If you weren’t able to attend WordCamp Chicago this past weekend you can still view my presentation on what check for before launching or revamping a website. These simple checklists will help you ensure that what you’re doing is in line with what your users – whether they’re customers, readers, conversation participants or anything else [...]
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At lunch today with my wife she told me an interesting story about helping a potential client with online banking (she works for a bank). While in this meeting, my wife was explaining the benefits of online banking (the person was not using it) and when the client wanted to see what it was [...]
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Successful experience design is invisible⦠which can create a problem for developing your portfolio. ~ Jared Spool at Web Design World today
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Throughout the development process one item that can be an interesting struggle is icons. On the surface, icons can save space and can liven up an otherwise drab page. Well, that is, icons can save space if you don’t label them in some way. The problem then becomes if you don’t label an [...]
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Let me rephrase that, Adobe’s Tools for creating Flash SUCK! Flash is a powerful and useful tool, very often mis-used, but a useful none the less. From what I’ve seen so far, the Actionscript language is pretty good. It gives you the flexibility to do almost anything you want with flash and [...]
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When I see titles such as “Top 10 Things Not…” or “5 Reasons Why You…” it usually catches my interest. I recently came across the article 19 Things Not to Do When Building a Web Site and I have to say that they’re dead on. I’m also happy to say that these are [...]
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UX Matters posted an article back in December about Agile Software Development vs. User Centered Design and whether they can co-exist in a project. The core of our development process around here is and will be user-centered design. Web sites are nothing without users so we want to make sure it’s easy for [...]
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