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Weavora’s Guide to
Web App Usability
       by Mike
Form validation
Realtime masking
     think twice!!!
Form grouping
Date format matters
       be more human oriented!!!
Bad URLs
Modal pop up



Information on the background should be visible
Overlay should be movable
Have a titlebar

Have a close button & handle Esc

Pop up size is between 1/4 and 1/3 of existing window size
Alternatives
Date picker
Countries search
Data grid
Data grid
Inline editing
Inline editing
Inline editing
Inline edit UX
Super wide tables
             Organize most important
             columns to the left
             Experiment with frozen columns

             Limited # of columns in default
             view

             Offer column resize

             Offer columns rearrange

             Group editable cells with editable
             & vice versa

             Don’t abbreviate

             Try out fat rows

             Summary row = readability
             Continuous scrolling
Prior data visualization
In-column filtering
Readability
Empty container




Your inbox is empty
Button states
Interactive design
Collapsable content
Flash messages
Generic words
Error pages
Nice colors
Statistics
Sign up titles: {Create account (17%), Register (18%), Join (18%), Sign up
(40%), Start here (2%), Other (5%)}


Hints: {Static (57%), Dynamic (10%), No (33%)}; underneath (57%), top
(13%), left (4%), right (26%)

Dynamic validation
30% display only an error message on top (no input fields highlighted)
29% highlight input fields with corresponding message inline (no message on
top)
22% use realtime AJAX validation
14% use Javascript error warning
1% other

Confirm email {Yes (18%), No (82%)} Confirm password {Yes (72%), No
(28%)}

Alignment of Submit button {left (58%), right (16%), center (26%)}
41% of the forms provide benefits of the registration
11% inform the visitors how much time is required
54% requires at most 5 input fields, 34% requires 6-8 fields
62% had no optional fields at all

Communication
24% use conversational talk like "What's your name?" or "Your
e-mail, please …"
38% both Formal ("Your name" or "Confirm password)" &
System talk ("Login", "User name")

84% forms do not have any hover, active or focus-effects

Captcha {do not use (52%), 39% cannot refresh captcha
without complete page refresh}
{end...}
“To design something really well you have to get it. You have 
to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate 
commitment to thoroughly understand something — chew it 
up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time 
to do that. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a 
creative person how they did something, they may feel a little 
guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. 
It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they 
were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize 
new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that 
they’ve had more experiences or have thought more about 
their experiences than other people have. Unfortunately, that’s 
too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t 
had very diverse experiences. They don’t have enough dots to 
connect, and they end up with very linear solutions, without a 
broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s 
understanding of the human experience, the better designs we 
will have” by Steve Jobs

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