user experience
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Facebook’s Hostile Interface Harms Neurodivergent Users
Try typing a bloody comment on Facebook these days. Your cursor hovers near a word, and boom: a pop-up suggesting pages you don’t care about. You’re mid-sentence, and Facebook’s autocomplete hijacks your keyboard to shove names and suggestions down your throat. You can’t move, type, or think without being interrupted by something trying to “help”…
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Your Website’s Navigation Could Annoy Your Visitors
So many website headers (especially on mobile) are bollocks when it comes to usability – or useful at all. They either hog the screen permanently like some needy toddler demanding attention, or they vanish completely, forcing people to scroll all the way back up when they actually need them. Neither works. This is an update…
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Sticky Headers – Yes or No? What Users Actually Want
Stop faffing about with what looks good and start paying attention to what actually works. Sticky navigation headers are everywhere because somebody once decided they were the answer to every website’s navigation problem. But are they? Most of them are unhelpful design fluff, taking up screen space that content should occupy whilst pretending to help…
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Why You Should Stop Using Animated GIFs for Instructions
Sounds like a rather direct suggestion but I am quite serious on this matter whenever I consult about website design and how to provide help via the web. Although animated GIFs have reduced in size massively thanks to new technology and image compression capabilities, they are still horribly outdated and inefficient. Animated GIFs are NOT…