It is cool to see parts of the page move, unfold, and zoom the first time you visit it. When the same movement makes you wait the next time you load the web page, it becomes an annoyance rather than …
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If the user can’t find the product, the user can’t buy the product. The ability to get around a web site is extremely important for usability, but the key components of search and findability account for more than one-third of …
Usability can be a matter of life and death. In war a soldier in a fighter plane has a critical edge if his plane’s user interface for targeting and firing systems is just one second faster that his enemy’s. On …
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Trust and credibility are major issues on the Web, where even the biggest company exists only as a few words and pictures inside a browser window. Traducción: La confianza y la credibilidad son las cuestiones más importantes en la Web, …
Unless your scrollbars look like scrollbars, user might not notice them. Unless your scrollbars behave like scrollbars, user might not know how to bring the content they want into view. Traducción: A menos que tus barras de desplazamiento parezcan barras …
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Splash screens must die. They give users the first impression that the site cares more about its image than about solving their problems. Traducción: Las pantallas de inicio deben morir. El usuario recibe la primera impresión de que el sitio …
Our general advice is to wait five to six years after the launch of a new browser version before you stop caring about the previous one. For example, IE 5 was launched in 1999, so you could safely ignore version …
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Flash should not be used to jazz up a page. If your content is boring, rewrite it and hire a professional photographer to shoot better photos. Don’t make your pages move. Traducción: No debes utilizar Flash para adornar una página. …
Most of the sites that grew big in the 1990s featured bare-bones designs with few graphics and fast-downloading pages. Graphic designers complained, but users loved them. Traducción: La mayoría de los sitios que se hicieron grandes en la década de …
Designers often tell us that they open new windows so they don’t lose visitors to their site. But ultimately that’s a lost cause. If people really want to leave, they will. Traducción: Los diseñadores nos dicen a menudo que abren …