Better Navigation Through Proprioception
Close your eyes and touch your nose. How did you do it? How did you sense where your hand was, and direct it to the right point? You’re not using sight, hearing, taste, smell, or touch (except right at the end). Instead, you’re relying on proprioception: the sense of your body’s position in space, and the position of various parts of the body in relation to each other. Proprioception—sometimes reg
Product Management for the Web
Whether we prototype, write, design, develop, or test as part of building the web, we’re creating something hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions of people will use. But how do we know that we’re creating the right enhancements for the web, at the right time, and for the right customers? Because our client or boss asked us to? And how do they know? Enter product management for the web. For t
Organizing Mobile
Align with how people use their mobile devices and why. Emphasize content over navigation. Provide relevant options for exploration and pivoting. Maintain clarity and focus. Align with mobile behaviors In the previous part, we talked about the constraints and capabilities that make designing for mobile unique. Similarly, the desktop web also has a set of limitations and possibilities that make it
A Checklist for Content Work
If this looks like theory, don’t be fooled. It’s really entirely practical: if we consciously refer to principles like these as we go about our work as info-nerds of various kinds, we’ll have an easier time making good, useful content, and explaining our priorities when we’re called to do so. Good content is appropriate#section2 Publish content that is right for the user and for the business There
Sign Up Forms Must Die
We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step. But before we get into the potential of gradual engagement (your path out of sign-in “dullery”), let’s look at how the p
Design Patterns: Faceted Navigation
For instance, applications rely on a mix of scented widgets for viewing and interacting with facet values, and some shift facet selectors to the top or right rather than the left. Presenting facets along the top draws added attention to the narrowing facility. Given massive result sets, this is an effective way to highlight the data structure and draw users into filtering. Top placement may someti
Whitespace
My first design job was with a small print design agency in Manchester that produced work in varying media: packaging, publications, and marketing support materials, and…direct mail. I soon discovered that the graphic design principles I’d learned in college were of little use when I designed for direct mail, where big, bold, and crowded is the order of the day. In the words of one client—words I
A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination. Everyone loves paper#section2 Just as a political party aims to be a “big tent,” product development teams should seek input fr
12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
Finally, don’t forget that there are things layout tables can do, and then there are things CSS can do. Some of these capabiities are mutually exclusive, and this doesn’t diminish the power of CSS. Lesson No. 2: It’s not going to look exactly the same everywhere unless you’re willing to face some grief… and possibly not even then#section3 There are an awful lot of differences between rendering en
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The Survey, 2008