Lets be honest. Sign up forms suck.
As designers we often get carried away with how a sign up form looks and forget about the user experience. Border here, rounded corners there, maybe a hint of shadow…
Truth is users don’t care about how it looks. They care about getting through the form as quickly as possible. [...]
Continuing my mission of reading and reviewing one book per month, I recently completed Steve Krug’s new book Rocket Surgery Made Easy.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy is Krug’s follow up to the successful Don’t Make Me Think, which introduced us to the world of common sense web usability.
When you’re designing a form most of you will mark required fields with an asterisk (*). Then you’ll add something like “* Required fields” to the top of the form. But surely we now live in a world where everyone already knows this. Do we really need to include a legend indicating what the asterisk [...]
When a user visits your website, you have 5 seconds to grab their attention. Okay, maybe that’s not always true but none the less you want to make sure there’s a banana (banana being the key element you want your users to look at) to grab their attention.
You also want to make sure that visually [...]
Different colours mean different things to us and by using colour we can associate feelings and actions to certain situations.
As a web designer it’s hard to get the user experience design right first time, you never know how users are going to use the site or how big a difference small iterations will make, so it’s important to test the user experience and try out different solutions. That’s where A/B testing comes in.