Flash powered websites can be a challenge to use at the best of times, but spare a thought for those using devices that don’t support it, and more so where no alternative – such as an HTML version – is offered either.
But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link [...]

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen demonstrates how to hone a tweet in five simple steps.
We made a timeline message more punchy, credible, and viral through 5 rounds of redesign.

Fantastic.

A comparison of the virtual keyboards on the Android and iPhones… this appraisal gives the iPhone the nod this time.
A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It’s not that there’s a single feature which makes the iPhone’s virtual keyboard better than Android’s; it’s death by a thousand cuts. A number of small differences [...]

From a Jakob Nielsen usability study: websites designed to be served on mobile devices (iPhones, mobile phones, etc) tend to be a little easier to use than sites intended for viewing on desktop computers:
When our test participants used sites that were designed specifically for mobile devices, their success rate averaged 64%, which is substantially higher [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen argues that password masking – where asterisks or dots are displayed while typing a password – has few security benefits and, worse still, encourages the use of overly simple passwords as users believe them to be truly hidden.
Password masking has become common for no reasons other than (a) it’s easy to [...]

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen doesn’t think CEOs and Twitter make for a good mix.
Posting on the Web is the modern PR, and the CEO’s job is to articulate the company’s vision and direction, which requires more than 140 characters. Being perceived as a wise guy or a shallow thinker is not going to do your [...]

The state of mobile web design is lamentable according to usability guru Jakob Nielsen (and he’s probably right), but to ease the indescribable suffering of visitors accessing your website you should at least provide one mobile-device friendly version thereof for them to use…
For many sites, however, the only realistic option is to supplement the main [...]

The braille wine label by Lazarus Wine… useful and beautiful at the same time.

Excellent write up by Chris Campbell on designing websites, and other interfaces, that cater for viewers effected by colour blindness.
Color deficiency, or color blindness as it’s commonly referred to, doesn’t mean that I or people with similar conditions cannot see certain colors. They’re not invisible and I don’t see in black and white (a [...]

User experience guru Andy Budd and why businesses with websites that are usable, and user friendly, will have an edge over competitors with not so easy to use websites.
Well, first off, most websites are incredibly inefficient and converting customers, and can you blame them? Up until now it’s all been about volume rather than efficiency. [...]