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10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and […]

Great tips on how to make web forms easier to understand and fill out, perform validation without causing inconvenience to

5 Ways Web Design Focuses on Usability, by Marisa Peacock Solid, common sense tips on how to build web sites

Wordle takes the text you provide and turns it in a typographic design. Sometimes the result is beautiful, sometimes it’s

This thoughtful post at Inspect Element is not about cutting down on visual elements of design for the sake of

Soft, subtle textures as opposed to wide spread grunge effects. Not that there is anything wrong with grunge; personally, I

This article is full of excellent advise for those who put off networking for fear of spending so much time

Got yet another request riddled with Web 2.0 mystery terms? Have a feeling the prospect does not have a foggiest

Exploit-Me is a suite of Firefox add-on created to test web applications for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and access