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The document provides 10 usability tips for designing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces. The tips include keeping the user informed of their location and available actions, avoiding frustration through back buttons and unnecessary reloads, respecting the user's time through remembering their data and progress, using consistent navigation, anticipating and clearly addressing errors, following the 80/20 rule to focus on core functionality, going with established design conventions, and extensively testing interfaces with real users. The most important tip is to test designs with users as early and often as possible.
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- 1. Top 10 Usability Tips
- 3. Be explicit. Let me know “What can I do on this page?”
- 5. Avoid unnecessary page reloads – use AJAX or other techniques
- 7. Remember my data. Learn and remember user settings.
- 12. Look for potential problems early and often – as soon as I leave a field, or when I’m done with the section or the first page.
- 14. Deliver the functionality that 80% of us want, and maybe a bit more.
- 15. Give me the option for an “Advanced Mode” if you have to offer complex features, and hide them from the beginners.X
- 17. See how other software does it, and model your experience after that.
- 18. Don't reinvent the wheel with a paradigm that goes against the grain of a well-established model. Unless your model tests better with users.And that brings us to tip #1 …
- 20. This is especially important for electronics or software that will be used by a wide user base.
- 21. If you don’t have the expertise, hire a professional to conduct your testing. The feedback is priceless.