Posts Tagged ‘Design’
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Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are
- November 17th, 2011
- 23 Comments
Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? The storybook has fluidity of content and design figured out. It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author Maurice Sendak doesn’t ...
Read more...The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience
- November 15th, 2011
- 40 Comments
There are many ways to skin a redesign (I think that’s how the saying goes). On a philosophical level, I agree with those who advocate for realigning, not redesigning, but these are mere words when you’re staring a design problem in the face with no idea where to start. This ...
Read more...Redesigning The Country Selector
- November 10th, 2011
- 157 Comments
The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries. However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out ...
Read more...The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content
- October 24th, 2011
- 16 Comments
If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do ...
Read more...Design With Dissonance
- October 13th, 2011
- 110 Comments
You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never knew it was working on you — that’s how good it is. I’m here to shed light on this technique so ...
Read more...Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
- October 6th, 2011
- 15 Comments
In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple ...
Read more...Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors
- October 4th, 2011
- 27 Comments
It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typically run into on your website. Tracking and optimizing error messages will help you measurably improve your website’s user experience. We’ll walk through ...
Read more...Conversation Techniques For Designers
- September 29th, 2011
- 13 Comments
Designers are visually literate creatures. We use visuals to express our ideas, whether by building wireframes, sketching interfaces or pushing pixels. As a result, the majority of knowledge captured when we design a product is some form of “corporate memory”: a combination of assets and documentation. This creation of visual ...
Read more...How Metrics Can Make You A Better Designer
- September 20th, 2011
- 12 Comments
Metrics can be a touchy subject in design. When I say things like, “Designers should embrace A/B testing” or “Metrics can improve design,” I often hear concerns. Many designers tell me they feel that metrics displace creativity or create a paint-by-numbers scenario. They don’t want their training and intuition to ...
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