Afshan Kirmani explains some fundamental principles that can help us design effective online forms.
Continue readingGetting a Form’s Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications
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Category: Interactivity
Applying Turing’s Ideas to Search
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Alan Turing’s ideas about artificial intelligence have not panned out exactly as he expected back in the 1950s. These ideas, however, can be used in interface design. John Ferrara shows us how they apply to designing search.
Continue readingCalling in the Big Guns
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In his new book, Luke Wroblewski lays out strategies and best practices for getting users past
your web forms and onto more important interactions. Will Evans tells us why reading this book
might help diffuse some of the opinionated discussion about form design decisions.
On A Scale of 1 to 5
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Rating and reputation systems
can reduce uncertainty decisions during online transactions. Alex Kirtland and Aaron Schiff give us solid practical advice on how to design them successfully.
Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes
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Alexa Andrzejewski shares her quick yet powerful way for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive prototypes using Flash. Only fairly basic ActionScript knowledge required.
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