In last week’s issue of our email newsletter, UIEtips, we published a fantastic article written by Luke Wroblewski, a Principal Designer at Yahoo!, where he discusses tips for improving web forms and impacting user success.
Today, we published the second part of the article where Luke shares additional design tips by taking a closer look [...]

In this week’s issue of our email newsletter, UIEtips, we published a fantastic article written by Luke Wroblewski, a Principal Designer at Yahoo!, where he discusses tips for improving web forms and impacting user success.
Read Luke Wroblewski’s article on Web Forms.
If you would like to learn more about design web app forms, you [...]

UIEtips 8/07/07: Web 2.0 — The Power Behind the Hype
Over the past few years, the world of web application development has seen the emergence of a new set of approaches such as APIs, RSS, and Folksonomies that have come to be known collectively as Web 2.0. These new approaches allow developers to easily create [...]

Handling and presenting large amounts of data is often a challenge many organizations are faced with. There are issues such as the number of fields that must be shown, the height and width of the cells the data must fit in, visual noise and redundant content, filtering and sorting mechanisms, vertical and horizontal labeling, and, [...]

UIEtips 7/31/07: Common Pitfalls of Social Web Applications, Part II
This week, UIE turns 19 years old. Over the years, we’ve seen technology come and go, features grow and shrink, and interaction styles dramatically change.
What used to be just a person interacting with a screen has become something more — people interacting with other people, [...]

At this year’s IA Summit, Kevin Cheng and Tom Wailes gave an interesting presentation called, Finding Innovation in the Five-Hundred Pound Gorilla. The talk centers largely around an innovative approach to product design based on a case study of one of Yahoo!’s “vision projects.”
The daily grind of the designer and information architect can become [...]

UIEtips 7/16/07: Learning from the Facebook Mini-Feed Disaster
When teams make critical feature changes in their designs, there’s always a risk of backlash from loyal users. That’s what happened to Facebook, the social networking site, a few months ago. Facebook’s designers created the mini feed, an exciting new feature that promised to offer users a vastly [...]

UIEtips 6/26/07: Web Application Form Design Luke Wroblewski discusses how variations in the alignment of input fields, labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.

This week Josh and I talk about all the ways we get in trouble. Whether its speaking in public or writing on our blogs, sometimes we kick up a sandstorm unintentionally. STC2007, Art vs. Design, and the Facebook API platform.

Ashley McKee points out how Hotwire.com advertises a “multi-city” search functionality that it actually doesn’t have, and asks what you recommend Hotwire do to fix it.