Consider the User Experience & Usability of Your Website – from the Mom 2.0 Summit

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!

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UX Patterns Resources

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… read more

This Week in UX: October 26-30, 2009

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… read more

Failing Gracefully: Four Solutions for Wrong Registration Email Addresses on Alltop.com

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… read more

It’s about the user experience.

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

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Angela Schmeidel Randall, UX Consultant is now Normal Modes LLC

Great news! I’ve formed Normal Modes LLC – The User Experience Company.

In the next couple of weeks I’ll be moving a great deal of the current site over to the new company website, normalmodes.com. I’ll also have an announcement about an exciting new service that’ll help organizations of… read more