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Why Headlines Attract More User Attention Than Images
When websites show content, they’ll usually use a headline and image. Headline and image quality is important in getting the user’s attention. However, the headline will always get the most attention...
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9 Rules to Make Your Icons Clear and Intuitive
Have you ever looked at an icon and struggled to figure out what it meant? Users do this all the time with icons they’re not familiar with. And there are only a small set of icons that users are...
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Innovative Navigation Techniques to Save You Header Space
The header is an important part of a website. It usually has the logo, navigation, login, sign up and search. Making room for all these elements in your header is no easy task. The last thing you want...
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Are You Meeting the User Experience Hierarchy of Needs?
The hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow describing the stages of growth in humans. But just like in humans, interfaces go through different stages of growth too....
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Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels
By now, most designers should know that top aligned labels allow users to fill out forms faster than left aligned labels. This makes sense when you read and understand why and the research that...
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The User Interface is the Means, Not the Ends
Designers pride themselves on the interfaces they design. It’s natural to think what one is working on is important. But sometimes designers can get so lost in the interface they forget that it’s for...
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How Facebook’s Poor Usability Led to Missed Messages
If you use Facebook, you could be a victim of missed messages. Some of these messages could have little importance, but some could change your life. However, most Facebook users will miss these...
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How to Create a Unique Selling Point for Your Home Page
Your website may get a lot of visitors, but how many of them actually subscribe to what you’re selling? Whether you’re asking them to sign up for a service or buy a product, every home page needs a...
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UX Movement’s Top 10 Most Read Articles of 2011
2011 was an interesting year for UX Movement. There were many articles published. But not all of them got the same amount of publicity. Since the new year is coming, I would like to spotlight the top...
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Why Scrolling is the New Click
Which is better for users, scrolling or clicking? This is the question that designers have to think about when they’re designing page flow.
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Faceted Overload: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation
The benefit of using a faceted sidebar navigation on your website is that you aren’t vertically constrained by space. You can list as many links in the sidebar as you need. However, this known benefit...
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Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touch Target Sizes
In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on...
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Form Label Proximity: Right Align Labels to Fields
Label alignment on forms is a serious issue. How you place labels next to fields can affect how users fill out your form. There are three ways you can align labels to fields. You can put them inside,...
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Arrow and Ellipsis Affordances on Buttons and Menus
There’s more to menus and buttons than just labels. Before users click a button or menu option, they’ll usually read the label first. But labels alone don’t always give users a clear picture of what...
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How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users
In today’s age of instant gratification, making users wait too long for your application to load is a user experience issue. If users get the feeling that your application loads too slow, they’ll grow...
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Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here”
Have you ever wanted your users to click your links, but didn’t know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem they’re tempted to use the words click here on their links.
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The Dominant Colors of Common Website Qualities
Choosing colors for your website is no easy task. With so many colors and color combinations to choose from, where does a designer begin? The color of your site is important because it influences how...
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Dominant Colors of Different Website Qualities
Choosing colors for your website is no easy task. With so many colors and color combinations to choose from, where does a designer begin? The color of your site is important because it influences how...
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Service Design: The Overlooked Part of User Experience
Walking through IKEA over the weekend with two young children was a healthy reminder of what contributes to an ideal customer experience: innovative product design and thoughtful service design.
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8 Best Resources for Interface Icons
Nothing can make a text link more clear and elegant than placing a relevant icon next to it. Icons serve multiple purposes on a user interface.
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