Neurodivergent users face executive-function, communication, and sensory challenges. Neuroinclusive design helps all users by focusing on simplicity, clarity, control, support, and co-creation.
Disabled buttons often confuse users by appearing clickable but providing no response or feedback. Designers should use them sparingly, ensure they’re accessible, and clearly explain why the button is disabled.
Design effective checkboxes by using square boxes, clickable labels, and clear, positive wording. List items vertically with instructions, and ensure legal checkboxes are unchecked by default to respect user consent.
Keyboard accessibility is crucial for inclusive web design. Test your site using only a keyboard to ensure clear focus states, access to all interactive elements, and logical tab sequences.
When conducting usability testing with older adults, understand the unique needs of participants in this age group and adjust your test setup and tasks accordingly.
The computer mouse is the most efficient pointing device for speed and accuracy. More important, it's the symbol of user empowerment and control over the user interface.
If the foreground color (the actual words) is too similar to the background color, legibility suffers, and users can't read your copy. Simple tweaks make websites much easier to read.
The relationship between accessibility and usability and the best ways to convince companies to take both seriously were some of the audience questions answered by Jakob Nielsen at the Virtual UX Conference.
The number of older adults who use computers and the Internet grows every year. This user population does have special needs, driven by the human aging process, and modest design changes can vastly increase the business you get from seniors.
Our new user research with older adults (users aged 65 and up) shows 3 major shifts in how they use computers, compared with our first research with this audience, 20 years ago. Design for today's older users, and not for your stereotype of how these users used to be.
Inclusive design is a philosophy that redefines what it means to be human-centered. To design inclusively, designers need to respect and represent many different perspectives.
