Sunday, October 04, 2009
5 Ways To Be Incredibly Persuasive On The Web
A website that isn't persuasive will fail to convince users they should spend the time to perform what actions are required to convert. By StylizedWeb
How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website
One trend in web design that has been gaining popularity is the use of fixed position banners that remain at the bottom of the browser as visitors scroll vertically. By Steven Snell
15 Top Premium Template Websites For Web Designers
Compiled here are a list of 15 top premium template sites. On these premium websites, there are many templates listed covering WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Blogger, Flash and pure HTML and CSS templates. By WebDesignDev
Getting started with Wireframing
Jack Franklin, brings us a nice intro to wireframes. He explains what they are, how they can benefit you as a web designer and information on using grids and so much more.
A Guide to Website Promotion
David Silvester shares with us his 5 most important points to optimising a website.
A shorthand for designing UI flows
Flows are just as important to good interfaces as individual screens are. Customers don’t land on screens from out of nowhere. Specific sequences of actions lead customers through your app as they try to accomplish their tasks. By Ryan Singer
How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers
Imagine what it’s like opening a Photoshop file (PSD), only to find a jumble of poorly labeled layers and folders, plus a heap of unchecked hidden layers and other half-baked ideas that didn’t make it to fruition. By Josh Sears
Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen
In this article, the focus is on web usability and more specifically, on the views of world renowned usability expert, Jakob Nielsen. By Walter Apai
The History of Web Browsers
The tool that we use to browse our favorite websites has a (relatively) long and rich history. By Jacob Gube.
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
There are plenty of jQuery tricks and techniques out there, and the vast and powerful jQuery library can meet almost anyone’s JavaScript’ing needs. By Kayla Knight
Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes
Getting a design to click can take time. In many cases, it takes several rounds of revisions to even get to an effective starting point. What can you do to give yourself a better chance at designing something great sooner? By Zach Dunn
OptimalSort
Optimal Usability is a consulting company in New Zealand. They've run numerous information-architecture projects and got frustrated with the limitations of existing card-sorting tools. Check out OptimalSort.
Beyond Goals: Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up
Avinash Kaushik demonstrated that site search analytics (SSA) is a powerful tool you can use to assess customer intent quantitatively. In SSA, as with all flavors of web analytics (WA), you can work from the top-down; by starting with clear, measurable metrics based on your organization’s goals, you can benchmark and continually optimize the performance of your content and designs. By Lou Rosenfeld
Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis. In this article, you'll learn five ways to analyze your internal site-search data—data that’s easy to get, to understand, and to act on. By Avinash Kaushik
Testing Search for Relevancy and Precision
Despite the fact that site search often receives the most traffic, it’s also the place where the user experience designer bears the least influence. By Jonh Ferrara
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns
If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the design and layout of the search functionality for that website is considered carefully. By Louis Lazaris
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