Episode 36: Usability
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News from Mint, a tool for grid designs, and 10 awesome usability findings.
News and Follow-Ups
- 01:40 – Intuit buys Mint
- 05:29 – Compress with gzip backward compatible? mobile browser compatable?
- 08:20 – Google lets you tell them what url parameters to ignore
- 11:27 – Digsby sees the light!
Webapps
- 13:47 – ReCSS – Bookmarklet that refreshes just the css on a page. via qasim
- 16:37 – Gridinator -http://gridin ator.com – Create website grids easily, then download them as html/css or an image! via quasim
Topics
- 20:00 – 10 Useful usability findings
- Labels go above the form
- Users focus on faces
- Quality design = credibility
- Users scan content and scroll fast
- Blue is the best color for links
- White space improves comprehension
- User testing doesn’t need to be extensive
- Make your search boxes wide enough
- Informative product pages help you stand out
- Most users are blind to advertising
September 29th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Those are good tips. As FYI Website Magazine did nice review of online usability tools http://bit.ly/2RATxW. User testing doesn’t have to be extensive. Some of these tools make it cheap and easy.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Thanks Bret, those are great. I want to do some testing/get tested by 5 second test. That one looks way cool