UX, Usability Testing, & Website Coaching
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Ran across a few great design patterns resources this week that I want to share with everyone. They give me something to refer to when I’m doing wireframes, and sometimes I share them with clients when we’re trying to determine [...]
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Over the past month I’ve toiled away on a special project: a gallery of 51 simulated eye tracking heatmaps featuring the homepages of popular websites. The heatmaps cover a variety of industries including travel, consumer retail, media, government & politics, a catchall category of “other,” and finally a few categorized as “fun.” (More information about [...]
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I type wicked fast. My fingers sometimes bang away at the keys at a rate faster than I can think. But for all my mad typing skizzles, I’m a horrible speller. And for all my speed, I’m hampered by habitual use of the delete/backspace key. I’ve used it probably seven times in this sentence alone. [...]
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People want less information, they don’t want more information. They want it to be easier for them to use. Easier for them to get what they want. Easier for them to do what [...]
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Let’s say you’re new to Houston and you need a place to live. You’re in Texas, so you don’t want any old house – you want a ranch. A palatial homestead that’s guaranteed to be the envy of all your friends and family.
A plot of land secured, you head on over [...]
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There is, of course, a certain measure of humility required for designers to open themselves to incorporating the user experience into the design process and to engage in usability testing. For so many years the predominant culture in these groups was that web design was a “creative” art, and as in the manner of [...]
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