Amy Schade has conducted worldwide user research, including longitudinal studies, remote studies, and eyetracking research, running studies in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Start content with the most important piece of information so readers can get the main point, regardless of how much they read. This style of writing is perfectly suited to writing for the web.
The page fold still matters and still applies. Even though the exact location of the fold differs between devices, it exists for every single user on every single screen.
To transition images from mobile to desktop, consider relative screen space and information density. Pay attention to cropping, scaling, and proportions.
When using large-screen images on smaller screens, remove images that don’t add information. Then, pay close attention to cropping, scaling and placement.
While jump links have caused problems in the past, they can successfully be used to move users down long pages and directly to content, on any screen size.
Writing good tasks for a usability study is an art, not a science, but there are still rules. Examine your tasks for these 10 common task-writing mistakes.
A large-scale usability study revealed the most common and damaging web-design mistakes of today. They aren't surprising or new - they're enduring issues that continue to hurt website usability.
