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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Normal Modes is growing, and I’m yet another new employee. I’m Libby, the new user experience designer, and I’m old-school.
I’ve been working in web design since I graduated in December ‘95. Back then, my university offered only HTML and CGI [...]

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Over the past month I’ve toiled away on a special project:  a gallery of 51 simulated eye tracking heatmaps featuring the homepages of popular websites.  The heatmaps cover a variety of industries including travel, consumer retail, media, government & politics, a catchall category of “other,” and finally a few categorized as “fun.” (More information about [...]

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A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. If the design works as well without a certain design element, kill it.
- Jakob Nielsen

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“I love this site,” says Yeakel as she clicks through bar charts of her family’s energy use. “I called PPL and said, ‘Did you design this for me?’ Because I’m one of these people who love to know where my dollars [are] going and how can I save.”
How fabulous.
In a story on NPR today, Tammy [...]

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