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UX Win: Oxford University Press Password Creation

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Oxford University Press account registration form with clearly stated password requirements.

Who hasn’t been filled with frustration after creating a password for a new account, only to receive an error message your password isn’t acceptable?

Whether it’s a missing capital letter, number, or special character, or maybe your password isn’t long enough, a password error message is like having the door slammed in your face.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve received an error message that my password didn’t

  • Contain enough characters, with no indication of how many characters were needed
  • Include a number or capital letter
  • Have the “correct” special character, when I used an asterisk instead of parenthesis

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The designer can improve the user experience. Continue reading UX Win: Oxford University Press Password Creation

Don’t Make Abbreviations and Acronyms a Puzzle for Readers to Solve

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puzzle pieces of green grass, flowers, and blue sky strewn across a wooden table.

Originally published January 29, 2014

Have you ever visited a website page only to discover the first three paragraphs are filled with abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms that have no meaning for you?

What does MDH mean? Or WFH?

You’re not alone.

Not a day passes when I don’t read online content that includes abbreviations, with no explanation of what they mean.

For some websites, I research to try and figure out what they mean.

On other sites, I leave. Continue reading Don’t Make Abbreviations and Acronyms a Puzzle for Readers to Solve

My Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019

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With the end of the year, and the decade, fast approaching, I took at look back at the 200+ blog posts published in 2019 to identify my most popular posts.

Typically, the posts read most often are about WordPress, accessibility, and user experience, the main topics I write about.

But there’s always a few posts that my readers like that don’t fit into my main categories

And this year there are a few. Continue reading My Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019

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