
A Smarter Way To Crumble Browser Cookies
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Clearing browser cookies is just one of those things you need to do every now and then but clearing them out in bulk can be a serious hassle, such as losing all of your saved login info. 🤬 Fortunately, there’s been a multi-step trick to use for clearing cookies on a per-URL basis but after years of consistency, the most recent Google Chrome update has changed the process (for the better). This is so useful, ...

Using The Fitts’s Law To Become A Better Manager
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This series is designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to daily content management tasks. Using Jon Yablonski’s collection at LawsOfUX.com that gathers best practices designers consider when building user interfaces, today’s installment will focus on Fitts’s Law: the time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. Fitts’s Law Per lawsofux.com/fittss-law, here’s how the Fitt’s Law is defined: The time ...

Stop Using Carousels And Sliders (The Wrong Way)
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Here at ArtsHacker, we’ve been warning arts admins against the practice of using sliders and carousels as a strategy to deliver mutually exclusive messages within a single space as far back as 2016. But just like a stubborn viral bug, the idea that carousels somehow function as a magical message delivery platform that delivers high conversion rates is difficult to shake. Fortunately, there’s a great article by front-end and User Experience (UX) professional Vitaly Friedman ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…