Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
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Having the right tools available in any given situation makes all the difference, especially when it comes to correctly and efficiently getting things done. Without the relevant tools, we waste time and are left feeling frustrated, lost, and confused. Just as bad: when there are too many tools around, we waste time looking for the right one or end up satisficing with a suboptimal tool, instead.
The digital space is no different; in any given application, there’s an abundance of tools to use, tasks to complete, menu options to explore, and commands to execute. As such, an important user-interface element that narrows the set of available commands and associates them...
The rationale for this approach is that compelling images have a unique ability to inspire and engage your audience. In his book, Emotional Design, Don Norman described the powerful, visceral responses people can have to visual appearance. Websites can elicit positive visceral responses from people
The colors and fonts used in the intranet’s visual design often closely match those used on the organization’s public-facing website, since intranets usually adhere to corporate branding guidelines. In theory, it’s a good idea to for the intranet to support the organization’s sanctioned
Why is it important to understand the components of brand, and to differentiate brand from its common misinterpretation as simply a logo, a figurehead, or a website, among other things? Only when all three brand components — visuals, tone, and behaviors — are present and true to the core brand
Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.
People remembered the big bitcoin crash early in 2018, and they’re now wary of thinly veiled cash grabs hidden behind initial coin offerings (ICOs). Businesses seem to have followed suit. With last year’s market collapse, large companies that previously dipped their toes into the
Why Small Businesses Need to Be Vigilant About IoT Security Too
Many devices come out of the box with easy-to-access administrator credentials. For example, they often have username and password combinations like “admin/1234.” Even popular network devices like routers are wont to have such default settings. This is among the most common ways attackers and
IoT solution to supply chain management
How likely would Amazon still be in business if their SCM were poor? Given the financial and technical resources the large companies possess, they employ a complex set of SCM solutions however they are still affected and fall short of being efficient when it comes to dealing with certain factors
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Swipe gestures are not deployed consistently in all lists, so people don’t always think to use them and as a result, the gestures become less discoverable. Swipe actions are accelerators intended to speed up interactions for power users, but the actions available through the gesture should also
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Tabs, Used Right
If you follow the design guidelines in this article, users will know how to use your tabs without further exploration or error-prone guessing. This again means that they can devote all their time and brainpower to understanding the content and features that you’re making available under these
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
When you need to draw extra attention to a potential error, you can use a modal or confirmation dialog to explain details and help the user fix the issue. However, use such dialogs sparingly as they have two big disadvantages: (1) they are disruptive; (2) the error message is presented in a window
How Community Can Drive Commerce: A Lesson from China’s Little Redbook
Participation is key to the social element of a business platform. Providing incentives for posting content or gamifying the experience can motivate users and ultimately lead to a strong, active community. For example, the clothing- and accessory-resale app, Poshmark, allows members to earn Posh
In-Store & Online: Designing For the Changing Behaviors of Today’s Shoppers
People don’t distinguish between online shopping and in-store shopping. To them, it’s all shopping. Their shopping experiences might be fully online, fully in-store, or a mix of the two. Customers may start shopping in a store, but make a final purchase from the same store’s ecommerce
Users' Pagination Preferences and "View All"
Pagination is a necessary evil when you have too many items to easily show them all on one screen. Linear content flows — such as articles like this — should almost never be broken up into multiple screens. It’s better to show the full article on one long screen than to inflict the pain of
Google kündigt neuen SEO-Podcast „Search Off the Record“ an
Anzeige Google hat einen neuen Podcast angekündigt. „Search Off the Record“ soll Hintergrundinformationen zur Suchmaschinenoptimierung liefern und seine Zuhörer hinter die Kulissen von Google führen. Mit von der Partie sind Johannes Müller, Gary Illyes und Martin Splitt, die bereits aus den
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
The OECD project looked at a broad range of job-related skills, but of most interest to us is the test of technology skills. For this part of the study, participants were asked to perform 14 computer-based tasks. Instead of using live websites, the participants attempted the tasks on simulated
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
Teens are becoming more successful at navigating websites and finding what they need. At the time of the third study, the oldest participant was born in 2001 and the youngest was born in 2005; therefore, all participants in this study grew up with access to computers. Between all three studies
A Look Back at the WP Engine London Summit .
At the end of September, we held our 2018 WP Engine Summit in Austin, Texas. Last week, agencies, brands, and digital innovators from EMEA came together in London for the WP Engine EU Summit. Attendees discussed the future of digital experiences, Gen Z’s perception of the Internet, and the
WP Engine Culture Recognized at Greater Austin Business Awards
The annual Greater Austin Business Awards competition, presented by The Austin Chamber of Commerce, is designed to honor excellence in all aspects of business. In order to promote awareness and perpetuate good practices, the Awards recognize companies and organization in the Austin region for
Introducing Revolution Pro, the First Block-Based Genesis Theme
Atomic Blocks is one of the most popular and most downloaded libraries of beautiful, responsive, and customizable blocks for WordPress 5.0. In addition to giving users the ability to quickly add great-looking elements to their web pages without touching a line of code, Atomic Blocks also offers
Security Teams Need to Be Prepared With an Incident Response Plan
Designing an incident response plan takes time, but it’s far less stressful to plan before an event than during or after one. Some time-strapped businesses might be tempted to download a generic security plan off the internet, but without the time investment on the front end, nobody in the
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by
A Startup Should Take out a Business Loan that Makes Sense
Irrespective of the type of business, you will need specific equipment. It may be IT tools or machinery, but you will need these to make your business operations more accessible and add to efficiency and productivity. Taking out a loan in such situations is a possible decision because the equipment
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Is Artificial Intelligence Still Relevant for Startups?
Hazus, along with Esri and Geospiza, is doing something similar with FEMA data. These organizations are creating AI dashboards using predictive analytics around disaster and emergency response. That team could tell you the best bet when responding to a tornado, hurricane, or earthquake plaguing a
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Morgan Stanley: Fitbit needs better software to survive The firm is in a precarious position, once the dominant player in the wearable market, it has lost significant marketshare to Apple and Xiaomi. Other brands, like Garmin and Samsung, are providing customers with alternatives to the standard
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks | University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
When visitors to your site can’t find what they’re looking for, they quickly grow impatient and look to external sites for help. Teenagers, whose research skills aren’t yet fully developed, are especially quick to turn to an external search to find what they’re looking for. For example
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2002
Web pages that require horizontal scrolling in standard-sized windows, such as 800x600 pixels, are particularly annoying. For some reason, many websites seem to be optimized for 805-pixel-wide browser windows, even though this resolution is pretty rare and the extra five pixels offer little
Video Usability
When thinking about introductions to videos, consider the standard use of video content on your site and the cumulative effect of such introductions. If users typically watch one video per session, a standard introduction doesn’t cause as much harm as if a user typically watches several videos in
