Usability poll: What are your thoughts about opening links as new windows?
Does opening links as new windows make the site less usable?
- It depends on the situation. (70.0%, 7 Votes)
- Only links to non-html pages (ex. PDFs) should be opened as new windows (30.0%, 3 Votes)
- Absolutely! One should never open links as a new window. (0.0%, 0 Votes)
- Of course not. In fact, opening new windows makes the experience more satisfying for the user. (0.0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 10
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Cooking up wireframes with Balsamiq
Before designing a website interface, usability engineers represent the base layout via a wireframe. I’ve tried various tools ranging from Visio to OpenOffice.org’s Draw, and have found Axure to be the most feature-rich item for our needs. Recently though I stumbled upon Balsamiq, an Adobe Air-based wireframing application that is a breeze to use.
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It’s been a while
Apologies for the stale content. A lot of work is a lame excuse for not updating the blog. Andoy and I will be posting very soon.
For a quick update: we are both attending a 4-day mobile usability workshop by the legendary Scott Weiss.
Exciting!
Not a lot of people can say they’ve actually met the experts in their field, and like I said in my previous post, I admittedly have a tendency to be a fan girl. Disclaimer though: just for the experts that I look up to in usability and HCI.
Lucky us, we’ve met several already.
We will resume regular programming very, very soon.