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Need led site design
Great article by Jason Hobbs on the benefits of modeling user journeys as stories and designing for the actual need of that user. This approach goes deeper than just modelling around user profiles and allows IAs and designers to create the interface paths and functionality to support the user. Read more
17 Nov | Filed in Articles
Five Steps to Wayfinding
I'm reading Peter Morville's book, Ambient Findability, there's a quotation in the book from Jan Carpman of Carpman Grant Associates on Wayfinding that offers a useful check list for designers and usability specialists alike.
08 Nov | Filed in Articles
Keep the focus
Common mistakes in developing websites can be avoided if the client and the agency take the time to look further into why they are building a site and who for. Sounds simple enough but how many websites seem to have been built with little or no purpose behind them?
17 Oct | Filed in Articles
If you can't read it how can a search engine?
I like to think, or perhaps just hope, that despite the advances in technology the human brain still has a pretty good edge on the machines. If you want your website to show up will in a search engine why not build it so it's actually readable to a human - if you can't read it how do you expect a search engine too?
03 Oct | Filed in Articles
The 80:20 rule
If you are putting out a print or televised communication it's got to be right, once it's out there is no turning back, can you imagine the joy of spotting the typo as the national print campaign hits the streets?...
16 Sep | Filed in Articles
Soft launch or hard landing?
Google seems to like the Beta phase, Gmail has been a Beta for nearly a year now, and one begins to wonder when it will be out? But there’s a lesson in this....
15 Sep | Filed in Articles
Getting to the Root of the Change Challenge
An article written by Harry Parkes and published by eGov monitor on how eGovernment projects often fail due to the cultural and organisational challenges they represent than technical issues, and unless the organisation's management can deal with these first they...
23 Mar | Filed in Articles