By Mufti Ali on August 31, 2010
Errors happen. No one wants them to happen, but they do. It’s impossible to predict every potential error that may occur and people will make mistakes and slips despite our best efforts. What we need to understand is that many errors are preventable and most errors are the result of poor design and not poor [...]
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By Mufti Ali on August 24, 2010
When designing websites and other applications are there ways we can guide users toward correct choices, help them interact with our systems, and generally make our sites more usable? Two ways we can help reduce errors are mapping controls to their effects and nudging people toward desired actions.
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By Mufti Ali on August 17, 2010
Errors happen. It’s inevitable that any system will fail at times. Often failures are attributed to human error. Most, though are really due to design errors. As designers what can we do to minimize errors and their effects on our sites and in our applications?
Posted in News | Tagged affordance, errors, Web Design
