Tri-State Checkboxes — GUI Design
Don’t ever use a standard display to represent a new idea (e.g. grayed always means disabled). Don’t use a control…
CAPITAL Idea — GUI Design
Your capitalization shouldn’t make users lol. Be deliberate about the capitalization in your GUI and be consistent throughout. If your…
Look and Feel — GUI Design
Look and Feel are two different things and should be designed independently. The Feel has the biggest affect on the…
Tooltips — GUI Design
Tooltips that simply repeat the text that is already being displayed are useless. Tooltips should provide information about how to…
WordPress® — GUI Review
Throughout the GUI, the designers realized that what they thought might be most important is not necessarily going to be…
508 Compliance — GUI Design
Having menus hidden under an icon is a great way to avoid clutter, but the icon should be in the…
Lost in Space — GUI Design
Make sure text fields have a width that is appropriate for the acceptable contents (neither too wide nor too narrow).…
Vanishing Options — GUI Design
If it’s not blatantly obvious why something is disabled, then give the user an explanation right in the GUI. Never…
Hidden in Plain Sight — GUI Design
Tab controls should be obvious and not hidden inside an apparent menu bar. Drop-down menus should be distinct from the…
Icons or Text? — GUI Design
The default should be to use icons combined with labels, allowing users to choose either or both as they become…