Christian Holst
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The consequences of breaking the user’s expectations of how the browser “Back” button should behave can be dire. During our usability tests, it has been the direct cause of abandonment, with users leaving test sites with much swearing and cursing (even from the calmer test users).
Could have been me, I do leave many sites miss-behaving with back buttons on mobile…
let’s make software that respects your attention, does its job well, and lets you get on with your life. That’s what good software used to feel like…
In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam
Treat user effort as a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoff curve of use case complexity to user effort with the same care…
Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative…
Gwendolyn Rak
Tactile Controls: Why Buttons Are Making a Comeback
When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way [with a touchscreen]. It’s hard to generalize and say, buttons are always…
Michael Andrews
Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD
The biggest barrier to the universal adoption of content-presentation separation is poor implementation. Bad tools, weak requirements, and immature…
Mike Swanson
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