TOUCH HAS LANDED ON THE DESKTOP

nice list of usability and accessibility issues and solutions

the Hovenring - a roundabout in the sky for bicycles

"Five tips for using Google Analytics to set-up baseline and tracking trends in order to define goals, strategies, and concepts for a product's UX Strategy."

"Endless scrolling saves people from having to attend to the mechanics of pagination in browsing tasks, but is not a good choice for websites that support goal-oriented finding tasks." "infinite scrolling can feel like drowning in an information abyss with no end in sight"

Teams with a bias for making end up producing better designs than those teams that have a bias for planning. They're more informed about how they build and what their options are.

Various presentations on UX Strategy from the UXStrat Conference

Speaking at a free public event organised by the RSA, Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture.

People will only see the first frame or none at all in carousel. Ensure that important content is also placed mindfully in the IA and on another page of your site Use five or fewer frames Match the text and images in a carousel to the branding, so users don't think it is advertising

Carousels are "conversion killers"

Presentation comparing current UX opinion against data - both indicate that carousels should only be used if there is a justifcation

Nielsen sticks it to carousels

Only 1% of visitors click on a carousel feature

Do you need a carousel?