The aim of The Usability Post is to provide relevant resources, tips and insights into good design in order to help you make great products.
Is It Usable?
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The Usability Post is a blog about design. Design isn’t what something looks like, design is about how it works. Making something usable means understanding what people expect from your product and thinking of ways to make the use of the product simple and enjoyable.
Alex Cohaniuc November 6th
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Great web site. I have suggestion about Creattica’s RSS design and usability. You should place images in each RSS post. I usually skip posts that do not have images. I do it because I am subscribed to a great amount of web sites, and each day receive about 200 posts.
Chris Ritke November 6th
Ha! Already subscribed. And I usually skip posts with too many images.
That 2nd sentence is weird. I can’t make stuff look good. Find the right colors. Figure out where to put white space. Which font to use. Or size for that matter. Hm. This is confusing. Because I always thought that if there’s one thing in life that I can be sure of: it’s that I’m not a designer. But I can make stuff work. Build stuff. Make it so people can figure out how to use it. So maybe I am a designer. But what am I supposed to call all those other people that I originally thought were designers?
Dmitry | UsabilityPost November 6th
Chris: Designers should figure out how features should work, where best to put this button, where to stick that tab, how to lay out the content so it makes the most sense, etc. The visual aspect is secondary in importance for most sites out there — function being the primary. Being able to use Photoshop doesn’t make you a designer; being able to craft usable interfaces does :)
Paul Davis November 9th
Subscribed months ago. :)
And I do agree with Dimitry, function first.
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