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Some think there is no page fold in web design. But it still matters a great deal what first appears to your users.

Google launches a new Labs product called Browser Size, allowing you to see what portion of your websites users are most likely to see first. We just think it’s a little half-baked.

Netflix understands the key to a successful customer satisfaction survey: keeping it simple. We look at how to incorporate some of their best practices in your next survey.

Facebook capitulates and makes some changes to the new design. Meanwhile, we discuss whether ignoring your users and staying headstrong makes any sense.

Design firm Squidspot has published a very cool and useful Periodic Table of Typefaces. They’re grouped roughly by “family” and “class” groupings, and ranked roughly based on their popularity from several different font ranks, though they’re loosely grouped in order to enforce the aesthetics of the table. This will be very useful for anyone trying [...]

Barnes & Noble requires a security answer of a certain length; a bit problematic when the answer to the question is shorter than their required minimum.

I posted about the Designing Interactive usability blog a few months back. Josh Walsh at D-I has compiled a nice list of 50 tips to a user-friendly website that you should definitely check out. I agree with almost all of them, like Clicking on the logo should take you to the home page—this has become [...]

Twitter helps me find a great user experience/user interface blog.

Stack Overflow is a great new programming Q&A web site meant to help users cut through the clutter and find the answers they need.

It’s surprising how effective a couple of great icons can be. They add polish to an application and really ties the room together, so to speak. And while some applications really need a consistent look-and-feel and thus, custom icons for every single course of action, a lot of the time, there’s no sense in reinventing the wheel. Especially when there are royalty-free, attractive icons available in convenient, aesthetically-homogenous packs. Mmm, icon packs.