Card sorting
Card sorting is a simple technique in user experience design where a group of subject experts or "users", however inexperienced with design, are guided to generate a category tree or folksonomy. It is a useful approach for designing information architecture, workflows, menu structure, or web site navigation paths. Card sorting has a characteristically low-tech approach. The concepts are first identified and written onto simple index cards or Post-it notes. Groups may either be organised as collaborative groups (focus groups) or as repeated individual sorts. A card sort is commonly undertaken when designing a navigation structure for an environment that offers an interesting variety of content and functionality, such as a web site.[3][4][5][6] In that context, the items to be organized are those that are significant in the environment. Basic method[edit] To perform a card sort: Open card sorting[edit] In an open card sort, participants create their own names for the categories.
17 Major Main Menu Mistakes
Did you know that your main menu is a part of your marketing? It’s true. What your menu says gives your visitors a small indication of what your website is about and whether or not they are in the right place. After 10 years in the business, I still see the same mistakes over and over again. 1. When Steve Jobs said “Be Different”, he didn’t mean in your main menu. 2. Your blog is a way for people to find your website. 3. Remember, your main menu helps visitors understand your website. 4. Hick’s Law says that the more choices you give someone, the longer it will take them to make a decision. 5. Your content should be your super star, not your menu. 6. Have you ever tried using a main menu on a cell phone that was not responsive? 7. For years the industry standard has been to not include a “home” button in your main menu. I have read in the past year that the home button is making a comeback, and some people are arguing that it should go in the main menu. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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The Principles of Good Web Design Part 1: Layout – Inspect Element - Web Design & Development Blog
17th September, 2009 Tom Kenny Articles Good web design doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, there are many aspects of design that come together to achieve this. The first one that we’ll be looking in this 4-part-series is layout. Layout is an interesting beast. Layout primarily consists of the following aspects: Whitespace Whitespace is space between elements on a page. Five Simple Steps Effective use of whitespace as seen on Five Simple Steps As you can see above, Mark Boulton has done a great job of using whitespace to promote his book, allowing elements such as buttons and text paragraphs to ‘breathe’ giving them the attention they deserve. Flow Flow in web design is the act of guiding the user through page. Fever The website for Fever is a superb example of flow in web design As you can see in the annotated screenshot above, there is a natural reading down the page. Alignment Alignment helps create a good flow. The 960 Grid System is the most common grid system used today
Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way
So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning . Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. Your New Project: How It Goes All Too Often On day one things are great. On day two you get the following: A TIFF logo (in CMYK) via email; A set of logo standards that include the RGB values, via email (separately); A disc full of photos with various names (like “DSC09080978″); A fax that labels the photos according to their file names; An email that lays out the top and second-level navigation, as the client sees it; A phone that makes last-minute changes to the top-level navigation; An email with a DOC attachment full of text for various pages (but not all of it). And on day three you get an email that makes half of the junk you got yesterday obsolete. Card Sorting
Content Style Guide Template & Process – GatherContent
When it comes to content, consistency is key. Companies and brands are finally considering content to be team-wide effort, which is exactly how it should be. This is a move that needs to be supported by the right tools and understanding. Consistency and brand messaging can suffer if guidelines aren’t in place. This step-by-step article will take you through the process of creating your own style guide template. Easy to create and used by your your clients organisation, your style guide will; Keep tone, voice, and messaging consistent.Guide your team on how to write for your audiences.Help maintain a recognised quality and brand identity.Result in more effective content. A style guide is a set of content rules that keeps everyone’s tone of voice on the same page. It covers aspects such as grammar, language, formatting and tone – all the things needed to compose and present content. Reason #1: It puts your audiences first All style guides are about communicating more effectively with audiences.
4 Ways You Discourage Customers From Buying
Something has happened between most companies and their customers--and it has led to a lot of lost sales. "Buyers are completely over sellers," declares Kristin Zhivago, revenue coach and author of Roadmap to Revenue. "They want to be educated and assisted, not sold. But sellers are still trying to sell the same old way." If you don't understand this dynamic, chances are you're creating barriers that actually discourage customers from buying. Think this couldn't apply to you? 1. "In most cases, there are too many steps to get to the information you need," Zhivago says. "Another thing companies are choosing to ignore is the importance of reviews," Zhivago adds. 2. You may think hiring the most energetic go-getters is the best way to generate sales, Zhivago says. 3. "These days, by the time customers talk to salespeople, they've already answered 80 percent of the questions they had by doing online research or talking to their friends about the product," Zhivago says. What's the solution?
Top 10 Most Important Pages Every Blog Or Website Should Have
Blogging is the best way to express your feelings. You really come to know interesting things and get the knowledge to the whole world. Personally for me, blogging is a medium to earn a decent amount of money and develop good relationship with readers and other fellow bloggers from all around the world. Making a successful blog is difficult: You have to give your blog a lot of time, regularly update the content, change the design according to the latest trend, essential pages and much more. The right way to handle the blog is to add better navigation and pages that are useful to drive more traffic to the blog. The idea behind creating these pages is to make sure that you give readers what they want and make it easy for them to find everything easily in the header or footer. In this article, you will see Top 10 most important pages every blog or website should have. 1) About Us Page : This is a very simple page which I believe essential part of a blog. [ad1]
