Category Archives: Usability

UX of British Road Signs

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James May from Top Gear interviewed Margaret Calvert, the woman who designed the motorway (freeway) signs in the UK in the 1950s with her former Art Professor, Jock Kinneir. The two of them were responsible for almost every sign in the British highway code. She shares some interesting insight about the choice to use lower [...]
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Links should always be blue and underlined

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So you thought it would be clever to make your links pretty? Don’t do it! If you’re short on time, follow these simple rules: Unvisited links should be blue and underlined Visited links should be purple and underlined Active links should be red and underlined Searching for “links should be blue” turns up enough reading [...]
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