What are good resources to learn the basics of UX?
I’ll keep it simple:
Start with Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. then Elements of User Experience by JJ Garrett, then Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer, then Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and finally Sketching User Experience by Bill Buxton. The path after those books can take you into a million possible directions, but starting there will give you the gravity leap into outer space that you need.
Next to all this is find a community and a mentor. You need the community to learn from through example and conversation and you need a mentor who can guide you individually.
Good luck.
Hierarchical structure design and usability
I created a website for learning languages with flashcard method. The website itself is http://www.vocableman.com
The problem I have run into is that users are complaining that they have problems with understanding the functions and the …
How do we stop users overpaying in financial web forms?
Submitting my online council tax payment last week, I made a mistake. Instead of specifying £X.00 in a freetext payment field, I missed the dot and accidentally entered by £X000!
I’m currently waiting for my refund request, but in the mean…
Why is embedded help not popular?
I’m wondering why modern help systems are more passive than active? For example, each good guide through something look like this:
So why we don’t see this directly on website (service provider), but have to search for an…
UI/UX Design Patterns: What are good examples of registration flows that require a lot of info but manage to make it a painless experience?
When Twitter redesigned their sign up process with the goal of increasing user engagement, they actually added a screen / step. But, that actually helped them and they said the experienced a 29% increase in growth. It’s articulated very well in this article: http://www.lukew.com/ff/e
The key is to break up the sign up / process into logical steps for the user, keeping in mind that if you can show the user the result of their action, then they’re much more likely to keep going. People love feedback – show it to them.
Should Navigation menu have a fix position in application with greater width?
I am developing a web app with 1280px width. Planning to keep 1024 for content and remain as Menu with fixed position. On scrolling main content the menu will not scroll.
Will this be a good for user exp?
Making the user login again after registration
Is it a bad idea to automatically login a user after their registration was flawlessly completed? A majority of all the websites I visit does not use this behavior, which is the reason for my question:
Is there any reason why a user shou…
What are the little arrows called that hide additional details?
In UI design, sometimes settings are hidden behind a little arrow or “+” symbol. When the user clicks on it, the item expands to show additional details.
Does this UI pattern have a name? Other than “little arrow”?
For ex…
1 form or multiple forms for managing user accounts?
I am currently designing an interface for managing user accounts in a web application.
Essentially, in this interface, the user should be able to edit an account’s profile, disable/enable/close the account, change the password, manage the…
How can I demonstrate the importance of accessibility to a client?
How could I convince a client that visually impaired customers might want to use his e-commerce website? I want to demonstrate the importance of accessibility and convince him that we should try to make it accessible so that people of all …