#usability

The length of your instructional text is almost always inversely proportionate to the usability of your product. Unfortunately, I’ve been saying this for so long that I can’t remember if I stole the idea, modified the idea, or came up with it all on my…

While I firmly believe that the length of your instructional text is almost always inversely proportionate to the usability of your product, I also believe that the right help text at the right place and time can be invaluable to the usability of a web…

I was thinking today and realized just how many different conversations I’ve had with people about buttons. What should the text be? Where should they be placed? Should they be regular HTML buttons or images? What about reset buttons? We’ll start with…

The vast majority of cases where forms offer a button to reset the form would be better off foregoing the button entirely.

If it needs instructions or you have to explain it, there’s room for improvement.

Today’s error messages are a huge improvement of the error messages of latter years, however they still have a long way to go. I’ve put together the following list of the most common problems with error messages. Disclaimer: You should always use both…