While such approaches may be perfectly feasible (and we do not wish to discourage creative use of technology), it is always worth considering whether the target population has access to the software required. People can only participate in a study if they have the appropriate software installed and configured, so an effective approach is to [...]
Which is more frustrating to people in search of help with style: having to flip through pages of badly organized and cryptically indexed rules, or having to scroll through long screenfuls of unsearchable items with many irrelevant links to get to the point? It’s a wash. Very few people read style guides for fun.
What you’ll [...]
You have to learn a bit about online design in order to write design-style guidance for your Web documents (or to edit them intelligently), as well as to help publish user-friendly online style guides.
According to the Yale Style Guide, readers see pages and screens first as a blur of shapes, text blocks, and color. Then [...]
