“Is it our duty as UX professionals to ‘train’ clients to embrace the whole of User Experience – or should our starting point be enthusiasm that they’re willing to consider users at all?” Janet Six, Managing Editor of UXmatters, collectedContinue reading… How to deal with clients who focus on only one aspect of a UX design
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Readability Formulas: seven reasons to avoid them and what to do instead
I had the honour of working with Ginny Redish on this article on readability formulas for the July 2019 edition of UXmatters. Ginny is a leading authority on writing, accessibility, and content design and usability. I’ve lost count of theContinue reading… Readability Formulas: seven reasons to avoid them and what to do instead
How to deal with long field names
How to handle very long field names was the question exercising the expert panel in the May 2014 edition of Ask UXMatters. We came up with a number of suggestions, but before implementing any of them, test with your users.Continue reading… How to deal with long field names
Don’t put labels inside text boxes – unless you’re Luke Wroblewski
One of my 2010 columns in UXmatters made it into the UXMatters All-Time Top 25: Don’t Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms. That was an unusual article for me because I came straight out and said, “Don’t.” Not “it depends”—Continue reading… Don’t put labels inside text boxes – unless you’re Luke Wroblewski