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Viva la Fingertip! Who Are All These People With Torches? (Part 2) - Click To Read Article
You've seen the commercials, played with someone's iPad (less dirty than it sounds, unless you're doing it right), and used your phone to check in on the Bulls game. But what are we really talking about when we say "touch screen"? Touch screen users access your web content in one of three ways: with a smart phone, with a tablet, or with an app, using either a smart phone or a tablet.

You Are Not Amazon - Click To Read Article
Amazon.com moves a lot of product. It processes 24 orders every second. Its 76 million (and counting) unique visitors would make it the world's 17th-largest country, if it were a country. And just about every person I have ever interviewed for a usability study has mentioned using it. This success doesn't mean that it's always smart to copy from Amazon. It's still necessary to think critically about your content, audience, and goals before implementing any feature from another website, even proven leaders.

Why We Choose the 'View More' Button Instead of Pagination - Click To Read Article
We changed the pagination method because we feel the "View More" button provides a much better user experience.

Search First, Ask Questions Later - Click To Read Article
Searches are an extremely important feature for most sites, as the first step of every user task is finding where to begin. A well-implemented text search generally does a good job when people know exactly what they want, but it's much less effective if they don't. To help these individuals, it's best to start with the assumption that your users are human.

Delegate: The Best Strategy for Displaying Online Video - Click To Read Article
In recent nerd-related news, Google revealed plans to remove support for the H.264 video codec from future versions of their Chrome web browser. Roughly translated, this means the people who build the tools for delivering web content (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Firefox, etc.) can't agree on how to display video - and the situation is about to get worse, without any solid standards-based solutions in sight.

Knowing Is Better Than Guessing - Click To Read Article
Article Highlights * You don’t need to test more than 5 people at a time. * Test early and often. * Focus on specific flows.

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