As there haven't been any posts in the usability category of youmoz since March, I thought I write a short usability entry. You SEOs out there certainly know how a link should look like for search engines. But do you also know how they should look like for real people, I mean the ones visiting your page and spending money on your products?1. Links onlineLinks ...
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This short post looks at a Jakob Nielsen alertbox column entitled, How Little Do Users Read? Why a short post? Well, it would appear that we don't read long posts, so why bother? Nielsen examines a study from the ...
Howdy Mozzers! We've recently rolled out a new version of the Events Calendar. In this version we focused primarily on reworking both back end & front end usability issues in an attempt to get more people to use the calendar. Aside from reworking the "Add a new event" form, we've added support for something called ...
For SEM Tuesday I'm cheating a little and talking about forms and usability; however, if you have a sign up form or some sort of registration on your landing pages, this is sound advice that ties in well. In an attempt to be hardcore in 2008, I decided, at Christine's insistence, to sign up for the New Balance Half I...
Last Thursday, Bryan Eisenberg, one of the smartest people in the world of conversions & analytics, wrote a post called - The Web's Old Wives Tale: People Don't Read Online. An excerpt: Web developers like to say it. Designers love to...
Via UXMatters, apparently, this is the best way to structure a form for usability: It includes: NOT using "bolded" labels Using labels on top o...