Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability"Don't Make Me Think!" provides much-needed answers to perennially debated questions about the right way to design Web sites by focusing the debate on real usability issues rather than from design turf wars. It can boost readers' "usability IQ" so they can detect usability problems in sites they manage, design, build or purchase. Two-color interior. |
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... Tabs are one of the very few cases where using a physical metaphor in a user interface actually works.14 Like the tab dividers in a three - ring binder or tabs on folders in a file drawer , they divide whatever they're sticking out of ...
... Tabs are one of the very few cases where using a physical metaphor in a user interface actually works.14 Like the tab dividers in a three - ring binder or tabs on folders in a file drawer , they divide whatever they're sticking out of ...
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... Tabs create the illusion that the active tab physically moves to the front . It's a cheap trick , but effective , probably because it's based on a visual cue that we're very good at detecting ( " things in front of other things ...
... Tabs create the illusion that the active tab physically moves to the front . It's a cheap trick , but effective , probably because it's based on a visual cue that we're very good at detecting ( " things in front of other things ...
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... tabs : > They're drawn correctly . For tabs to work to full effect , the graphics have to create the visual illusion that the active tab is in front of the other tabs . This is the main thing that makes them feel like tabs - even more ...
... tabs : > They're drawn correctly . For tabs to work to full effect , the graphics have to create the visual illusion that the active tab is in front of the other tabs . This is the main thing that makes them feel like tabs - even more ...
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Dont make me think | 10 |
How we really use the Web | 20 |
Billboard Design 101 390 | 30 |
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