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When researching websites, I often see a lot of call to actions like “Read more” linking to an article or deeper content. There are a number of reasons why this is not a great idea. The most obvious is that the “Read more” description isn’t a description at all. It doesn’t tell me anything about [...]

Tagged as: User Experience

A new book has been released in the “A Book Apart” series. Luke Wroblewski, best known for his research on forms, has written a book about mobile websites and apps. If you are familiar with Luke, you know he is pretty much the authority on this subject. In a recent podcast with Jared Spool he [...]

Tagged as: Mobile · User Experience

Worked extremely hard these last two weeks to release this new website. Take a look at the SEO dropdown menu. The objective was to incorporate SEO text on the homepage of the site and at the same time increase the findability of deeper content. I decided to go for a jQuery rich dropdown menu with [...]

Tagged as: jQuery · SEO · User Experience

Imagine the following scenario: while looking for specific information you came across a PDF file that had all the information in it you wanted. You downloaded the file and saved it in your documents folder. Since you didn’t have time to organize files – you never seem to have enough time – the file isn’t [...]

Tagged as: Usability · User Experience

After experiencing my iPhone for the last 2 weeks, I noticed that the worst user experiences I had with websites were the ones with one-word hyperlinks. It is very hard to actually tap a one word hyper link if you have anything but the tiniest fingers. A solution for this is to make sure you [...]

Tagged as: iPhone · Mobile · Usability · User Experience