Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

The four little words that make designers cringe, “make the logo bigger.” We joke about it all the time, sometimes with elaborate internet pranks like the make my logo bigger cream. Yet we get this request fairly often (myself almost every time a produce a design). So why is there this disconnect between designers and companies where [...]

Nobody Gives a Shit About Your Logo

If your kick off meetings go anything like a majority of mine do, at some point or another the website owner begins to rattle off what “pages of content” they would like on the site. You may even encourage it by asking them (I know I did.) It seems like a logical step, essentially you need to get an idea of scope and one way to do so is to count up and outline what pages will be on the site.

Using strategy to define scope of content

After reading a few books on usability I had an “ah ha” moment. We spend so much time trying to make our websites and applications usable, yet so many of us (myself included) forget about functionality that is built into CSS that has the opportunity to enhance both the user experience and creativity of our [...]

:active, use it damn it…

The common approach to building a website is in my opinion, backwards. Meaning that we all have a tendancy to think about details and plan towards the big picture rather than think about the big picture and plan the details. While this may seem like a completely reasonable method of approach it actually short-sights more website projects.

Reverse Developing Website Strategy

Most web designers are at a natural disadvantage when it comes to ensuring that things are consistent. After all we tend to think creatively and artistically before we think organizationally. We have a tendency of getting tired of the same look by the time we get to page five or six and sometimes we [...]

Design with Consistency