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- 4 Design Elements Behind a Good Call to Action
An excellent summary of what makes a good call to action, with dozens of examples. - Device Classes & Responsive Design
- Designing Your Blog with User Interface in Mind
- What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
A great introduction to user experience design -- what it is, why it matters, and how to do it -- with pointers to lots of resources. - Scrolling and Attention
The question of how much information can go "below the fold" on a web page is one that is widely debated. This article presents some strong opinions that are firmly rooted in a lot of analysis of actual behavior. - 7 Tools You Should Be Using For Better Web Designs
Links to a nice assortment of tools, from heat maps to A/B testing and site monitoring. - A Look into Registration Buttons in Web Design
A great collection of sign-up and buy buttons, along with guidelines for designing effective ones for your sites. - The Principle of Proximity in Web Design
- Realism in UI Design
A lucid description of why too little, or too much, detail makes icons less effective. - Unmoderated, Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil?
Making intelligent use of remote usability testing tools. - Website Navigation Then and Now
A nice collection of nav bars from major sites, showing how they have changed over the past few years.
- How I draft an information architecture
- Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study
- Managing UI Complexity
- The Deming Cycle: an application to web design
- Keep Users Updated During Long Load Times | UX Booth
Resource Sites & Magazines
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Designing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen
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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Jenifer Tidwell
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Jason Beaird
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