Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Summary: How to define usability? How, when, and where to improve it? Why should you care? Overview defines key usabilty concepts and answers basic questions. This is the article to give to your boss...
View ArticleUI is visible. Type is visible.
In 1955, Beatrice Warde gave a presentation to the Typographer’s Guild in London (now, the International Society of Typographic Design) which later became an essay titled: ‘The Crystal Goblet, or...
View ArticleThe Box Model
The CSS box model describes the rectangular boxes that are generated for elements in the document tree and laid out according to the visual formatting model. 8.1 Box dimensions Each box has a content...
View ArticleComputer Screens Getting Bigger
Summary: Reasonably big monitors have finally become the most common class of desktop computer screen, dethroning the 1024×768 resolution that was long the target for web design. The 1024×768...
View ArticleCSS Specificity: Things You Should Know
Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to...
View ArticleHow to get started in UX Design
We’ve received quite a few emails lately from readers looking to get started in UX Design—many coming from a print background. Here’s one such email, which I’ve published here with permission: I’m a...
View ArticleHow Users Read on the Web
They don’t. People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. In research on how people read websites we found that 79 percent of our...
View ArticleImproving UX Through Front End Performance
Imagine you’re at an intersection waiting for your turn to walk across the street. You push the button to call the walk signal, and you take out your phone. You want to accomplish one thing: maybe...
View ArticleMastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry. Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and...
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