Software by tag 'Usability'

10 Most Commonly Used Colors In Web Design And Their Examples

March 23rd, 2010 in Insipiration | View Comments

Colors become one of the most important part of any web design. Designers can create impression, emotion, style site based on color choices. Because the color is very important, designers must understand the meaning of colors in order to convey certain messages.

Here the meaning will be discussed and examples of the use of color in the web design. I will share the meaning of the 10 colors used in web design. Each color will be explained the meaning of positive and negative, also with examples of websites that use that color. Feel free to comment your experience when using color in developing website.

Notes: If you want to learn how to generate color palette for your web design, feel free to read our article about Online Color Generators.

Red

Red symbolizes passion, aggressiveness, power, and also help stimulate the energy, vitality. This color has a productivity effect, struggle, competition and the red color, however kebirahian also has a negative meaning of anger and emergency

Example: 45 Examples of Using the Color Red in Web Design

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WordPress Usability: Plugins That Make Your Blog More Visitor Friendly

January 7th, 2010 in Usability, Wordpress | View Comments

In a recent post, We touted the benefits of hacking WordPress over the installation of plugins. One of these benefits is that plugins can cause your blog to become bloated. Among other issues, a bloated blog takes longer to load. With the blogosphere being saturated with content on virtually any topic you can think of, making your blog as visitor friendly as possible should be one of your primary design goals.

While I certainly promote the use of hacks over plugins, I know that part of the beauty of the plugin is so that a blogger can create a fully-functional site without having to get their hands dirty with the code that drives their blogging software. Instead of looking at hacking the code, let’s take a look at a few plugins that can help build a more usable blog for your visitors.

Usability

The best definition of usability I have seen comes from the Base One Agency who states that “usability refers to how simple it is for customers to perform the desired actions on a website. Good usability can improve the conversion rate of a web site.” So in addition to how long it takes to load a WordPress blog, to achieve usability, you would need to look first at what the desired goals of your blog are. Is it to drive sales? Then your content needs to establish trust among your readers. For a more detailed look into the psychology behind usability, have a look at our previous post that covered Webpage Usability.

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Understanding Webpage Usability

October 14th, 2009 in Usability, Web Design | View Comments

Often when designers are creating new web pages, they rely on the design of the elements within a page. Banners have to look pleasant; navigation buttons have to be consistent and so on. But when these elements are placed together within a page, they create dynamics that attract user attention. The study on user attraction, or attentiveness, is a part of what is called usability – a guide on how to assess purposefulness of a user interface.

That is why you might notice that the most popular websites like Google and Facebook have minimalistic designs and there is a good reason for such approach.

Less Is More

There is a common saying amongst designers and developers alike – Keep It Simple and stupid. A webpage that sells shampoos to customers should only have the necessary webpages to sell that particular product and not anything else. Users don’t need to know the size of the bottle or even what colour of the shampoo would be.

When things are kept simple, users get to do tasks quickly and when they do, they will appreciate and come back to your website again.

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