Some Notes on UX

I’ve been collecting some notes from articles about UX for a while. After they reached some threshold, I thought it might be better to share them.

Here are those;

Chrome Obesity: Don’t Eat My Pixels

Back button is now only the 3rd most-used feature on the Web. Clicking hypertext links remains the most-used feature, but clicking buttons (on the page) has now overtaken Back to become the second-most used feature. The reason for this change is the increased prevalence of applications and feature-rich Web pages that require users to click page buttons to access their functionality.

The best-fit formula tells us that they spend only 4.4 seconds more for each additional 100 words.

The formula seems to indicate that people spend some of their time understanding the page layout and navigation features, as well as looking at the images. Clearly, people don’t read during every single second of a page visit.

Coders who designed software by default were standard issue in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The result was a flood of badly designed products that made an entire generation of normal people feel exceedingly stupid as they thumbed through the pages of their _____ For Dummies books. …

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