Highlight selection with an obvious cue
You can make a selection by clicking a radio button, but it’s also nice to receive very obvious feedback as shown in this video. The example comes from th...
Author: Alex Poole
What have people got against the .info domain?
It is a full 8 years since the .info domain came into being, and many sites, including high profile ones like the ACM haven’t updated their validation...
Give direction
Often people don’t know what they can do in an app. It’s useful to give them a bit of direction especially if the workflow or way of interacting is ...
Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of...
How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks?
A masters thesis and conference paper exploring the effect of bookmark naming on bookmark recognition.
Eyetracking metrics (book chapter)
I wrote this book chapter to provide a comprehensive listing of eye tracking metrics and what they mean in the context of HCI and usability.