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Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix by Amy Hoy
Design Biz - 79 Comments
November 20th, 2007
The phrase “user experience” is quite a mouthful. Even the acronym is kinda scary: UX, UXP, or sometimes UXD (D for “design”). It pretty much looks and sounds like the noise you make when you puke. Paradoxically, this means that “user experience” actually has a negative user experience — because, you see, the very premise […]
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Tips for presenting your work by Dennis Eusebio
Design Biz - 22 Comments
November 13th, 2007
You’ve put in the long hours day and night for the last week and it’s time to finally present your concepts to the client. Your concepts are solid and you feel it’s exactly what the client and, more importantly, the audience needs. Don’t let a bad presentation take your beautiful work and turn it into […]
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Getting a startup right the second time by David Gorman
Design Web Apps - 63 Comments
September 25th, 2007
The road to success is hard. We all know this, but still hope for the quick success of a Twitter instead of the starting and stopping of a flickr (started as a game). ImThere is a startup that started and stopped, and David Gorman documents their eventual success.
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Read more … about progressive disclosure by Robert Hoekman Jr
Design Web Apps - 13 Comments
September 18th, 2007
A newspaper can’t cram every story in on A1. You can’t cram in every detail on the homepage. That’s where a method called “progressive disclosure” comes in and our guest advisor Robert Hoekman Jr. goes into all the details — inside, of course.
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Webtogs: Diary of an eCommerce start-up by James Balmain
Design Biz - 23 Comments
August 28th, 2007
For the last 11 months my team and I have been working on a new ecommerce site, webtogs.co.uk, selling outdoor and adventure sports gear. Sep ‘06 turned into month 1 for our new start-up.
It starts with a blank screen
How well a site converts its traffic to sales is the most important aspect of a good […]
