Category: Web usability

This is a translation from my original post in spanish. I hope you like it! We are planning a new design for our website and doubt between using blue, red, pink, yellow, ... What would be better? What if I put bright pink edges? Surely no one would forget my web ... All the ones who have built a website once have gone through this process. What color to choose? Why can't I just put fluorescent orange background? Well, some things seem obvious, but others less so. I will try to order some ideas on this issue in this post. When designing a website, the first thing you have to think about is what is it's objective, from that point, try to steer the user towards this goal. For example,…

In general, design consistency its about avoiding the user having to think at all times how to do what he wants to, and for that purpose the best way its to make things appear always in the same way, so once learned how the site works, learned forever. Consistency with other websites This is one of usability foundations, if your niche websites place a triangle shaped button where it says "Go to checkout" and you decide that this button will be a square and say "Order", possibly the user will lose a couple of seconds looking for the triangle button he is accustomed to. If users have become accustomed to something through other websites of your niche, copy those "standards" and make life easier for the user. Example: The RSS…