Sliders are often the UI control of choice for letting users select a value or range from a fixed set of options. However, in practice, sliders are difficult to manipulate . Especially on touch interfaces, the level of control needed to meticulously operate a slider to an exact value is simply not realistic.
Definition: A slider is a control element that uses a knob or lever moved horizontally to control a variable, such as volume on a radio or brightness on a screen.
Imprecise Interactions
When designing a usable UI we must consider the context in which the interface will be used. For mobile design in particular, users often hold...
Currently, the only generic Web commands that truly work are those in browsers rather than on individual sites. Examples include Back, Forward, and Print. In the latter case, it would be much more useful if the generic Print button subsumed a page's Printer-friendly version feature; clicking Print
When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane
Simple user testing with a handful of users can often substantially improve product success, and was used by 85% of the winning projects. For example, an early design for the Mobile Unified Communication client used the command Add Call for placing a new phone call while putting the current party
How Blockchain Can Solve Major Problems for Gig Economy Freelancers
Blockchain technology maximizes the efficiency of cryptocurrency by routing the power to authenticate transactions through a network of nodes and participants. By bypassing banks, blockchain is able to eliminate time delays and transactional errors. Beyond expediting transactions, cross-border
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
Decentralized P2P Lending Services vs Networks
In contrast, each network member in the transitive trust networks establishes his/her own trust lines with other users. And by doing go he/she evaluates and weighs all the risks. At the same time, other participants can use its trust lines (for example, when making multi-hop payments, etc.). A
The Four Dimensions of Tone of Voice
We wanted to make sure changes in the 4 tone-of-voice dimensions would be noticeable to our users, and not just theoretical concepts. In preparation for an upcoming study, we used these 4 dimensions to create paired tone-of-voice samples for made-up websites from 4 industries (2 samples per
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Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Notice that this quality of good links is last in the list. Concision is important, but it must be balanced with the other priorities (specific, sincere, substantial) in link-label writing. There is no maximum word count for links. They can be as long as they need to be to achieve those other three
Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience
It’s been shown that NPS is closely related to the perception of user experience. In particular, scores on elaborate satisfaction questionnaires such as the System Usability Scale (SUS) are well-correlated with NPS. Thus, if most of your customers are reporting high loyalty to the point of
Touch Targets on Touchscreens
Glow Baby: The yellow and purple bars in the tracking history became nearly impossible to select if a nap or nursing session was very short. For example, a nursing session on March 15 was only 5 minutes, which caused the tap target (a thin yellow bar) to be only 6mm (0.2in) wide and not even 1mm
Tweaking to meet these usability guidelines is low-hanging fruit that can have a significant impact on costs. Such usability fixes lighten the load on the backend, because a better UX can prevent users from attempting the same actions over and over again. When people cannot sign up online, they
Conversion Rate: Definition as used in UX and web analytics
It’s a very safe bet to assume that removing any question from a form will result in a higher completion rate for the form and thus a higher conversion rate for the associated action. In real life, there's a reason for every extra question on the form: somebody thinks that it would be
Gutenberg—Believe in the Beauty of Your Dreams
The earlier way of designing websites involved using full page templates. These templates were helpful but very rigid and you ran the risk that your template matched someone else’s. With Gutenberg’s block approach, you get the convenience of pre-designed layouts, you don’t have to write
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WP Engine Sales and Customer Service Teams Recognized at The Stevie Awards
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
WP Engine's London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work
In 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace that is collaborative, productive, and fun. Today, we
Preventing User Errors: Avoiding Unconscious Slips
Some tasks really do require users to type very detailed or precise information, but forcing people to provide this information in a very specific format can be at odds with good usability practices: If you are asking users to input numerical information into a form, be flexible, and format that
Why Zen Mode Isn’t the Answer to Everything
For more complex formatting tasks or for less experienced users, keyboard shortcuts do not suffice, and the user must then refer to the chrome. Proactive exposure of tools when the user may need them might also alleviate some of the cognitive strain of remembering where everything is. For instance
5 Strategies for Presenting UX Remotely
Following these 5 general tips will improve your remote presentations. However, the best way to achieve success is to test and iterate: our presentation methods need to be tested and iterated upon just like the products we design. Zig Ziglar said “maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson
The 3 Biggest Threats Healthcare Data Security is Facing Right Now
The year 2017 suffered the greatest ransomware attack in the history of the internet. The WannaCry ransomware detected in hospitals of the UK. It then exploded across the globe and affected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries. This attack targeted the computers running with the
RW Q&A: Monisha Perkash, founder of Lumo Bodytech
Perkash came up with the idea for Lumo seeing her co-founder and CTO, Andrew Chang, suffering from debilitating back pain. Perkash is married to a spine and sports physician, so she could understand how important posture really was. Perkash advised Andrew to attend a posture class and as a result
3 Areas Where Blockchain Will Propel the Drone Industry Forward
There are many reasons that blockchain holds significant potential to improve data security across all sectors – not just for drones. With blockchain, data is decentralized and therefore, the owner of the information doesn’t need to rely on a third-party data security provider. Everything
Standardizing “Tribal Knowledge”: It’s Time for Your Company to Grow Up
I’ve found that the best way to foster standardization is to create a widely accessible company knowledge base — a place to capture intellectual property, best practices, and informal “tribal knowledge” contributed by employees along the way. This kind of growing knowledge base can
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Fifteen Podcasts You Must Listen to in 2019
This podcast, with host Tiffani Bova, is like listening in on two friends talking over coffee. With her eclectic guest lineup including leading thinkers, Best Selling Authors, an Olympic Athlete, an NFL Coach, and a Grammy Nominated Artist all sharing what they have learned along the way, and
5 Tech Missteps That Are Killing Your Company’s Potential
Businesses lose huge amounts of data every day because they either didn’t have reliable backup or failed to make sure it was running correctly. If you think it won’t happen to you, it will. Set up data backup for your business, verify that your mission-critical information is included in that
Slider Design: Rules of Thumb | Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2003
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2003
The search engine on my own site has the same problem: it relies on the operating system's file-modification date rather than the date the content was written. As a result, I've shut off the date feature in the search result listings. Such dates can be very useful, but they do more damage than good
Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
Don’t force users to “swipe” through your content: some will, many won’t. Allow for alternative ways of navigation: give users the option to navigate with menus, too. Menus tell users what’s on your site and help them find the information that they need. Users rely on them to go deeper
Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored
Sadly, in this case, neither search, nor navigation, nor the Population Finder led the majority of users to the correct answer. Indeed, search was particularly bad on this site. One user said, "I know where I can probably find it faster: Google," and promptly abandoned the official Census Bureau
