Jakob Nielsen
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Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
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…
Please, please, please… check on the sites you build that using Command #fn1" id="fnref1">[1] + click #fn2" id="fnref2">[2] always opens links in a new tab, even if you used some JavaScript to build a dumb Web link!
I see too many sites where Cmd + click opens the link in the current tab, so when browsing a list of links, if I want to open them in new tabs (for example to compare products), I need to use right click and then select the "open link in a new tab" option, for each link.
Really cumbersome! 😡
Arguments for opening links in a new tab or window
A significant percentage of web professionals believe that opening outbound links in new tabs or windows provides a benefit to site owners. Why? Is…
Psychology of Speed: A Guide to Perceived Performance
When people mention web performance, they usually focus on development-first aspects like JavaScript frameworks and performance metrics. These are…
Jason Grigsby
Karolina Szczur