UX, Usability Testing, & Website Coaching
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Normal Modes is growing, and I’m yet another new employee. I’m Libby, the new user experience designer, and I’m old-school.
I’ve been working in web design since I graduated in December ‘95. Back then, my university offered only HTML and CGI classes, which I shunned. I was an English major! Why the heck would I need [...]
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Last week I had the honor to be a speaker at the Mom 2.0 Summit. The conference was fabulous – great ladies who were kind and supportive of each other, nice panels where everyone shared experiences, and the hotel – Wow! Four Seasons all the way!
Here’s the slideshow we used to get the [...]
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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 how to display content that’ll be most pleasing to their audience. Please enjoy!
From the “Designing [...]
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For a great showcase of girl power web talent, check out 40 Amazing Female Role Models for Web Designers. Not only will you learn about some fabulous artists, you can also get inspiration for your own designs.
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From necessity comes motivation. Mark Owen spent 10 uncomfortable years in a wheelchair before teaming up with furniture designer [...]
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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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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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