As many readers have recently pointed out, UX Digest has been flagged as “hosting malicious activities” causing browser warnings to appear when trying to access this site. This occurred as a result of a link injection attack whereby links to harmful sites (ones that do
host malicious activity) were inserted discretely into multiple posts. Furthermore, I discovered today that the @uxdigest twitter account has also been suspended (whether it’s related or not, I’m not sure yet) and that tweets with links to this site have also been prohibited.
A few words of reassurance to loyal readers:
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- All of the injected links have been removed and a fresh copy of the latest version of WordPress has been installed. I am also looking into further security measures to avoid such an attack in the future.
- I submitted the site to Google for review the day after the attack was made and it has since been cleared of all warnings. This means that the site should work properly in your browser now.
I apologize for the inconveniences that has come out of this. While I work on getting everything back to normal, I’d like to thank all the readers for their continued support of UX Digest. Stay put and hopefully we’ll be back to the regularly scheduled program soon!
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As part of helping your user navigate your site’s content, consider implementing breadcrumbs to compliment your primary navigation. Breadcrumbs are a series of links that show the hierarchical path to the current page a user is on and usually follows the convention of Parent > Child > … > Current Page. If you’re running a site that hosts many different pages that are categorized or organized in some kind of multilevel hierarchy, breadcrumbs will come in handy for the following reasons:
Pagination is found all over the web – from blogs to galleries to directories – and choosing the right style of pagination to use has important implications for how your users sort through your pool of information. Most opt to go with the most common convention of using numbers (Page 1, 2, 3). However, consider how annoying page numbers can be for somebody sorting through a directory of people. On which page do people starting with the letter ‘k’ begin?
Pathway pages are pages on your site that provides links and information about a collection of individual items (be they articles, products, pictures, etc). Pathway pages usually represent a category or group of items. For example, clicking Patio Furniture on a furniture website’s navigation will bring you to a pathway page that shows all the various types of patio furniture available. From this collection, a user will choose one to explore.
Bring clarity to the user’s experience by emphasizing actions that are more important than others. In the case of web forms, emphasizing the Save action over the Cancel/Back action helps the user find the button they’re looking for even quicker.
Paper prototypes were previously discussed as a great method to give ideas some shape quickly without having to worry about the technicalities of building mockups in Photoshop (you’ll do this eventually, but it’s a tiresome process when you’re just brainstorming). However, from reader comments and conversations with designers, it seems that many struggle with bringing sketches accurately into the Photoshop environment. To ease your struggles, follow these 4 tips:
For those building web apps, help the user’s transition from the desktop to the browser be more seamless and natural by mimicing the bahaviour of desktop apps on your web app. Code libraries have matured to allow for drag and drop and other advanced interactivity – take advantage of this to help deliver a more familiar and comfortable experience. 
We put a lot of emphasis on optimizing usability, user interactions and user interfaces. One area of the user experience that we often overlook testing on is information architecture. This is likely due to an absence of methods to test the effectiveness of information architecture. 
Websites come in many shapes, forms, designs, colours and layouts. But nearly every site has a common set of elements that subconsciously help the user to identify where they are, what they’re looking for, how to find it, and what to do next. Before you go any further, run your sites through this checklist to make sure you have all the basic elements: a site ID, a page name, a clear navigation, an option to search, an indication of the user’s current location, a tagline or site description, and a sense of the site’s page hierarchy.