22 UX Myths

Posted on July 21st, 2010, by Cristian in User Interface & Experience

Build your website based on evidence, not false beliefs!

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true. And you don’t have to take our word for it, we’ll show you a lot of research findings and articles by design and usability gurus.

Myth #22: Usability testing is expensive

Myth #21: People can tell you what they want

Myth #20: If it works for Amazon, it will work for you

Myth #19: You don’t need the content to design a website

Myth #18: Flash is evil

Myth #17: The homepage is your most important page

Myth #16: Search will solve a website’s navigation problems

Myth #15: Users make optimal choices

Myth #14: You are like your users

Myth #13: Icons enhance usability

Myth #12: More choices and features result in higher satisfaction

Myth #11: You need to redesign your website periodically

Myth #10: If your design is good, small details don’t matter

Myth #9: Design has to be original

Myth #8: Stock photos improve the users’ experience

Myth #7: Graphics will make a page element more visible

Myth #6: Accessible sites are ugly

Myth #5: Accessibility is expensive and difficult

Myth #4: Design is about making a website look good

Myth #3: People don’t scroll

Myth #2: All pages should be accessible in 3 clicks

Myth #1: People read on the web

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Wireframe Showcase

Posted on May 25th, 2010, by Cristian in User Interface & Experience

Wireframe Showcase is a user-contributed wireframe and UI sketch gallery. I quite like the idea and it’s good that designer can share their ideas with sketches and wireframes.

Quick Overview: Appcelerator Titanium

Posted on April 8th, 2010, by Cristian in Development, Tutorials

Here is a nice presentation form NetTuts as they try to build a iPhone App, of a service called Appcelerator which allows developers to build native desktop and mobile (iPhone in my case) apps using the web technologies that we already know, like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby and PHP! This is a alternative to Abobe AIR but it’s also supports mobile platforms. I recommend this platform for anyone who doesn’t have Objective-C experience.

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Pure CSS3 photograph effect

Posted on April 7th, 2010, by Cristian in User Interface & Experience, Xhtml & CSS

This is something created by Eren Emre while playing with the new CSS3 features like the transformbox-shadow. This is a awesome example which proves the power of CSS3.

See yourself how to do it

JavaScript Like Ruby

Posted on April 6th, 2010, by Cristian in Javascript & jQuery


JS.Class is a library designed to facilitate object-oriented development in JavaScript. It implements Ruby’s core object, module and class system and some of its metaprogramming facilities, giving you a powerful base to build well-structured OO programs.

    var Event = new JS.Class({
        include: JS.Observable,

        fire: function(data) {
            this.notifyObservers('fire', data);
        }
    });

JS.Class is designed to make JavaScript behave like Ruby in terms of its OOP structures. It provides Classes and modules with Ruby-compatible inheritance, Subclassing and mixins, Singleton methods and eigenclasses, Method binding, Ports of various standard Ruby modules, including Enumerable, Hash, Set, Observable, Comparable, Forwardable.

The library looks pretty interesting, the documentation is good and there are a lot of cool modules. I have to try it.

What do you think about it? Write down your thoughts and experience with it.

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