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23 December 2010 ·
Feature-creep or featuritis is a tendency to constantly add features which inevitably leads to complex products that are confusing and hard to use. Features are important - they present a picture of software capabilities and value. However, there is something more important which is usually left out - people.
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25 August 2010 ·
Many web designers lack empathy, an essential characteristic needed for good design. Seems as if they are focused on beauty and satisfying clients' needs - where the client is often mistakenly considered to be an actual user. A premise for good design is becoming an advocate for the users.
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21 July 2010 ·
We all know how important form validation is. Users must provide required information, users must provide information in specific format, user must... Right. But imagine the scenario in which user saves a form even if validation fails. That is, when inappropriate formats are provided or required fields are left blank. Sounds ridiculous?
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17 June 2010 ·
Seems as if modal overlays are quite popular on the Web lately. They became a common way to show forms, feedback and other content. But despite the fact that overlays are popular and easy to implement they should be used carefully.
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02 June 2010 ·
I was in the middle of writing a long text in one online web application (made in Silverlight) when my browser crashed. I lost the most of what I wrote just because the Silverlight application didn't have one simple function - autosave.
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10 May 2010 ·
As I mentioned before, forgiveness is very important principle in UI design. But error prevention is even more important - whenever possible try to prevent an error instead of recovering from it. Preventing an error to happen is known as Poka-Yoke principle.
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04 April 2010 ·
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26 February 2010 ·
Many agree that tables are a phenomenon in user interface design: they are very important parts of user interfaces but often overlooked. Here are some of the patterns that can help in creating less evil tables.
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20 December 2009 ·
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17 November 2009 ·
There are approaches you can use to allow users to recover from errors, or even better to prevent errors. One such approach is called forgiveness. Let's explain it in more detail and see some inspiring examples.
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01 November 2009 ·
The usage of Ajax in web applications and web sites is rapidly increasing. If not handled properly Ajax functionalities can break users' expectations and conventions.
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19 October 2009 ·
I believe it's general knowledge that nobody likes filling in web forms. Here, I'd like to present a concept which is very interesting to me - adaptive web forms.
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07 September 2009 ·
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