Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
Seriously: Just Build Applications and Interfaces that Work
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The problem So here I sit with a wonderful copy of CS4 running on my machine. I would love to scan something into my lovely version of Photoshop but unfortunately I can’t. Why is it, you ask, that I can’t scan something directly into Photoshop CS4? Well it seems that there is no official TWAIN [...]
Captcha Sucks But I’m Lazy So it’s Your Problem
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Hidden under the guise of making your life less troublesome by limiting spam on your site lurks a hurdle. It’s a hurdle that brings no end of frustration to users. A stabbing pain in the eye of users and what does it gain us but a few precious seconds of our days. The Issue We’ve [...]
Don’t Get Your Design’s Stuck on Language
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
I’ve been designing lots of e-commerce projects lately and a theme I’ve been finding in the designs is the buttons. Specifically the implication of buttons. We’ve all seen buttons on store that say “Add to Cart” or “Purchase” or whatever but does the simple word convey enough meaning? The Thoughts I am more and more [...]
What Type of Experience Do You Provide
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The Issue Working in the web industry means there is lots of news to follow. Tons of new developments all over that you are expected to keep track of. If you don’t keep track of the latest developments you can quite quickly find yourself using outdated techniques. I use Google Reader to organize all my [...]
Designing for Small Screens
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Netbooks are becoming very popular today because of the price and the true needs of 90% of the computing population. Most people are just checking their email, getting on Facebook, tweeting a bit and maybe wordprocessing. Most people don’t need anywhere near the horse power provided by fullsize laptops and desktops. Even for myself the [...]
Bad Forms Provide Bad Feedback
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Lately I’ve been looking at my site and coming up with a few pain points that I’d like to address with some small redesigns of the site. My footer contact form (and it’s ‘contact page’ counter part) are two items I would like to address. While they aren’t bad they could definitely use some refinement. [...]
5 Blogs for Web Designers to Follow
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Nettuts Nettuts is part of the Envato network. Nettuts covers all sorts of web design and development. Everything from WordPress to posts on Coldfusion. Articles are well written and frequent. A List Apart Published by Happy Cog A List Apart covers all topics dealing with web design. From usability to introductions to Ruby on Rails. [...]
What Services should a Web Designer Provide?
Monday, October 27th, 2008
It can be hard for small business owners to know exactly what services they should receive from a web designer. Of course they will design a site for you and publish it to the web but what exactly does that mean? Prep Work The first thing a good web designer should provide you with is [...]
The Daily News: Stolen designs, site conversion, and usability
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Let’s start today with an article from Freelance Switch (FSW) on Intellectual Property Resources. All of us designers get worried about our design work getting stolen. It seems that when this happens it’s hard to do much about it. The list provided by FSW gives you places to find your legal rights. Second up is [...]
The Daily News: GIMP, usability, and WordPress
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I decided that I would start rounding up interesting links each day and pass them along to my readers. I will still be publishing my own articles, but find that I don’t have as much time to get them out as often as I would like. So expect a semi-daily round up of cool links [...]
