Thursday, December 29, 2011
When you are creating a new site, one of your first steps is to create an interface that is both presentable and useable. But testing for usability takes time and – frankly – money. Which isn’t easy to come by when you are first starting up a website, especially if your company deals largely in [...]
product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]
Myths about Low Vision: Nose to the Page is an important post from Knowbility. The Difference Between Web Site Usability and Accessibility. Succinct and useful. Adaptive & Mobile Design with CSS3 Media Queries. Nice demo and downloadable example files. Speaking of media queries, here’s a very good tutorial by Steven Bradley: How to Use Media [...]
Don’t think I’ve linked to Web Standards Sherpa before – how remiss of me. But here’s a good post to remedy that oversight. Designing for Content: Creating a Message Hierarchy. HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA landmark support from the Paciello Group Blog show test results for landmark roles. Are You Going To Adopt Google+ for Professional [...]
One Page Apps I Actually Use from CSS Tricks has several very helpful links for designers. You may want to keep them handy. I haven’t received an invite to Google+ yet, but I’m looking at other people’s reports on it. It’s so similar to Facebook, even though people are comparing it with Google WAVE. If [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I kind of hate infographics. Seems like everybody who owns a copy of Photoshop thinks they should make one and tweet about it. I’ve looked at a lot of them lately. Is it a fad? Of the ones I’ve seen, maybe 3 were effective and the rest were impossible. Translated, here’s what I mean by [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I’m going to tell you a little story and then I’m going to give you a quiz. A few days ago, I posted a guest article by Lior called Increase your SEO Knowledge in 2011: Must Read Blogs. Lior sent me the post pasted into an email. I use Microsoft Entourage (a Mac mail program [...]
25 reasons why I’ll leave your site in 10 seconds. Great read for the newbie students who are trying too much too soon. Warning to local TV: unbundled distribution is upon you is at Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog. This seems like a huge trend to me. In fact, I’ll be posting my own article about [...]
Monday, November 29, 2010
Creating a well-organized, structured navigation system is essential for any website. Without an understandable, pragmatic system for instructing visitors what your website has to offer, and how they can reach it, your site is at a serious disadvantage. Establishing a sensible navigational path is not difficult if you remember to pre-plan and take the necessary [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fashionable Web Forms: Traps and Tips has UX advice from a pro on how to make forms work better. Why Wired Loves the Ladies. That slide of the last 32 Wired covers tells the story with such impact no other comment is necessary. Find Websites that are Copying Your Content. Great tips for tools. Mozilla [...]
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