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Have you ever found yourself spotting shapes in the clouds? That is because people are hard-wired to recognize patterns, even when there are none. It’s the same reason that we often think we know where to click when first experiencing a website—and get frustrated if things aren’t where we think they should be. Choosing the right user interface design pattern is crucial to taking advantage of this natural pattern-spotting, and this course will teach you how to do just that.
User interface design patterns are the means by which structure and order can gel together to make powerful user experiences. Structure and order are also a user’s best friends, and along with the fact that old habits die hard (especially on the web), it is essential that designers consider user interfaces very carefully before they set the final design in stone. Products should consist of such good interactions that users don’t even notice how they got from point A to point B. Failing to do so can lead to user interfaces that are difficult or confusing to navigate, requiring the user to spend an unreasonable amount of time decoding the display—and just a few seconds too many can be “unreasonable”—rather than fulfilling their original aims and objectives.
While the focus is on the practical application of user interface design patterns, by the end of the course you will also be familiar with current terminology used in the design of user interfaces, and many of the key concepts under discussion. This should help put you ahead of the pack and furnish you with the knowledge necessary to advance beyond your competitors.
So, if you are struggling to decide which user interface design pattern is best, and how you can achieve maximum usability through implementing it, then step no further. This course will equip you with the knowledge necessary to select the most appropriate display methods and solve common design problems affecting existing user interfaces.
What are Tabs?
The tabbed user interface design pattern takes its inspiration from file folders and address books, which enable users to jump to their target section quickly. There are two distinct types of tabs: navigation tabs offer small clickable labels that open content in a new webpage, whereas module tabs present information on the same page.
Tabs have long been used to show alternative views of the same group of informationtabsin software. Known as “module tabs”, these are still used today in web sites. For instance, airline companies such as Ryanair, easyJet and AirMalta use module tabs to enable the user to switch between bookings for flights, hotels and car hire.
With the emergence of web sites, tabs started being used for navigation purposes. This technique was first popularized by Amazon in 1998. Although Amazon eventually dropped tab navigation in 2007, there are some excellent and creative uses of tabs in web sites for both modules as well as navigation. In this post I will be providing a list of 14 guidelines that you can use as a checklist to ensure that tabs on your web site are usable.
Why tabs are good for usability
When used and implemented correctly, tabs are considered to be an excellent User Interface (UI) control that contribute towards improving usability. This is because tabs:
Are excellent metaphors: In UI terminology, metaphors are ideas or objects that are used to facilitate the familiarity between the user and the application. The use of tabs in the UI is an excellent metaphor since they look like real-world tab dividers in files or tabs on folders in a file drawer. Thus, it is more intuitive for users to know that these tabs are dividing content into sections and just like in real life, reaching for the tab (emulated on the web by clicking on a tab) will show the respective content.
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