Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design

Published: Tuesday 27th April 2010

 • Tags: jQuery, Usability

We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user experience and usability of our jQuery events?

Below, we’ll briefly discuss ways to look at the code and the result of our interactive designs and, thus, improve their usability. Most if not all jQuery is fired through events from the user, whether it’s loading new content, posting forms or simply modifying the presentation of an item. Such events are fired through a click from the user.

Read my article on how to make your interactive design and jQuery more usable at Smashing Magazine.