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Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

If appropriately used, dropdowns don’t have to be awful.

Find out how to pick fonts for your user interfaces that aren't just beautiful, but also improve your websites' usability.

People interact with touch-based user interfaces with their fingers. So user interface controls have to be big enough to capture fingertip actions without frustrating users with erroneous actions and tiny targets. Ok, so how big?

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

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User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the process in information about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on users through the planning, design and development of a product. […]

Why abstractedness is key to comprehension for icons and symbols used in UIs.

Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!

Designing websites and related media for kids presents plenty of opportunities for Web designers. Openings are available at many businesses and schools, as well as through parents and kids themselves, giving designers many ways to find work on electronic and print projects that appeal to kids. The types of work range from interface designs for video games to websites for birthday parties.

Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn't matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can't quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere. So how do you make your website as usable as possible? Well, you're in luck, because this article features 20 usability tips for your website. Technology will always change, thus changing the usability tips. So make sure you share your own tips and tricks with the rest of us.

"Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields." "Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again." For one of my side projects, Leafy Chat, we have just added the concept of user accounts. This includes the need for registration and log in (as well as log out and forgot password and so on). Leafy Chat only requires an email address and a password for both registration and log in, so it would be great to have some clever way to have both forms on the homepage. Some things...

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