Usability

Persuasive Web Design, Part 12: Over-Estimation of Big, Unlikely Events

We tend to over-estimate the likelihood that big events will happen to us. And, it follows, we tend to over-prepare…

14 years ago

Persuasive Web Design, Part 11: Three Levels of Trust

In a 2006 study*, Elizabeth Sillence suggested that there are actually three levels of trust. According to this model, the…

14 years ago

Persuasive Web Design, Part 10: Using Images of Common People

Months ago, I wrote a post on the importance of looking and acting like your target group. I suggested that…

14 years ago

The Usability Mindset, Part 4: "Self-Explanatory" is Not Good Enough

The crux of this post is so simple that I wrestled with whether it was too obvious to be a…

14 years ago

The Usability of Date Fields

Back in the good old days, when writing a check, you could format the date however you liked. For ultimate…

14 years ago

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