Archives by Category: Usability
Best practices, tips, information, and resources about usability mostly related to websites and online experiences—such as site navigation, fonts and font-sizing, page redirects, friendly URLs and URIs, cross-browser issues and usability, age groups and needs, accessibility, information architecture.
- New Web Accessibility Articles, Accessible Style Switching
12 October, 2006
- Part 2: User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
9 October, 2006
- User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
27 September, 2006
- Usability and Design News: Screen Resolution, Page Layout, Hot Spots
1 August, 2006
- What Exactly is Web 2.0?
7 November, 2005
- Back to the Opening New Windows Issue?
29 August, 2005
- Testing Websites for Accessibility with Lynx
5 October, 2004
- New Web Design Usability Article
30 August, 2004
- CSS, Standards, Semantic Markup, and the Bottom Line: Money
30 July, 2004
- Terrific Accessible, Usable Forms Tutorials
6 July, 2004
- Fantastic Upcoming Web Essentials Workshop
9 May, 2004
- Site Organization Standards?
7 January, 2004
- Friday Feast #63: Information Architecture, Standards, Best Practices
24 October, 2003
- More on Friendly URLs
28 September, 2003
- Organizing Your Website
19 August, 2003
- Friday Feast #55: Friendly, Lasting URLs
8 August, 2003
- Design, SEO, Lots of Food for Thought Today
5 August, 2003
- Friday Feast #54: Design, HTML Editors, MT, Photography, Regex
1 August, 2003
- Friday Feast #53: CSS Tips, Page Redirect Tips
25 July, 2003
- Offline, Redesign
24 July, 2003
- Friday Feast #52: Eye-catching, Practical, Cost-Effective Web Design
18 July, 2003
- WebVisions 2003
17 July, 2003
- Possible Benefits for IE6 Backlash: More Standards Awareness and Use?
30 June, 2003
- It’s All About the User, Including Moms: Lindows and Windows
26 June, 2003
- More on Bookmarklets
8 June, 2003
- Friday Feast #43: Inspiration, CSS, Metadata, Photoshop, Photography
9 May, 2003
- Best of chi-web & sigia-l
6 May, 2003
- Usability News Has News
10 February, 2003
- Friday Feast #35: Semantic Web, Voice Technology, Fonts, Mind Mapping
31 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #33: XHTML 2 Working Draft and Discussions
17 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #29: Voice Recognition Technology, B&R Turns Two, CSS, and Zeitgeist
13 December, 2002
- Usability, Keeping it Simple, and VisiBone’s new JavaScript Products
4 December, 2002
- Friday Feast #26: Digital Photo Storage, Usability, Information Architecture, More MS Security Holes
22 November, 2002
- All About Navigation and the User
19 November, 2002
- Does Website Optimization Still Matter?
14 November, 2002
- Productivity, Time Management, More Money?
11 November, 2002
- Friday Feast #24: CSS, Standards, Flash, Usability, and Googlisms
8 November, 2002
- Usability, Accessibility, and Lawsuits
6 November, 2002
- Friday Feast #22: Practicing What We Preach About Standards, Accessibility, and Starting Backwards
6 September, 2002
- Friday Feast #21: Keeping it Simple
30 August, 2002
- Nielsen’s Latest: Font Sizing Issues
19 August, 2002
- Friday Feast #19: Computer Use, Musicians, and Injuries
16 August, 2002
- Friday Feast #14: CSS, Design, Typography, Unicode, Usability
21 June, 2002
- Upcoming Online Accessibility Class
19 June, 2002
- Using, Synchronizing Multiple Computers
3 June, 2002
- Usability - Email and Subject Lines
30 May, 2002
- CSS and Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Font Sizes: Why I’m Not Using EM Yet
17 May, 2002
- Star Wars, Spider-man, Buying Movie Tickets Online
16 May, 2002
- Homepage Usability, Jakob Nielsen Flavor
13 May, 2002
- User Unfriendly Services at Bank of America
16 April, 2002
- Accessible by Design: New Article at Digital Web
10 April, 2002
- The Art of the ALT Attribute
3 April, 2002
- User-Unfriendly Software
28 March, 2002
- Steve Krug Interview
19 March, 2002
- More: Olympics Site Accessibility Issues
14 February, 2002
- Design: Keeping it Simple (and Why it Matters)
13 February, 2002
- All About Icons and Creating Great Ones
29 January, 2002
- Usable, Accessible Flash
23 January, 2002
- Olympics 2002 Site, Continued
18 January, 2002
- Accessibility Lockout for Olympics 2002 Site—Again?!
16 January, 2002
- Site Maps: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
8 January, 2002
- Web Standards - Why, How
8 January, 2002
- User-Friendly Forms
12 December, 2001
- Peter Morville Defends the Search
7 December, 2001
- Designing for Accessibility Can Help Search Engine Rankings, Too
26 November, 2001
- Flashing For Your Eyes Only
28 September, 2001
- Wilson’s Fonts and Readability Survey
22 August, 2001
- Usable Web Sites
21 August, 2001
- Can People Find You? Maps To Your Location
9 July, 2001
- More K.I.S.S. - This Month’s Digital Web Magazine
21 June, 2001
- Design and Site Growth
6 June, 2001
- Forrester’s Latest: User Experience Matters
3 June, 2001
- Checking Out The Competition (and Usability)
20 May, 2001
- Edward Tufte’s Website
2 May, 2001
- Planning for a Redesign or a New Web Site
25 April, 2001
- Design for ECommerce: Meet Bob the Browser And Friends
29 March, 2001
- Links and Usability: Don’t Make Me Think
25 March, 2001
- 4 Seconds To Grab Visitor’s Attention?
10 March, 2001
- Browser Upgrade Initiative: Rants and Raves Abound
24 February, 2001
- Is Your Website on Target for Your Customers?
10 February, 2001
- Standards: Do We Need A Revolution?
27 January, 2001
- Web Standards Explained
5 January, 2001
- Inspiration: Icons, Their Designers and Web Sites
17 December, 2000
- Can Usability and Design be Friends?
12 December, 2000




