability principles/guidelines and techniques it would be safe to say you are adapting good practice in managing websites. Usability, as it, in this case, relates to the web, is the measure of the quality of a user’s experience when… >>more>>

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“Damn! Where is it?” – 404 error pages [06, Sept, 2009]

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<Oops! The page does not exist!>. How many times you have faced this error message when you tried to visit a website. Maybe you typed the wrong name, maybe the page has been moved, or maybe the page doesn’t exist anymore. Whatever the reason, you are flashed with the default page, which doesn’t help you… >>more>>

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6 Usability Tools reviewed and do you need them? [30 Aug, 2009]

Loop11

A complex case of usability. I am stranded. I need to know how users are going to react, and whether the product I am designing hits the mark. And then, I have to keep my client’s instructions in check too. A tall task and I go about meticulously planning, one step… >>more>>

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Facebook Lite – A Brief Review [25 Aug, 2009]

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I was surprised to find today that I was chosen as a beta tester for Facebook Lite. This is a very ingenious way to incite users to try Facebook Lite. The first thought that came to my mind was that, “Hey! Am I one of the exclusive ones to have get this invite?” But after a few… >>more>>

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Site Map – Why, How, What? [28 Mar, 2009]

Ah … the door to an entire website – Site Map. Don’t we all want the site map to be part of our website. But what is a site map? What really is site map’s function and use? To understand this we need to look at the reasons why site map is used. Site maps are used to… >>more>>

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What is Interaction Design? [27 Mar, 2009]

The discipline of defining the behavior of products and systems that a user can interact with is called Interaction Design. It centers around complex technology systems that related to software, web applications, mobile devices, electronic devices and other… >>more>>

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Do colons matter in a web form? [26 Mar, 2009]

What is the use of a colon? Since it was initially used to purpose printed text, how has its adaptation to the web served its actual purpose it was meant for. As the Chicago Manual of Style explains in Chapter 6, sub-section 6.5… >>more>>

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