Category Archives: Usability
Designing a Better Business Application
DESIGNING FOR VARIOUS STATES When designing a page that draws set of results from collection of data (i.e. database) the screen layout should be designed to serve three core states of the application; Normal, Empty, and Error. Normal State: is when system returns expected results. Normal state can be further broken down into two sub-states: [...]
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Making the language clear
The initial sign in page of YouTube tells me that I can sign in to YouTube using my Google or YouTube account. Clear enough. But you can’t sign in even if you have a valid Google account but not the other. It will ask you if you already have a YouTube account (well, no…, I [...]
Giving users something they can use
Apple is usually sensible especially when it comes to their website design and usability. But I noticed something on Apple’s site that sort of insulted my intelligence. This happened when I was browsing their site for a new Macbook Pro. Once you drill down to the product detail you will see an image of the [...]
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Google home page fade-in
I don’t like it. Apparently, thousands are with me on this. Google, at any given moment runs hundreds of experiments around the world. They say the home page fade-in will be permanent.
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Picasso had it easy
Oh yeah. He just created art as he saw fit. If Picasso thought blue should be the color, blue it was. No one questions why. If he decides a woman’s right eye should be twice as large as her left, that’s okay too. When he thought a nostril of a goat would be a good [...]
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Instructions vs. Usability.