Content connections By Nic Price on 5 May 2011 — 1 min read How does a piece of content relate to other content? Learning, conversations, people, places, events, news, policy and procedure… Not an exhaustive list, and deliberately format-agnostic, but a helpful start when planning and thinking about web and intranet content. Let there be no cul-de-sacs. More
Traffic lights and inclusive design By Nic Price on 10 June 2010 — 3 mins read Why are there three separate lights in the standard traffic light setup? Why are they vertically arranged? In a nutshell: don't rely on colour alone to convey meaning in your information design. More
Talking of tabs By Nic Price on 30 April 2008 — 1 min read Make someone’s day! Tell them they can use the Tab key on their keyboard to move through a web-page. To those who already know, it seems obvious, taken for granted. But if you’ve ever watched people filling out boxes on forms on banking websites or when setting up an account on a website using the... More
Quick user research tip: Open All in Tabs By Nic Price on 30 April 2008 — 1 min read We’ve been running some design research sessions which involve several scenarios, each of which uses a slightly different design version for a website. Each scenario has its own starting page, each of which we put in a different tab in Firefox. This means setting up all the tabs and start pages for each research session.... More
Bonus-centred design By Nic Price on 23 November 2007 — 1 min read We’ve all seen it. The dreaded “Skip Intro”. The picture of the boss on the homepage obscuring any useful content or functionality. I was just discussing this with a friend and came up with a new name for an old problem “Bonus-centred design” Here’s how it works: Take direct orders from the boss. Do not... More
Britain’s online newspapers accessibility scores – should do better By Nic Price on 20 November 2007 — 1 min read Today Martin Belam publishes the scores from his excellent series of articles looking at the accessibility of the UK’s main national newspaper websites. The Times came out on top, even though it makes no use of an on-screen text-resizing widget, nor of accesskeys as shortcuts for keyboard users. Overall my conclusion has to be that... More