Two related eyetracking studies in the excellent UXMatters magazine examined alternative approaches to the specific design of online forms. In general, three issues were considered:

— the position of the input field labels
— weight of the input label text
— the effect of dropdown menus in connection with the input field

Although somewhat informal, the studies and their results are very straightforward and intuitive. Full Article »

Photo “pools” are a great feature on Flickr. My new favorite pool is Innards. By turns tantalizing and grotesque… who would have thought that pictures of food’s gooey insides could be so fascinating?

I was reading the New York Post on the subway a couple of weeks ago and saw this small blurb about a new airfare website that not only tells you the lowest fare for a particular route, but also tells you if the fare is expected to go up or down in the coming weeks. Pretty cool, I thought. And then promptly left the newspaper on the subway and forgot the name of the site. Full Article »

Now that “Google-ing” has become a familiar and accepted mode of discovering information about someone on the sly, it should come as no surprise that all kinds of interesting tidbits can be found on the Internet about almost anyone. Even so, I confess that I was a little taken aback when I found this profile of myself on ZoomInfo.com. Full Article »

For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the next installment of Nick’s Digital Web column… wait no longer! It’s here!