Introduction

I've created a quick voluntary redesign of the XE Trade currency exchange service dashboard and Basic Trade (first screen only), out of sheer frustration when I first used their service a few months ago. When I started this post, I wasn't aware that XE Trade was in the process of updating their site. A notification on the login screen now tells me my account will be migrated to the new design at some point, but for the moment, the screenshots presented are exactly what I see. Information on how to preview the new UI is found in the P.S. below.

I recently presented Evaluating the User Interface and User Experience at the Boston Drupal 4 Design camp, held at MIT's Stata Center.

My presentation was for web designers, Drupal themers and anyone else involved in web projects, but my message is this: test and QA your own work, but don't QA your work by yourself; always get a second pair of eyes. My talk covered* the whys and hows of best practices and testing:

• Screen resolutions

In my Evaluating the User Interface and User Experience presentation at the Boston Design 4 Drupal camp, I touched on the need for designers to check the color contrast between foreground and background page elements, to ensure the color combination is usable and accessible to all.

In this blog post, I explain why all registration form submission error messages should be stated in plain language as a single step, not in an irritating succession.

Just now, I tried registering for BNET, after being prompted to login or register to read an article. Fine, whatever. I'll register.

The registration form is too long (while writing this, I went back and counted 18 fields. 18, really?

This book report originally appeared on the Team Rubber blog.

“Don’t Make Me Think!” is fun to say, and is rather fun to read too.