Despite our collectively dim memories of the rough and tumble days of dial-up, you would be hard pressed to find someone willing to wait more than a few seconds for a website to load without a sigh at the very least, if not an aggressive eye roll. The negative impact of slow speed on usability […]
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As a working student with a reasonable amount of loans on my back, I recently realized that I was in dire need of a way to track my spending. Like most people, I have multiple bank accounts and credit cards that I use to make my various payments and receive my deposits, not to mention
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Searching for a case of bad design as defined by Don Norman in his book The Design of Everyday Things proved to be far more difficult than finding a case of good design. This is likely due to Norman’s observation that users tend to falsely blame themselves rather than the design when something can’t be
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