Articles by Clinton Lanier

3 Cultural Characteristics Affecting the Way People See Your Website
Culture determines how we read information, what we eat, what our beliefs are, and even what we prefer in a website. This article discusses three cultural characteristics to keep in mind while designing sites for different audiences.
Published 10Aug2010, viewed 195 times

How to Use Eye Tracking Software to Test Your Website's Usability
Testing websites and interfaces for usability is one of the most important steps you can take to make sure your site is effective for your users. One method for doing this is by using eye-tracking software.
Published 09Aug2010, viewed 234 times

Consider Font and Page Size When Writing for the Web
Understanding the rules of what fonts to use and why, and how to properly write for the web are important strategies for any web designer. Even if you make a brilliant design you still have to put words on the page. This article discusses some of the considerations to make.
Published 27Aug2010, viewed 282 times

Using Culture to Design More Usable Websites
Culture is a huge consideration when designing websites. Not everybody reads or understands information the same way, and culture especially plays a very big role in how we view websites. Even the most basic understanding of this principle is needed before designing sites that may be viewed by people from different cultures.
Published 26Aug2010, viewed 264 times

Use Metaphor to Improve your Website Design
Using metaphors to help design your websites is a novel way of helping your users quickly understand their way around your site. If they understand the metaphor, then they should easily understand your site and how to use it.
Published 22Aug2010, viewed 512 times

Using Retro Style in Web Design?
This article considers what truly retro web design would look like and discusses the techniques used to create a real retro website. The question may be, why would you want to do that anyway?
Published 22Aug2010, viewed 316 times

How to Use Task-Based Testing to Improve Your Website's Usability
So you want to improve your website's usability, but where do you start? This article discusses the types of tasks you can add to usability testing to make sure you have a more usable website.
Published 06Aug2010, viewed 168 times

How Usability Failed the Apple Newton
Presents a simple case study about the Newton made by Apple in the early 1990's. Though a great and novel product, the Newton was released well before its usability was carefully considered, thus contributing to its failure.
Published 06Aug2010, viewed 198 times

A Novel Way of Testing the Usability of a Website
Article discusses a quick and easy way to test your website's usability using something based on cognitive psychology called the tapping task.
Published 06Aug2010, viewed 178 times

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