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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘usability’
Drupal – How to Get a List of your Active Modules
25 Jan , 2012
How to get a list of active Drupal modules – all from within your browser! Use this jQuery snippet to render a table complete with links to each module’s project page.
WordPress Debugging – “Doing It Wrong” warnings
16 Jan , 2012
Wordpress 3.3 introduced some not-so-helpful warnings for when you’re not “doing it right”. But they gave us a hook (`doing_it_wrong_run`) to make things more helpful – here we discuss a simple trick to tell us exactly where we went wrong.
Usability and Design – Internet Summit Notes Day 2
16 Nov , 2011
The User Experience is Your Brand @drewdiskin Drew Diskin, M.S. Digital Engagement Strategist, Inertia Commentary: I think Drew had a powerful story to tell, using this story of John Hopkins and showing more specific examples of HOW they turned around their results, HOW he got C-Level buy in would have made this a much more [...]
You don’t need a hallway to have a hallway test.
25 Feb , 2011
Here at Atlantic BT we take great pride in our User Experience capabilities. They help guide our designers and developers into making some truly outstanding websites. We’ve equipped ourselves with a series of tools and methodologies that are proven to deliver delighted users. We rely on user stories, card sorting, site outlines, interviews and wire-frames to [...]