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3 website designs in harmony with their content

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Alex Poole

It's quite satisfying when a website manages to reflect its subject matter fully through its visual design. Here are 3 sites that achieve this special kind of h...

AVG anti-virus/Barclays Bank/sneaky

When UI design goes rogue

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Alex Poole

User interface design and usability is usually a good thing, but what if UI design is used to push people into doing the opposite of what they wanted?

BBC news

UI serendipity

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Alex Poole

I’d love to think this happened by accident, but I think it’s more likely that the BBC web team gave it a little nudge… 😉

Amazon/GAK

Plagiarism or inspiration?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Alex Poole

You can imagine the scene in the boardroom – “We want to sell more stuff on the internet – Let’s brainstorm – who sells lots of st...

ACM/Bouygues Telecom/dotSUB/Focusrite

What have people got against the .info domain?

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Alex Poole

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...

feedback/help/visibility

Give direction

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Alex Poole

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 ...

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Featured articles

  • How Agile and UX can work together
  • Avoid jobs advertised as “UI/UX Designer”
  • Playing Top Trumps with UX
  • Good UX should bridge the divide between online and offline worlds

Original research

  • Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
  • Fighting bad typography research
  • Eyetracking metrics (book chapter)
  • How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks?

Good vs bad UX

  • Poster or stamp? Use sensible defaults for product previews
  • Plan ahead when designing semi-transparent overlays
  • Use sensible defaults on forms
  • Supermarket receipt with categories
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