Posts Tagged ‘Web’

Posted in Blog on November 13, 2009

Eliminating email confirmation

Make it as easy as possible for the first-time user to get to the system. One brilliant way to do this is to not require email confirmation after sign-up, but rather to let the user continue straight from the sign-up form to the system. Eliminating the email confirmation step streamlines t ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on July 14, 2009

Signup forms: Don’t require too much

This is a great example of a form requiring too much information. I filled out all of the fields and pressed continue, but nothing happened. I pressed continue again, and then a third time. Finally, I saw the tiny red Required text near the Title field. “Reduced object visibility m ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on June 7, 2009

Usability of vertical browser tabs

Tab Kit 0.5.5 One thing I miss about Firefox 1.5 is the ability for tabs to become gradually smaller as the user opens more of them. The tabs could get a little scrunched, but at least they were all visible on the screen. After Firefox changed to scrolling tabs from 2.0 on, it became clums ... Continue Reading