Category: Design
Horizontal Attention Leans Left – Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
Left half of pages are more viewed than the right half.
Honest Interfaces – 52 Weeks of UX
A design must be honest.
The Opposite of Fitts’ Law – Coding Horror
Put stuff nearby for ease of your users, but never let them easily and accidentally hit things that hurt themselves.
Make Less More – 52 Weeks of UX
What if companies built a better product instead of new features.
Scrolling and Attention – Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
Jakob Nielsen on the page fold.
Well-Placed Pixels
Design porn, ’nuff said.
“HTML5” versus Flash: Animation Benchmarking – The Man in Blue
Flash is still and probably for a fair amount of time the winner at browser animations.
Four Ways to Mix Fonts – Ask H&FJ
An awesome resource for the print designers out there or the web designer willing to use custom fonts.
Accent Folding for Auto-Complete – A List Apart
Accent Folding takes an application to a new level of internationalization.
iPhone Apps Need Low Starting Hurdles – Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
iPhone applications must have an incredibly low level of hassle to be used.