Tag Archives: usability

Books & Websites on Usability

By Amanda | Published: 07/08/2010

Welcome to final installment of the KISS Usability and Webcomics 101 series. Obviously I am not the final word in website usability, and in fact have a lot to learn myself. Here are the resources I used in the creation of this series as well as links to other valuable tools for evaluating your own [...]

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Act 1, Scene K?: Comic Archive

By Amanda | Published: 06/28/2010

Welcome to article five of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. Today, your comic archive. Another important part of any webcomic is the comic archive. At its heart, the comic archive is about granular access to past content. Unlike the comic navigation, which takes you through a webcomic one strip/page at a time, the [...]

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Scene Change: Comic Navigation

By Amanda | Published: 05/23/2010

Getting back on track a bit here. Welcome to article four of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. One of the great perks of an online comic is easy access to an archive of strips or pages that have come before. Readers can see your progression, refresh their memories about old story threads, and [...]

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Your Bare Stage: “Above the Fold” & Scrolling

By Amanda | Published: 05/10/2010

Welcome to the second article of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. A lot has been said about the concept of “Above the Fold” (the space visible when a website is loaded in a browser) and scrolling on websites. Conventional wisdom suggests that anything important to your website needs to take that place of [...]

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Welcome to the Stage: Webcomics & Expectations

By Amanda | Published: 05/06/2010

Welcome to the first article of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. So What Is Usability? Jakob Nielsen defines usability as “a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use”. It is all about how the site looks and behaves, as well as how easily new and experienced visitors can navigate [...]

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