What would happen if, out of nowhere, a company came out with a better MP3 player than Apple? Better storage, more functions, etc. for a better price? Well, it’s happened. Multiple times. Some competing MP3 players offer all of these superiorities, but have failed to achieve the prestige of the Apple iPod due to its [...]
Category Archives: User Experience Design
Better Content for a Better Experience
Following up on Gary’s post about the rigorous processes we go through in the course of a project and how project management is so important to this process, I wanted to touch on the subject of content and how important it is to design.
Content comes in many forms in the context of interface design. It [...]
The Importance of Wireframes
I read an article the other day about how important the wire-framing stage is to web development. It was really good timing because we are currently in this phase with one of our projects. This particular client is simply interested in seeing complete design compositions, skipping the wire-framing stage alltogether. So, I thought it would [...]
Web development blogs and search engine marketing blogs
I’m sure you’re already aware of the benefits of following web development and search engine marketing blogs over reading books on the industries—keeping up on breaking trends that haven’t made it into books yet, getting quick tips, gaining useful information quickly in the little chunks of time when you don’t have enough time to sit [...]
The New MyCarbonPledge.com
We recently launched one of our newest projects, MyCarbonPledge.com. My Carbon Pledge is an initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo to inform the public about the deleterious effects of carbon gas emissions on our ecosystems and wildlife habitats. The zoo’s efforts to date have mainly centered on the polar bear. As the projections show, two thirds [...]
Designing For Any Economy
I read this article in the opinion section of The New York Times the other day, and was very interested in the reactions from its readers. The article “Designing Through A Depression”, written by Alison Arieff, former editor in chief of Dwell, commanded a diverse range of comments that were either in agreement or overtly [...]
The Changes in Web Design
This evening I was thinking about the sites I use to work on since I starting working in the web world in 1996. I recalled how I use to design with wallpaper and tile the background of web sites, the scrolling text, the blink tag, paint shop pro graphics, gray, gray and more gray. [...]
Website Content Migration and Planning
Don’t underestimate the delivery of content in your website design projects.
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Mar 01/10
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