User Experience Tips
Abercrombie & Fitch
June 01, 2006
User Experience Tips: Even some one as huge as Abercrombie & Fitch make mistakes, including poor billing forms, cross sale issues, poorly differentiated buttons and more.
Audi Worldwide
July 03, 2007
User Experience Tips: Audi may design great cars, but online they use a strange layout with wacky navigation, mystery icons, poorly sized input forms, and more.
Comcast
May 09, 2006
User Experience Tips: Comcast has great style, but poor design. Their use of flash leads to slow loading times, their navigation is duplicated and inconsistant, and their navigation images seem almost random.
Four Seasons
May 08, 2006
User Experience Tips: Four Seasons wants to reflect the fantasy of a resort hotel by presenting large airy imagery. However, their lack of usability planning has resulted in poorly placed links, dead ends, poorly built forms, and downright unreadable text.
Rolex
Jan 03, 2007
User Experience Tips: Rolex may be one of the most prestigious brands in the world, but with auto-playing multimedia, no search functions, and a total reliance on Adobe Flash, their websites user experience suggests the contrary.
User Experience Tools
Firebug allows you to access the structure of a page by enabling you to easily inspect and temporarily modify markup and scripts. It combines the ability to inspect and modify both HTML and CSS in real time, debug Javascript, and more.
Being able to test your design decisions is a crucial part of enhancing your user experience. Based on the same technology used in Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer is a free tool that allows you to run A/B/n and Multivariate tests.
Crazyegg provides heat map visualizations of user interactions with your site, giving you information about site interactions that is more interpretable than pure data.
Based on data from Google.com, Google Browser Size creates an illustrated overlay of average browser window sizes which it superimposes over your website. In effect this gives you an educated guess as to what percentage of your visitors can see key on page elements, such as calls to action, without having to scroll down your page.
1 in 20 people have some form of color blindness. Using an uploaded screenshot of your website, this tool analyzes color choices so that you can see whether your color choice cause accessibility issues for color blind individuals.
