It's hard to argue that usability is an important aspect of any web project. Making your content easy to use and enjoyable to your users can easily determine the success of any project. The great thing is that many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of web and interface design. In this session we will cover those usability findings and show you how you can easily implement the top 10 into your web site or mobile app.
(from the 2013 HTML5 Developer Conference)
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Paul Trani
Creative Cloud Evangelist, Adobe
17 years of making professional mistakes
4 year-old cleverly disguised as a reasonable adult
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Jakob Nielsen’s study on how
much users scroll (in Prioritizing
Web Usability) revealed that only
23% of visitors scroll on their first
visit to a website. This means that
77% of visitors won’t scroll;
they’ll just view the content
above the fold.
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Various studies have been conducted to find out just
what influences people’s perception of a website’s
credibility:
• Stanford-Makovsy Web Credibility Study 2002:
Investigating What Makes Web Sites Credible Today
• What Makes A Web Site Credible? A Report on a Large
Quantitative Study
• The Elements of Computer Credibility
One interesting finding of these studies is that
users really do judge a book by its cover… or
rather, a website by its design.
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Monday, October 28, 13
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The study found that the average search box is
18-characters wide. The data showed that 27%
of queries were too long to fit into it. Extending
the box to 27 characters would accommodate
90% of queries.
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Monday, October 28, 13