Overly fast interfaces are error prone and encourage users to rush through websites and other systems. Design to reduce interaction speed and increase users’ understanding and task success.
Human ears exhibit micromovements that can be analyzed to identify design elements that surprise or startle users in a usability study. Eartracking has some advantages over eyetracking.
Public restrooms are plagued by unusable toilet-paper dispensers, difficult flushing controls, and poor stall-status visibility. Many of these issues can be addressed by following standard usability practices.
When creating interfaces for canines, keep in mind their mobile, social, and visual traits, and modify your usability-testing methods to suit this audience.
Allocating too much autonomy to technology can degrade the user experience by disempowering users to the extent that they can’t escape the computer’s decisions.
Today we announce a vastly superior menu design that scales to both mobile devices and desktops and supports faster access to custom menu elements, thus overcoming two key deficiencies of current hamburger-menu designs.
