TechKnack

Here’s an interesting question: when presenting a list of locations and related timezones for the user to choose from, how should they be ordered?
Having been in the internet for long enough to know my timezone, I was taken off guard when Guru.com presented me with the following dropdown list:

Naturally, knowing my own timezone and expecting [...]

I’ve just finished a little project that I’ve been working a few days on: replacing a form’s dropdown field (such as a State or Country field) with a more usable text field with auto-suggest. Jakob Nielson, a “usability expert”, has posted a couple of articles (Does User Annoyance Matter? and Drop-Down Menus: Use [...]

Circular menus. Ever heard of them? I’m not sure if they have an “official” or “common” name, but this name is pretty descriptive.
Circular menus are superior in usability to the typical rectangular slide-out menu. Why? Because, ideally, each menu item is the same distance from the initial pointer position as [...]