Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering

Author:Heydon Pickering
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Smashing eBooks
Publisher: Smashing Magazine GmbH
Published: 2016-09-12T16:00:00+00:00


“Leave creativity to the bad designers. This is not the place to do something different. If a convention exists, use it.” – Mark Boulton, “Icons, Symbols and a semiotic Web4”

Not everyone will see navigation when looking at something as pictorially reductive as three horizontal lines, and James Foster’s research5 ratifies this assumption. In A/B testing he found that the icon accompanied by the text “menu” was better understood.

He also found that menu buttons with a button-like shape (thanks to a bordered outline) were more apprehensible. In general, all the buttons in your interface should look like buttons, otherwise they lose perceived affordance6: the appearance that they can be used. Perceived affordance is a cornerstone of cognitive accessibility for interaction design.



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