Tweet When planning a design for a website, we think about the target audience, however there’s typically more than one audience we’re communicating to. Many websites, particularly the homepage, must cater to a number of different visitors who have arrived for various reasons. Visitors can include potential customers, current customers, investors, media, prospective employees, and [...]
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Tweet There’s a lot that goes into making your app or web-based service successful, however I want to take a closer look at some key takeaways from successful apps that you can apply to your business. So what makes some of the most well-known apps successful and what can we learn from them? A Great [...]
Tweet I’ve been doing some research lately on various graphing packages that are available and thought I’d share a few of the top choices I’ve found. Depending on your needs there are options for PHP, .NET, Adobe Flex, Adobe Air, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, or Ruby on Rails. Here are of some the best I’ve found: [...]
Tweet Here are our top picks for finding design related content and great places to share yours. If you’re just starting your design related blog or have been writing for a while and looking for great places to post your content and grow readership for your blog, definitely check out these options. DesignNewz Tripwire Magazine [...]
Tweet Here’s a roundup of our top ten favorite design-related posts for the past week. Enjoy! Waterscape Photography: Beautiful Waterscapes and Tricks of the Trade Nature provides us with a never-ending supply of inspiration, look no further than the coast for an array of majestic scenery. This article focuses on the point where land and [...]
Tweet Here I’ve included a number of resources for usability best practices, inspiration, and design patterns for the web. There are many excellent sites and blogs on user experience and usability. If there are any that you read regularly and not included below, please share within the comments. Enjoy! UXBooth The UX Booth is a [...]
Tweet There were a number of great posts this week from 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design to setting up Automatic Thumbnails Without Using Custom Field. Here’s a list of our favorites. Enjoy! 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be [...]
Tweet Right-brain versus left-brain or designers versus accountants, both refer to two different ways of viewing the world. I call them Crunchers (as in ‘number crunchers’) and Creatives and there’s a healthy tension among these two camps in almost all organizations, but what about the influence they each have on the growth of a company? [...]
