User Experience and URL design
We are all familiar with URLs: the string uniquely identifying the requested document. However, we don’t always consider they are more than that: URLs are user facing and should be considered important UI elements.
— Andreas Bonini
It’s worth considering that URL design is a part of user experience not just a programming concern.
User Experience through alerts and 404 page not found messages
It’s always refreshing to get a playful alert or error message when something goes wrong on a website you’re visiting. The other day I was browsing The Bold Italic and apparently needed to signup to use a feature. This is the message I got. It also made me want to sign up instead of leave the site. Win-win.
Want some more great examples of messages on websites? There’s a nice slideshow of 404 page not found messages on Mashable’s site.
