Posts Tagged ‘jakob nielsen

Advertise here with BSA Let’s start off with a simple task. Most web users can find the primary navigation on the image below, but take a few moments to see if you can find the secondary navigation. If you had a problem definitively identifying it, you aren’t alone. Even information architecture (IA) experts like Lou [...]

We talked about how to improve your HTML forms performance a couple of days ago. There we covered a pretty controversial topic “Don’t mask your passwords”, discussing how bad masking your passwords could be for usability. At this moment, we basically have two options: mask password field and don’t ask for any feedback, or show [...]

We’re using Basecamp to manage the Treehouse launch. We’re on the Free plan (we only need one project for now) and I noticed something interesting when I logged in this morning. They have a big fat jakob-nielsen-old-school-ugly upgrade message. We’re talking yellow-background-and-blue-links ugly. Even though I think it’s unattractive, I bet this message works well [...]

About a decade ago I lucked into a job as a technology journalist. I had no journalism experience / qualifications, but I could string a sentence together and was madly passionate about ‘the internet’. Still am, for that matter. I had to learn on the job: it was very much a case of in-at-the-deep end. [...]

Homepage Compared to its previous incarnation, the new website has reduced the clutter, and introduced a clear navigational structure. There is enough space between the various areas on the page to make it easy to make sense of all the information presented.  The clearest, and most important element on the page encourages visitors to donate [...]


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