This article I just found on SearchEngineLand.com goes into great detail about how Emotional Design and SEO can cohabitate, and it explores why websites that elicit emotion are effective but it gets lost in the woods and misses the point.…
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So excited to have been a part of WordCampNZ. If you’re curious, check out my Usability lightning talk presentation slides at the end of this post. Of the many presenters on day one (I couldn’t attend day two) some highlights…
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Is your great design making things worse? Usability testing can help you find out. First, you need to know what is usability so you can make most effective use of the data you collect. More on usability Jakob Nielsen, usability…
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I’ve started reading The Four Hour Workweek and while the title is overly catchy, there’s some truth there. I first heard about the book and the author Timothy Ferriss in The New Yorker magazine (thanks mom!) and the principles therein…
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WordPress is a powerful CMS and it’s easy to update with new features and functionality with the widget drag-and-drop interface. Clients have asked me how to quickly add widgets, Social Sharing Toolkit being a popular widget to add. This video…
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Thanks to Luke Wroblewski for his review on Multi-Device Layout Patterns for highlighting some great thinking in the Responsive Design space. The “Mostly Fluid” design, the first one Luke reviews, is what I used for the SugarBang Band website; try…
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I’m getting more into infographics. There’s so much data out there it’s difficult to make sense of it, but infographics certainly can help. I wanted to apply this to my CV to make it much more interesting; no more word…
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I love helping small companies grow. I Want a Napsac is a small company, sole owner Becky Crouch has a unique product with a unique name and I was more than happy to help her get her shopping cart online.…
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Mobile websites will replace mobile apps, according to Jakob Nielsen’s blog post today, but it’s not clear exactly when this will happen. Summary: Mobile apps currently have better usability than mobile sites, but forthcoming changes will eventually make a mobile…
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I play in a band called SugarBang and have designed a band poster for nearly every gig we’ve had since July 2011. Here’s some highlight samples from that series. (Click one image to review all in a lightbox) Tweet
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