Tag Archives: Usability

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

Posted 14 February 2008 | By vinu | Categories: Web Development | Comments

Usability and the utility, not visual design, determine success or failure of a web-site. Since visitor page is only person who clicks mouse therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become standard approach for successful profit-oriented

Link: 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine

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Record mouse movement using AJAX

Posted 22 October 2007 | By vinu | Categories: Ajax, Javascript | Comments

Instead of eyeball tracking for usability professionals, here’s a way to track the mouse movements and click events of a user on a page.

The “movelogger� records the mouse movement a users does on a web site. Just before the user leaves the current page, the recorded data get posted back to the server using AJAX.
The cool thing is that you can “replay� these movements afterwards.

Want to try out a demo ? Check this link: http://pure.rednoize.com/movelogger/
Link: puRe aka Marcel Oelke » Record mouse movement using Javascript and AJAX

Few irritating captcha’s – Image verification

Posted 14 August 2007 | By vinu | Categories: Uncategorized | Comments

Recaptcha

“Oh God! Its irritating. Am trying to finish this form, but this image-verification is killing my time and patience. “

This is not from my mouth. This is what I have seen some user say while filling forms in few websites. The worst part is they don’t understand the characters in image. Some time its so tough that they don’t understand 50% of the characters. We all know that Captcha helps preventing the softwares from autofill.

Read more at: http://www.suggestusability.com/2007/08/few-irritating-captchas-image.html