7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing
Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. The worst nightmare of any programmer, designer, or business is to launch a broken website that drives away users and hurts reputations. It will only create more work, more headaches, and lost profits. Luckily, there are many great tools for web development testing. These tools test everything from CSS validation to website speed.
9 Strategies to Make Selling Your Ideas More Successful
A frequent question from people in all career phases is what a person can do to better sell a new idea, whether to a customer or inside an organization. As much as it would be nice to have a standard formula that always works, success really depends on the particulars of your situation. There are, however, a number of common strategies you can consider. Your best course of action is to be adept at using a variety of approaches to make your ideas more powerful and compelling. These nine strategies are a strong start to include in your idea-selling toolkit: 1.
Font Families: How to Decide Which Font Family to Use
One of the easiest ways to affect the design of a web page is with the fonts that you use. But many beginning web designers often go crazy changing fonts every couple words and experimenting with fonts that are virtually unreadable, just because they are “cool.” This article will help you find the font family that works best for your situation. Some Rules-of-Thumb Don’t use more than 3–four fonts on any one page.
UX is for Cheesemakers, Too
I’ve worked as a user experience designer for large corporations and agencies for a few years now, and have found a lot of inflated terminology creeping into my vocabulary—alarming anyone who hasn’t ‘gone corporate’. So when I was asked to help a small Orkney Island dairy farm to sell their product, I had cause to rethink: do most of the phrases and practices we use actually mean anything to anyone but us? I have no doubt that the service and UX design ethos works. How can you design something great for someone without knowing enough about what they actually want?
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
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What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
Advertisement Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience.
Eye tracking study reveals 12 website tactics
Eye tracking studies have revealed valuable information about how people read and interact with websites. One study, Eyetrack III, published a summary of their eye tracking results for news sites. While this is just one eye tracking study focused on a particular type of site, I think there are instructive nuggets here for any informational website. In no particular order, here are 12 results I found particularly interesting.
Logo Design Process of Top Graphic Designers
Posted on 01'08 Feb Posted on February 1, 2008 along with 212 JUST™ Creative Comments Want to know the secrets of how top graphic designers create their logos? This article will reveal exactly how top logo designers of today’s modern age create their logos. It will show the design process that these designers go through to get to their final logo design. Their Design Process:
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
Advertisement A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly.
Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources
Advertisement There are specialized terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design. For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms. Below is a guide to industry terms that should get you well on your way to understanding what web designers are talking about. In addition, we’ve provided some resources for each term to give you more in-depth information.
UI Design: Should We Really Be Afraid of the Uncanny Valley?
Realism in UI design is a hot topic right now. Every design blog worth anything is openly telling Apple that they are way off in their suggestion that iPad apps should mimic reality. Join us as we add some life to the debate by tackling some of these notions head on. We’ll go over when realism is effective and when it is destructive and how you can wield it in your own designs without ruining your interface. The iPad Sparks a Debate
