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3 User Experience Tips When Using Radio Buttons

10 Feb , 2012

by Andrew Wirtanen

From a high-level, it seems obvious: check boxes are for multiple selections and radio buttons are for mutually exclusive options. It is usually easy to select the proper web form element, but it can get tricky in some situations… History of the Radio Button Let’s take a step back and review how radio buttons came [...]

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User Experience on a Budget: Expert Reviews

1 Feb , 2012

by Andrew Wirtanen

One of the services offered by our User Experience team is what we call an Expert Review. The end result of an Expert Review is an easy-to-digest list of must-fix issues, smaller issues, and positive attributes. In the field of usability, an Expert Review is also called a Heuristic Analysis or Heuristic Review. It’s a [...]

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Do Breadcrumbs Improve Usability?

26 Jan , 2012

by Andrew Wirtanen

One of the first usability critiques of website is usually the lack of breadcrumbs. If a site doesn’t have breadcrumbs, it is immediately perceived as difficult to use. While the latter may be true, I don’t think it’s usually because there are no breadcrumbs. I’ll explain that later. Wait, what are breadcrumbs? Breadcrumbs are these [...]

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Customer Service is not dead on Cyber-Monday

29 Nov , 2011

by Daryl Hemeon

There is nothing more horrific to me than Black Friday.  I would rather spend the day in the park with my kids than fight the masses for the holy grail of deals.  Now Cyber-Monday I thought I could handle as well. Last night I attempted to purchase some toys from ToysRUs.com.  The inventory was rapidly [...]

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Posted in: Business & Internet, Holiday Ecommerce, User Experience, Web Analytics, Web News/Trends, Web Programming
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To Design or Not to Design? Review of Marshall Brain’s presentation at Internet Summit

17 Nov , 2011

by Daryl Hemeon

Marshall Brain (@brainstuffHSW) from HowStuffWorks.com took the stage to kick off day 2 of the Internet Summit in Raleigh and threw down a great argument for why we should care less about design and more about function.

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