Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’
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You Design It, They Do It
- May 4th, 2012
- 22 Comments
What if someone came to you and said, “I’ve designed this great website, but people don’t stay on it. Why?” How would you respond? Would you ask them whether they have done extensive A/B testing? Would you recommend testing the usability of the website? People like to test a number of ...
Read more...Redesigning With Personality
- March 27th, 2012
- 17 Comments
We are very happy to present a sample chapter by Aarron Walter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample is ...
Read more...Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites
- March 26th, 2012
- 32 Comments
When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation. In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category ...
Read more...Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)
- March 8th, 2012
- 54 Comments
In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream. Responsive Web design is more ...
Read more...Japanese, A Beautifully Complex Writing System
- March 5th, 2012
- 59 Comments
As a Japanese person living in Europe, I’m sometimes asked: “Japanese is a difficult language, isn’t it?”. Those asking are often surprised when my answer is a simple: “No, actually, it’s not.”. While it is true (at least to many Westerners) that Japanese is an exotic language, when compared to learning ...
Read more...A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites
- February 24th, 2012
- 31 Comments
As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable. A ...
Read more...Easier Is Better Than Better
- November 28th, 2011
- 101 Comments
In his book, The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz comes to an interesting conclusion involving human choice. “People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.” Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the ...
Read more...Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are
- November 17th, 2011
- 0 Comments
Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? The storybook has fluidity of content and design figured out. It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author Maurice Sendak doesn’t ...
Read more...The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content
- October 24th, 2011
- 0 Comments
If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do ...
Read more...The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design
- October 3rd, 2011
- 45 Comments
Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It increases the effectiveness of websites and is a quality tool in the arsenal of designers. It ...
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