Eating Your Own Dogfood >
Less than a year since our last site overhaul, we began another site redesign late this past winter. This is not because our last site wasn’t good— it was. But More…
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Registration Forms for Web Apps – Dedicated Page or Modal Treatment? >
In meeting with a Web App UI client this afternoon, we were asked the following question: Is it better to have your Registration/Join page: Exist on a dedicated page with More…
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The Menu of the Future >
I just got back from a trip to Argentina, where culturally people spend a lot more time dining than we typically do in the states. Since I was on vacation, More…
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How Serving Jury Duty Made Me a Better UI Designer >
Everyone dreads jury duty. It is an inconvenience to everyone’s work schedule, and rarely do people enjoy sitting in a room waiting. I was summoned today for the first time, More…
Why Prototyping Is a Better Way to Design Web Apps >
I was on the phone to a client yesterday talking about the way the mobile application development industry is changing. Traditionally the applications are cobbled together in a horizontal way More…
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Free-Form Style Forms Increase Conversion >
We just found an awesome post from www.LukeW.com about how redesigning forms to read like conversational paragraphs can boost conversions up to 40%: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 Can’t wait to give it a More…
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Best practice ideas in UI and icon design >
Lukas Mathis has written a short but insightful piece on the idea that simple designs for icons and action related UI makes more sense. His conclusions also reminded me of More…
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How to use the Flutter Custom Fields Options List to crop and manipulate images >
Flutter, the popular WordPress plugin, is a very simple way to add a lot of flexible extra functionality to posts and pages. It’s a gold mine of usefulness that allows More…
What Sherlock Holmes teaches us about UI design >
Yesterday I watched Sherlock Holmes and loved it. The movie was true to Sir Conan Doyle’s dark and dirty London without all the typical Hollywood crap we’ve grown accustomed to. More…
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UI Design as a Differentiator >
Great article on how good UI and UX design leverages the overall customer experience to offset marketing costs. By focusing on the quality of design and user experience and improving More…
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AB Testing with Google Website Optimizer and WordPress >
Sample Google Website Optimizer Report Everyone knows that good design turns browsers into buyers, but it’s sometimes difficult to measure what designs are working better than others. Combining the power More…
Prototyping: Simple is Hard >
Designing web application prototypes seems like a simple idea. Grab some markers and a sheet of paper and you’re designing a new application in seconds. The problem is it’s never More…
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