Dark Patterns: Black Hat, Anti-Usability Design Patterns
Submitted by matt 23 days ago (more from darkpatterns.org)This pattern library is dedicated to Dark Patterns: user interfaces that have been designed to trick users into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise have done. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.
Naview - Create easier navigations through prototyping and testing
Submitted by matt 44 days ago (more from naviewapp.com)A navigation preview tool for rapid information architecture prototyping. It helps information architects design, visualize, test and revise navigational structures quickly and efficiently. Create drop down menus without any coding, interactively review and modify your navigation, import taxonomy easily from spreadsheet or text file
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design
Submitted by matt 112 days ago (more from uxmag.com)A visual designer approaches UX design from one point of view, the interaction designer from another, and the programmer from yet another. It can be helpful to understand and even experience the part that others are experiencing. I take research and knowledge about the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation and extrapolate UX design principles from that.
Web Users Attention Leans Left
Submitted by matt 156 days ago (more from useit.com)Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable. People spent more than twice as much time looking at the left side of the page as they did the right.
Guiding Principles for UX Designers
Submitted by matt 183 days ago (more from uxmag.com)I have collected a set of guiding principles for user experience designers, to encourage behaviors that I believe are necessary to being a successful practitioner, as well as a set of guiding principles for experience design—which I think anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow.
10 unexpected online user behaviours to look out for
Submitted by matt 189 days ago (more from webcredible.co.uk)When designing a website, there are key user behaviours that should be taken into account. But in order to take them into account, it helps to know them. Below are 10 of the more interesting and less well-known user behaviours that regularly occur in user testing.
25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
Submitted by matt 247 days ago (more from smashingmagazine.com)We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events.
24 Usability Testing Tools
Submitted by matt 266 days ago (more from usefulusability.com)From recruiting real users (with tools such as Ethnio) to conducting live one on one remote moderated tests (UserVue) to analyzing results of usability changes using A/B testing (Google Website Optimizer), there is a plethora of useful and usable tools to conduct usability testing.
Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques
Submitted by matt 274 days ago (more from noupe.com)You need to do everything in your power to make sure every website you design or web application you create is as user-friendly as it can be. So how do you do that, exactly? The answer is simple: you test the site for usability. This involves getting actual users to try the site and let you know what isn’t working for them, either through automated means or simply by telling you.
8 Tips for Account Registration
Submitted by matt 275 days ago (more from getelastic.com)A couple years ago I signed up for accounts at 87 of the top online retailer sites. I figured it was high time we revisited this topic, since most ecommerce sites use account registration and every sign up process I’ve seen has at least one area it can improve on.