Afshan Kirmani explains some fundamental principles that can help us design effective online forms.
Continue readingCategory: UX Design
What happens in the end-to-end experience? Can the intended audience find what they’re looking for? What is the actual problem being solved? Are you designing the right product for the customer need? Information architecture, accessibility, findability, taxonomy, interaction design, research, usability, case studies, interviews, surveys, and more.
Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right
Audio content is becoming increasingly prevalent. How do you design it effectively? Jens Jacobsen combines information architecture, journalism, usability engineering, and interface design to resolve some of the issues that arise from introducing audio.
Continue readingApplying Turing’s Ideas to Search
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 readingPeople Finder: Searching Without Logic?
In large organizations, finding
people is a very common intranet task. Vivek Deshmukh gives us advice on how to improve people search and really help staff find
one another.
Calling in the Big Guns
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.