Usability
Anything that isn't usable is pretty useless, so avoid creating websites without considering usability.
International RSI Awareness Day 2007
In honour of the RSI Awareness Day, here is a nice tip for reducing the risk of getting wrist, arm, and neck pain from using a mouse.
Microsoft makes accessible and standards compliant HTML email impossible
Microsoft has decided to make the jobs of many Web professionals a lot harder by using Word instead of IE to render HTML in Outlook 2007.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Book review)
Alan Cooper describes how lack of interaction design makes software and high-tech products hard to use.
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited
Screenshots from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems showing the effects of CSS applied to form controls.
Six things that suck about the Web in 2006
A rant about some of the trends that I find really annoying about the Web in 2006.
Click here and other meaningless link phrases
Many sites use link phrases that are anonymous and meaningless. Help improve the Web by making yourself and your clients think before you link.
Resolution vs. browser size vs. fixed or adaptive width
If you want to make your design look its best at a certain width, optimise it for that width. But there is little reason to constrain the site to that width.
Guidelines for Swedish public sector websites updated
A new version of the Vägledningen 24-timmarswebben (Swedish Guidelines for public sector websites) has been published, and I had the honour of being invited to write parts of it.
Let your users scroll
Designers that create fixed size layouts seem afraid to let the page scroll. Afraid to let the Web be the Web and behave like the Web.
Prioritizing Web Usability (Book review)
Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger revisit usability guidelines from the 1990s and reapply them to the Web of today.
Selecting country names in forms
Using select boxes for hundreds of options is not very user friendly, but is there a better way of presenting long lists of options?
Light text on dark background vs. readability
The recent design trend of light text on dark backgrounds is reducing the readability and usability of many sites for certain people.
Indicating language choice on the Web
A rewrite of my article on the methods you can use to make users aware that a website contains information in more than one language.
Don’t customise the look and feel of form fields
Don’t fight browsers by overusing CSS hacks and changing the appearance and behaviour of form controls.
Ten deadly sins of web design
A list of ten huge mistakes no web designer or developer should be caught making.
Indicating language choice: flags, text, both, neither?
Do not use flag icons to indicate language choice. Instead use the name of the language as text in the language itself.
Styling text fields in Safari
In the latest builds of WebKit, single line text inputs can be heavily styled with CSS. Use with care.
The target attribute and opening new windows
How bad is it really to use an invalid target attribute to make a link open in a new window?
Let’s skip Web 2.0 and go straight to Web 3.0
Don’t let yourself be blinded by the buzzwords and hype that the so-called Web 2.0 consists of. Create usable websites instead.
Five ways of improving your website
Five actions you can take to improve areas where the quality of many websites deteriorates over time.
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