User Interface Design Articles

Current Article

Judging the Severity of Usability Issues on Web Sites: This Doesn't Work, October 2005

Past Articles

Four Basic Activities to Reach Optimal Usability, August 2005

The Value of Iterative Design, July, 2005

Paper Prototypes Work as Well as Software Prototypes, June 2005

Users Are Not Good Designers, March 2005

Evaluating the ‘Evaluator Effect’, September, 2003

Website Breadcrumbs, August, 2003

‘Concurrent’ vs. ‘Retrospective’ Comments, July, 2003

Using Visualization in Websites, June, 2003

Using Photographs to Increase Trust in a Website, May, 2003

The Effects of Bold Text on Visual Search:The Downside of Highlighting, April, 2003

Major User Interface Issues in the Near Future, March, 2003

Linking vs. Searching: Guidelines for Use, February, 2003

Do's and Don'ts of Effective Web Design: A Summary of the UIU-2002 Research, January, 2003

Optimal Line Length: Research Supporting How Line Length Affects Usability, December, 2002

Website Layout: What Works Best--Fluid, Centered, or Left-justified?, November, 2002

Making Research-Based Design Decisions: Results of Research Poll, October, 2002

Making Research-Based Design Decisions: What is the Best Way to get User-Centered
Research Results to Practitioners?, September, 2002

Age Classifications: When Considering the Age of Users, How Old is "Old"?, August, 2002

Readability Formulas and Writing for the Web, July, 2002

Parallel Design, June, 2002

Iterative Design, May, 2002

Challenging Current Practice, April, 2002

More About Fonts, March, 2002

Location of the Scrollbar, February, 2002

Do's and Don'ts of Effective Web Design: A Summary of the UIU-2001 Research, January, 2002

How Good are Designers at Predicting User Performance?, December, 2001

Multimedia and Learning, November, 2001

How Reliable is Usability Performance Testing?, October, 2001

Designing for the Elderly, September, 2001

The Growing Popularity of Usability, August, 2001

Efficiency in Design, July, 2001

Website Consistency, June, 2001

How Long Should Users Have to Wait?, May, 2001

What Screen Resolution Should We Design For?, April, 2001

Heuristic Evaluations vs. Usability Testing Part II, March, 2001

Heuristic Evaluations vs. Usability Testing Part I, February, 2001

Usability Related Observations from COMDEX 2000, January, 2001

The Usability of Punched Ballots, December, 2000

Calculating the Number of Test Subjects, December, 2000

Link Affordance, November, 2000

Reducing Reliance on Superstition, October, 2000

Human Interaction Speeds, September, 2000

Menu Selection, August, 2000

Improving User Performance, July, 2000

Screen Resolution, June 2000

Web Page Design Facts, May, 2000

e-Commerce Success?, April, 2000

Larger is Much Better, March, 2000

Speech Recognition, February, 2000

Web Design Guidelines, January, 2000

Optimum Time of Day for Optimum Performance, December, 1999

User Interface Displays, November, 1999

Multimedia and Working Memory Limitations & Multimedia in Instruction, October, 1999

Web Site Identity, September, 1999

e-Commerce and Screen Design & e-Commerce Pricing, August, 1999

Handedness and Other Preferences, July, 1999

Heuristic Evaluations, June, 1999

Paging vs. Scrolling, May, 1999

Breadth vs. Depth, April, 1999

Screen Fonts & Speed Reading, March, 1999

Reading Speed and Comprehension – Then and Now, February, 1999

Prototyping, January, 1999

Usability Testing & Usability Software, December, 1998

Age Considerations & Training and Age, November, 1998

Proper UI Design & Efficient Design, September, 1998

Displaying Information & The Best Way to Learn, August, 1998

Web Usability & Multimedia, July, 1998