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Simple Strategies for Engaging Your Visitors

Posted on05. May, 2010 by tjswing.

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Engaging your visitors (audience, community, users, members, customers, or whichever term you prefer) should be your top priority. Plain and simple. Engagement is all about maximizing the value of your audience – increasing the frequency they return to the site, the tendency to tell their friends and the probability of them making a purchase. In other [...]

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35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

Posted on28. Apr, 2010 by tjswing.

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Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. But if done inefficiently, it can end up costing more time and can even create [...]

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The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites

Posted on28. Apr, 2010 by tjswing.

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If you want to “go big” visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope. Given the widespread adoption and advancements of modern browsers and JavaScript libraries, using Flash makes little sense. But it does have its place on [...]

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The Steps You Need To Take Before You Think About Form & Function

Posted on28. Apr, 2010 by tjswing.

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Usability is common sense. Good design is common sense. After all, there is no point building a site that is unusable, or a site that isn’t designed well. Typically, talk of usability orients around function i.e. ensuring websites are easier to use by streamlining content and making navigation clearer. The problem, like with any set [...]

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Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples

Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by tjswing.

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Geo-location was a hot topic in 2009. With so many applications on GPS-enabled smartphones, more maps than ever were accessible to the average person. But how can Web designers and developers take advantage of an increasingly location-aware user base? This article explores existing trends, conventions and the possible future of interactive maps online. [Offtopic: by [...]

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5 Simple Social Design Tips From the Masters

Posted on30. Mar, 2010 by tjswing.

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With so much content competing for users’ attention, it’s important for content creators to have websites or applications that are accessible, clean and interactive. For sites with a social media focus, a solid user experience is even more important because if users can’t easily navigate a site or connect with their existing networks, chances are, [...]

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25 User Experience Videos

Posted on28. Mar, 2010 by tjswing.

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We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have focused on current [...]