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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by diziet on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:36AM (#2138279)
Two easy ways to improve user experience. As a user: Use noscript As a designer: Keep your content above the fold, and your logos not gigantic. There's no reason I should look down 480~ pixels just to see the first line of the content.
Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by redthrowaway on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:41AM (#2138287)
NoScript is terrible for UX. Every time I wanted to watch a video, or see a slideshow, etc, I had to right click, temporarily allow scripts (or whitelist domain)... It just made browsing tedious. I find AdBlock to be more than adequate, for most sites. The Chrome version isn't quite as good as the FF version, but it should improve.
Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by rkudeshi on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:22AM (#2138448)
If you enable the option to always temporarily whitelist the domain you are currently on, it gets a lot better.

That way, when you are on example.com, it will still load any scripts hosted on example.com, but not Facebook/Twitter/ad/other widgets.

Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by redthrowaway on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:31AM (#2138461)
Is this a new feature? I don't remember having that option when I played with it 2-3 years ago.
Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by alexqgb on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:42AM (#2138292)
+1 for pointing out the inverse relationship between logo size and usability.
Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by goldins on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @09:05AM (#2139035)
I don't think the whole "above the fold" mentality is as relevant now as it was a few years ago. Monitors are bigger, and people are used to scrolling up and down a page. Sure, there should be something above the fold to entice the user to scroll, but to keep your content above the fold is just asking for a cluttered design.

You're scrolling now, aren't you? :-)

See http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/

Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by Neputys on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:40AM (#2138285)
Have you heard the "make my logo bigger pills" joke about marketers?
Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by cubicle67 on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:05AM (#2138344)