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If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 15, 2010
One of the first things you’ll learn when diving into a self-taught course on usability is the hugely popular Fitts’s Law. In a nutshell, Fitts’s Law tries to predict the time needed to move to a “target area” (usually a link, menu, button, or form element) as a function of the distance to the [...]
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Don’t Let the Door Hit You Onunload and Onbeforeunload

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 22, 2008
Many people attempt a last ditch effort to save page state in the browser by using the onunload or onbeforeunload events. This has been studied at great length by Patrick Hunlock, who uses the perhaps now common knowledge of using a Synchronous Ajax call to perform the page state save. Another use for the [...]
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