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User task analysis: does this starting page work for you?

The Washington Secretary of State has an application called MyVote which is a portal for registered voters to update address, find elected officials, and so forth. Scenario: You’ve just moved to Washington and want to register to vote. You’ve been given the MyVote link as your starting place to register to vote. You’ve not decided […]

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Crafting effective error messages (cute is not enough!)

I encountered this 404 page after following a link in a blog post (only a day old). Either the referring URL was wrong or the backend (not WordPress, apparently) didn’t have the information on the new URL in its database.

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Design

Dear LinkedIn: UI help desperately needed

Don’t ever get behind on your LinkedIn connection requests — erh, invitations — because the interface will rudely shove you away, screaming. (You’ll be screaming. Not your computer.) And it would take only a teeny tiny change to reduce a significant portion of the friction. The scenario You’ve received an invitation to connect from someone […]