Quick and effective article on Information and Visual design.
It’s no BFA, but gets the basics in place for anyone interested.
Category Archives: user interface
Usability testing – Does it apply to me?
What makes a good website? Is it the slickness of the look and feel, the features that the site offers, the interesting content or the ease of use?
The look and feel of your site maybe sensational, but what’s the point if it does not accomplish its purpose, which is to lead people to its content? The features that the site offers may be varied and interesting, but what if the user cannot get to them?
An established firm can probably afford the services of a usability consultant, but what about any of us regular people… what are the basic rules that we can follow to have a usable website? Continue reading
10 User Centered Design blogs you ought to read
Just thought I’d share my favorite UCD blogs with you. These are sites I read to keep in touch with the research on usability. They also make for very interesting reading.
Experience Dynamics: Frank spiller’s blog is something that every User experience professional should read. Frank has the happy knack to hitting the nail on the head with every post. Very practical info out there.
Boxes and Arrows: In the words of David Moore, Boxes and Arrows is an “Intelligent peer-written journal on information architecture and user-centered design. Lots of practical information as well as conceptual back-up”.
Seven87: With a unique outlook on usability, marketing and customer experience, Charlie Nichols presents usability in a business environment.
Webword: John S. Rhodes operates the WebWord Blog, providing Continue reading
Information Architecture simplified
Our user experience team in office decided to form a small group that promotes the awareness and usage of usability. With this focus, we got to work brainstorming on the best way to put usability, interaction design and information architecture, in laymen’s terms.
We decided the best way to do this would be to start a newsletter. For the articles, we came up with the theme of “Weave a story”, Continue reading
Hooked on design 