Our large-scale usability testing reveals that users expect the "Back" button to take them back to what they perceive to be their previous page, which often differs from site behavior.
What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
Standard.site backlinks for Margin annotations
I think standard.site makes backlinking easier than I originally realized.
Context Graph: It’s time to bring context back to the web
The largest button on a modern browser is the back button. Trips to the web are short. Enter a search, get a result, click back, then try…
About Browser Choice Allliance
The issue Microsoft’s deceptive tacticsimpede consumer choiceFor years, Microsoft has manipulated desktop browser choice, using deceptive tactics to push Edge onto users. Instead of competing on quality, it relies on forced resets, misleading prompts, and hidden settings to trap people into using its browser. Every time Microsoft forces, pushes or…
This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I’m also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don’t blame you. I don’
Future backcasting | Service Design Tools
From the future to the present to understand how our today's actions affect our tomorrow, and gain design inspirations.
StartAllBack to fix all Windows 11 deal-breaking UI issues
StartAllBack restores taskbar, start menu, context menus, explorer, sanity, style and order!
In Defense of Readers
As web designers, we concern ourselves with how users move from page to page, but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Learn the design techniques that create a mental space for …
Six ‘dark patterns’ used to manipulate you when shopping online
Online shopping offers unparalleled convenience, but also poses significant risks due to manipulative design practices known as ‘dark patterns’. These tactics subtly influence consumer behaviour, often leading to unintended purchases or compromising consumer privacy. Here are six dark patterns to watch out for next time you are shopping online.
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions | CSS-Tricks
This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into them to a little-known 4-second timeout.
Motherfucking Website
You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. Let me describe your perfect-ass website:
Reddit's disrespectful design
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes.
page-transitions.style — Bringing back Internet Explorer’s Page Transitions
Bringing back Internet Explorer’s Page Transitions thanks to the View Transition API
