Posts Tagged ‘Design’
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The S.M.A.R.T. User Experience Strategy
- September 13th, 2011
- 31 Comments
I was a competitive road cyclist for four years. My bikes were good, but my race results were much less impressive. Instead of medals and trophies, all I had to show for it were shaved legs and a farmer’s tan. Regardless, on the road to becoming a competitive athlete, I ...
Read more...Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers
- September 9th, 2011
- 38 Comments
Anyone designing Web-based properties today requires a basic understanding of interaction design principles. Even if your training is not formally in human-computer interaction, user experience design or human factors, knowing the fundamentals of these disciplines greatly enhances the chances of your design’s success. This is especially true for visual designers. ...
Read more...Designing Global Applications For Children
- September 2nd, 2011
- 11 Comments
The entire process of designing digital applications comes with many challenges and decisions. For the majority of projects, you will be designing in somewhat familiar territory. But what happens when you have to design something to be used by hundreds of children around the world? How do you accommodate your ...
Read more...Getting Started With Defensive Web Design
- May 27th, 2011
- 48 Comments
Nothing ruins a great website UI like people using it. At least, it often feels that way. You put in days or weeks building the interface, only to find that a vast majority of visitors abandon it partway through the process that it supports. Most of the time, visitors leave ...
Read more...Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins
- May 5th, 2011
- 154 Comments
There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms simpler and more efficient to fill out. In this article, we’d like to present a couple of new ideas that might ...
Read more...Examining The Design Process: Clichés and Idea Generation
- February 21st, 2011
- 84 Comments
Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an uncle at Thanksgiving about my work, I’m reminded that, in most people’s minds, the ...
Read more...The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer
- October 14th, 2010
- 32 Comments
We invest time, money and effort into understanding our audience, and the movement toward a more socially networked Web has made us realize the power that visitors have over how our designs are engineered; and we try to meet their ever-growing needs. Community is integral to the evolution and functioning ...
Read more...A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable
- August 23rd, 2010
- 71 Comments
There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a few simple examples. Because the Web design industry is now flooded with a lot of raw talent, ...
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