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12 Effective Guidelines For Breadcrumb Usability and SEO

December 19, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

The term “breadcrumb” in web terminology is a metaphor for the way-finding technique employed by Hansel in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Although the metaphor is slightly misleading since within a web context, breadcrumbs do not always represent the path from which one has arrived at their…

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Usability Definitions – A UsabilityGeek & Usabilla Collab

December 5, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

For the past couple of months, the good folks at Usabilla have regularly added definitions to their Usability ABC. Today, I am proud to say that I have teamed up with them so that together we will double the effort behind the work involved in enhancing and maintaining an ever-growing…

Business

Mainstreaming Web Site Usability Through Automated Usability Evaluation

November 28, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

I have always been intrigued by the fact that although web site usability is proven to be an essential element in web design and development, there still exist an abundance of web sites with poor usability. This paradox is the result of limitations which I have written about in an…

Guidelines

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

November 14, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

As most of you may know by now, last week I have made my debut as a guest blogger on the almighty Smashing Magazine, specifically in the User Experience Design Section. Being chosen to write for them, interacting with such a professional team and eventually seeing my post published is…

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14 Guidelines For Web Site Tabs Usability

October 17, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

Tabs have long been used to show alternative views of the same group of information tabs in software. Known as “module tabs”, these are still used today in web sites. For instance, airline companies such as Ryanair, easyJet and AirMalta use module tabs to enable the user to switch between…

Terminology

The Difference (and Relationship) between Usability and Learnability

August 8, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

The difference between usability and learnability is a subject that has been discussed a number of times particularly because of the concerns that it raises as these two terms are quite often wrongly used interchangeably. The reason why I will be discussing them in this post is very similar to…

Terminology

The Difference (and Relationship) Between Usability and User Experience

July 11, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

After web site accessibility, “user experience” (abbreviated as UX) is probably the phrase that most people tend to confuse usability with. Whilst this topic has been discussed by various experts in the respective fields, I feel the need to write about it for two main reasons. The first reason is…