Posted in Usability on March 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Resource Shelf noted a study today about the effects of Web document formatting on user comprehension and behavior (PDF). The University of Washington researchers recreated several different versions of an information site, with one set lacking global navigation (Figure 1 below) and another having tabbed navigation (Figure 2). Other variations included no introductory text (1A, [...]
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Posted in Usability on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
My inbox included the fortnightly reminder that a new Alertbox from usability guru Jakob Nielsen was online. The message also contained a request for case studies about measurable impacts of website design changes for an upcoming study. If you’ve redesigned your church’s site and have some metrics to back it up, send your data, before- [...]
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Posted in Usability on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
While doing some B2B usability testing, it became clear that some users weren’t aware of the common design practice that clicking on the company logo in the corner will take you back to the home page. The same probably applies to your church website’s navigation. Consider adding an explicit link to your home page within [...]
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Posted in Usability on April 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, offered a list of thoughtful Earth Day resources, but opted for print-based PDF files. Yet at best, PDFs are okay for providing forms and such that are designed exclusively for printing. Other than for that purpose, “PDFs are evil” and “unfit for human consumption” say the usability experts.
Now I [...]
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