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.…
Read more ›
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…
Read more ›
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…
Read more ›
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…
Read more ›
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…
Read more ›
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…
Read more ›
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
I was meeting with my peeps from Stylah last week and we were discussing iphone app opportunities, and more specifically the design process leading to project acceptance. I brought up that paper prototyping is a fast, economical way to show…
Read more ›
Fishpond in 2010 had a great catalog site, but not as good a customer site, so I rearranged some content but mainly added primary content to show top titles. I wanted to get the user/customer involved by showing them popular…
Read more ›
Ponoko is: A Personal Factory, where you can buy, sell & create custom products. Use the world’s easiest making system to create real products, on a short run for optimal cost. I love Ponoko’s concept. So when I went through…
Read more ›
WordPress Portfolios Mobile Usability Websites Design Blog Tech
