The top big black horizontal scrollbar provides a useful navigation throughout Pentagram‘s website and portfolio.

A segmented button allows you to feature two or more different actions using only one GUI element. In this example, active areas are colored while the price information, though it’s framed in a major graphic element, is just selectable text .

According to the Gestalt psychology’s Law of proximity, things that are near to each other either physycally (in this case visually) or chronologically, are likely to be perceived as related. So, if your header accomodates different kinds of link (e.g: some for the website navigations and some for the user’s account management) it’s a good [...]

A nice numeral menu/pagination displayed on 52 weeks of UX, a tumblr collecting Joshua Porter‘s thoughts about design and usability.

Even if mega drop-down menu perform better than the regular ones (at least according to this Jackob Nielsen’s study), I still don’t love them. Except for cases like this, when, huge panels makes me understand at a glance the whole website’s taxonomy, sparing me the time of browsing endlessly from a level to another and [...]

Sometimes the previous/next alternative may oversimplify navigation but if Ux Hero choose it for his own blog who I am to disagree? Moreover, I’m quite fed up with infinite numerical pagination.

A nice error page, clearly shaped as a navigation flow chart, from Konigi‘s, a reference website for what concerns user experience and interface design.

When it comes to grid-based web design, one of the most charming and peculiar grid structure example that occurrs to me it’s UX Magazine‘s layout. The square-based structural balance of this layout it’s quite obvious but it could have turned out annoying and boring if designers didn’t conceive some visual tricks that, breaking the grid [...]

On my previous job, when I was working for a big web portal, we got used to look up to Yahoo’s interaction design as one of the most insightful example of dealing with users’ experience on a large scale audience. When you’re not able to relate to a definite target (ok, I too hate this [...]