March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 9m
English
Content preview from Universal Principles of UX
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Rules are meant to be broken.
High usability is very important when it comes to websites or interfaces where users are trying to complete a task. But if we want to encourage people to play or want to be experimental, making something that violates all usability rules and is deliberately anti user friendly can actually increase engagement (see Principle 29).
But before we start breaking the internet, it’s important to at least be aware of the norm. In 1990, Jakob Nielson one of the world’s foremost experts in web usability, developed a list of ten heuristics for user interface design. This list has become the gold standard for usability ever since:
- Keep users informed about what is going on through appropriate feedback within a reasonable ...