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...
A simplified high-fidelity desktop wireflow for a configurator webapp demonstrates that not all parts of the screen design must be represented in each step. Due to the larger size of desktop screen designs, showing the full page for each step is not necessary if the majority of the information
You might be wondering, "if proximity is such a problem, then why not place the labels inside the text fields?". Don't be tempted. When you place the labels inside the text field as filler text, the label disappears when users input their text and they must remember it as they fill in the field
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
Navigating Big Data’s Fake News Problem
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
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Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
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Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
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UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
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The Anatomy of a List Entry
In our eyetracking research we find that, when users have to select among several options presented on the listing page, they often look from one list entry to another and back again — comparing similar information across different entries. To help this process, the list entries should be
Journey Mapping: 9 Frequently Asked Questions
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
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Parallel Design and Testing by Jakob Nielsen and Jan Maurits Faber
Figure 5 shows the measured usability of the original designs and their respective redesigns connected by arrows. The longer arrows indicate greater improvements. We used a logarithmic scale to give equal prominence to relative improvements, the most reasonable indication of redesign skill. Thus
5 Steps to Service Blueprinting
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Hashable, the self-dubbed “ultimate networking app”, tracks what you say on Twitter and who you check-in with on Foursquare to create a “dynamic ‘relationship book'” of all your connections. If you Tweet that you’re “grabbing beers with @marshallk”
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Why Blockchain and Remanufacturing are a Perfect Match
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Users Interleave Sites and Genres
The user's sponsored link clicks were disappointing from an advertiser's standpoint: she wasn't looking to buy on their sites, merely to look at the information they provided. For example, after having identified several possible projectors, the user wanted to estimate total cost of ownership by
Kill the 53-Day Meme
When I was writing my recent book on hypermedia and hypertext, I needed a simple way to describe the growth of information for the chapter on information overload. One of my estimates was that the number of available servers on the WWW was doubling every 53 days. In addition to putting this
Marginalia of Web Design
Different pages need different titles. It is very unpleasant to visit, say, seven pages with the same title and then try to go back to a specific page from the history list. Also, of course, bookmarking more than one page from such a site is a guaranteed usability problem, since the
