Most e-commerce sites today show search results in a gallery and include a set of filter controls along the top or the left side. How should the page respond to filter selections? There are 3 patterns I’ve come across.
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A common problem I find with busy e-commerce sites is lack of a clear “start signal”, which can be concrete, like an action, or more implicit, like a visual hierarchy. Either way, the user needs to know where to start.
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A good pattern library would help me define the user and the interaction problem I am trying to solve. It would be organized by user behaviors and goals rather than UI elements.
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Usefulness is a term I picked up at the NN/g usability conference in Toronto that I will be using a lot. Here are my thoughts on how usefulness relates to usability.
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You can create interesting image effects by slicing up an image into separate div tiles. Here is a jQuery plugin that takes care of the slicing.
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A solution to attaching click and hover events to circular elements that uses an image map overlay.
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I looked at different ways of creating and tweaking exponential function shapes. My goal was to understand functions better, so I can create custom easing functions. These are my notes.
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At what point does a bunch of trees become a forest? It’s tricky because a forest is an emergent concept. Such a thing does not really exist. Neither does “culture”, “brand”, or “customer satisfaction”.
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How does Business Analysis practice differ from Design Thinking practice?
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Everything should be designed. Everyone should be a designer.
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What is the place of user experience in Business Analysis? Can Design replace Business Analysis?
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Clarifying these words can bring great clarity to a project.
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