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Content Templates to the Rescue

By James ⋅ July 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Content Templates to the Rescue: “As an industry, we’ve learned to plan our sites to achieve business goals and meet human needs while shipping on time and delivering compelling user experiences. Alas, despite all the sweat we pour into strategy sessions and GANTT charts, we still have to coax content out of our subject matter [...]

When good browsers go bad

By James ⋅ April 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When good browsers go bad—and they all do | Web Publishing | Creative Notes | Macworld: “those who lived through the browser wars of the ’90s might think that hell has frozen over, were it not for one small problem: Users still experience plenty of problems on the Web. “ (Via MacWorld.)

Refining Data Tables :: UXmatters

By James ⋅ April 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Refining Data Tables :: UXmatters: “After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial role [...]

How the Web Made Me a Better Copywriter – by Cathy Curtis

By James ⋅ April 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

How the Web Made Me a Better Copywriter — by Cathy Curtis: Everybody’s a scanner It’s one thing if you’re writing a blog with a devoted following. But a corporate, nonprofit or e-commerce website doesn’t come with a readymade group of friends. If users can’t immediately find what they’re looking for, they move on. Web [...]

Crowdsourcing – a new entrant in the design ecosystem

By James ⋅ March 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Wired takes a look crowdsourcing: The demand for low-end design has ballooned in recent years alongside the profusion of start-ups and small businesses. Conveniently enough, so has the supply of what we might call “low-end designers” (amateurs, recent grads and the like). According to Forbes there are 80,000 freelance designers in the United States alone. [...]

Securing PHP Web Applications

By James ⋅ March 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Securing PHP Web Applications: “Michael J. Ross writes ‘The owners and the developers of typical Web sites face a quandary, one often unrecognized and unstated: They generally want their sites’ contents and functionality to be accessible to everyone on the Internet, yet the more they open those sites, the more vulnerable they can become to [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

By James ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Web layout focusing on cutting edge CSS. A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids Fluid Grids by ETHAN MARCOTTE Early last year, I worked on the redesign of a rather content-heavy website. Design requirements were fairly light: the client asked us to keep the organization’s existing logo and to improve the dense typography and increase legibility. [...]

Give Up and Use Tables

By James ⋅ February 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Give Up and Use Tables: If you’re wasting time fighting with CSS — and we know you are — we’ve got just the tool you need. (Via Daring Fireball.)

Do You Really Want To Sell Something Now?

By James ⋅ February 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Between the customer and a purchase is your ecommerce site. Here’s the tale of how providing a more direct path between the customer and their purchase increased online sales for a $25B online retailer by $300M per year. The “more direct path” was a single button with the following language: “You do not need to [...]

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