Are you annoying your repeat users? yesterday
What are you doing to make existing users feel special? For that matter what are you doing just to make their lives a little bit easier?
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Sites are like billboards not books 2 days ago
Imagine for a moment that you are launching a national wide billboard campaign to promote your product or service. Normally you would go to an advertising agency to do this. One that has experience in bring design and copywriting together, to slam home a powerful marketing message. Websites have …
The New UX Skill 2 days ago
With “Client Centric Web Design” soon to be released the subject matter is at the fore of my mind. As a result I am seeing the themes covered in the book popping up everywhere. The latest example of this is a .net opinion piece I have just read on the new UX skills. In it [...]
Emotional about mobile 5 days ago
Smartphones are emotive devices. They are extensions of ourselves. Your online services need to play nicely with them or you will offend me.
Watch out for the what if! 6 days ago
Its easy when working on a website to get bogged down by the “what ifs.” Take for example the “estimated reading time” message at the start of this post. What if somebody doesn’t speak English as their first language? What if somebody has dyslexia? These people will …
When is the app bubble going to burst? last week
There is consistently talk of a bubble in app development. A .com boom style gold rush to cash in on the rise of the app. The question is when will this burst and where will we be when the dust settles? In this short article for in-traction.com I look at it from the point of view …
Where is all the video? last week
Why aren’t we seeing more video on content heavy websites? A lot of the websites we work on at Headscape are content heavy. However, despite the ability of video to convey large amounts of information quickly and in an engaging manner, we still see slow uptake on its use. Low quality video can …
I’m angry and frustrated last week
I am sorry to say that my next book is born out of a frustration and anger at the prevailing attitude I see in the web design community.
Time to improve your print stylesheet last week
I have set myself a challenge this week and I want you to join me. I am going to improve my print stylesheet. I have done a fair amount of work on it already but there is still improvements that can be made. What about yours? In today’s audio tip I talk a little about [...]
Icons as fonts 2 weeks ago
Two of the biggest changes on the web recently are custom fonts (thanks to font-face) and responsive design. One of the problems with responsive design are resizable images and by extension icons. When the interface adapts and changes size this can make displaying crisply rendered icons …
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