Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable
Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable
Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable
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As one of the original 10 heuristics for web usability, visibility of system status remains among the most important and universally applicable principles in user-interface design. The goal is to provide the user with feedback about what is happening with the system or interface, within a reasonable amount of time, and, in Norman’s interaction theory, to bridge the gulf of evaluation between the user and the system.
One of the most common forms of system feedback on websites and applications is a wait-animation progress indicator . This design element shows “busy” feedback when the site is loading or processing information. In this article, we’ll explore the main types of...
Consider whether you need to ask for this information at all. Knowing the user’s designation does provide the opportunity to add a level of formality and respect to you future correspondences with the person. But if that gesture is not particularly important, you might take a cue form sites such
In some instances, there may well be good reason to use personalization to remove access to certain information. Examples include restricting a minor’s access to particular content or limiting employee access to a site section intended for employees in other areas of the world. An employee in
Continuous feedback? Only if you attempt an operation that the system feels like letting you do. If you want to do something that’s not available, you can push and drag buttons and icons as much as you want with no effect whatsoever. No feedback, only frustration. (A good UI will show in-context
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CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
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Carousel Usability: Designing an Effective UI for Websites with Content Overload
If you are using a carousel in the hope that people will see a variety of content, know that some people will only see the first frame or none at all. So ensure that important content is also placed mindfully in the IA and on another page of your site. Consider using a static carousel or hero image
Website Response Times
In a recent study for our work on Brand as Experience (now a full-day training course on branding and UX), we asked users what they thought about various websites they had used in the past. So, their responses were based not on immediate use (as in normal usability studies), but on whatever past
Breaking Web Design Conventions = Breaking the User Experience
Unfortunately, Bucknell hides their main navigation under a vague label, Start Exploring; the local navigation and related content are hidden under equally unenticing labels: In this section and Related Sections. Although hiding navigation can be a reasonable compromise for mobile, it does not
