Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Guidelines to Improve Usability

Guidlines for improving link usability ...

"How you write and design your links is crucial to your visitors clicking them or not. Write them badly and they leave, write them well and they stay.

Who knows, they might even do exactly what you created your site for. Following are 7 guidelines how links should be written to improve the usability of your site.

Do it consistently
Don't mislead the visitor
Show used links
Match the destination with the link
Embedded links used to their full advantage
How to link to files
Mark the external links"   continued ...   (Via WebProNews)

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