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Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy at 83% and MarketLive at 62.14%). The main question is why do customers abandon their shopping cart so often? Is there some fundamental mistake that designers of e-commerce websites do very often? Are there any common guidelines or rules of thumbs that make it more difficult for our users to purchase products? And is there some meaningful way to improve the conversion rates for our products?

Conceptual and task-oriented information. Guides include overviews, tutorials, programming guides, server administration guides, and, for developer tools, user guides.

Inspired by TomDoc, KSS attempts to provide a methodology for writing maintainable, documented CSS within a team. Specifically, KSS is a documentation specification and styleguide format. It is not a preprocessor, CSS framework, naming convention, or specificity guideline.

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An essay from the Windows Vista shell team about menus: why they're good, bad ... how ribbons are different ... and the new User Experience (UX) guidelines

"Contents & Guidelines 1. General Moral Imperatives. 2. More Specific Professional Responsibilities. 3. Organizational Leadership Imperatives. 4. Compliance with the Code. 5. Acknowledgments."

must read for every coder - for his work and career

1. Form Labels Work Best Above The Field 2. Users Focus On Faces 3. Quality Of Design Is An Indicator Of Credibility 4. Most Users Do Not Scroll 5. Blue Is The Best Color For Links 6. The Ideal Search Box Is 27-Characters Wide 7. White Space Improves Comprehension 8. Effective User Testing Doesn't Have To Be Extensive 9. Informative Product Pages Help You Stand Out 10. Most Users Are Blind To Advertising

I recently finished reading Tim Brown's new book "Combining Typefaces." It's 63 pages. You can buy it for less than $5 on FiveSimpleSteps, as a pdf or epub. Combining Typefaces is a dense book. It goes through a lot of concepts very quickly, but I'm a fan of that. The book may be primarily about combining types, but I think it serves as a great introduction to typography as a whole. It goes over anatomy and general terminology, but the book primarily approaches typography as a form of artistic communication, instead of just a set of guidelines and formulas. This is important, because that means it accepts subjectivity. There is no one answer to type, no winning approach; all we have are the techniques and patterns observed and used by of artists and designers throughout centuries. It challenges you to think about typography in your own way: how will you create what you want to communicate? What will you use? How will you use it?

The SparkPeople Calorie Calculator & Fitness Tracker can be used to estimate the calories you need to consume each day. This app can also provide some simple guideline if you want to gain or lose weight. Your body needs energy to carry out daily activities. This energy comes from the foods we eat.

The Composite Client Application Guidance is intended to make it easier to design and build modular WPF and Silverlight client apps with rich user interfaces and loosely coupled, independently evolveable, UI pieces.