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A Responsive Web Design primer
7 minutes, 49 seconds
In less than 2 years responsive web design (RWD) has become a digital design trend. If you think the number of devices that needs to be considered is mind-boggling in 2013 this is likely to…
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Designing meaning: translating insight into design
11 minutes, 37 secondsRegardless of the proposed technology the ultimate goal is to make any design and the experience as meaningful as possible to the user.
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How to design forms part two – Pace and Balance
6 minutes, 1 secondIf you probe into an average online form’s analytics begs the question: ‘Why are they so difficult to get through?’ Often they are just boring.
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Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour
21 minutes, 10 secondsAs interaction designers we need to learn to dive below the surface and uncover the factors that will help us design deeper meaning. In interaction design, user experience (UX) designers must learn to design meaning.…
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Detecting font smoothing with JavaScript
3 minutes, 8 seconds“Progressive enhancement”, “graceful degradation”, “hardboiled”; these are just a few of the terms we hear being frequently passed around designer and developer conversations nowadays.
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Good UX Design is Invisible
7 minutes, 23 secondsDesign is a very complex subject and it has many definitions but one I particularly like is ‘plan and fashion artistically or skillfully’‚ (dictionary.com). Design is a highly skillful activity and requires dedication and creativity.…
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5 UX tips for effortless layouts
5 minutes, 26 secondsIn web design, page layouts are paramount to providing a good user experience (UX). Gemma Savagar gives her 5 top tips.
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A proposed framework for persuasion in ecommerce design
6 minutes, 59 secondsThis article proposes a potential framework for designing persuasive techniques into the design of an ecommerce website.
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Designing accessible icons (Part 2 of 2)
4 minutes, 4 secondsIf you remember back, I set myself a short brief for creating icons for our Content Management System. They had to be Accessible, Web-based and designed for our CMS. In the first part, we looked…
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Designing accessible icons (Part 1 of 2)
3 minutes, 40 secondsI love icons. Someone once described them to me as mini works of art ‚Äì and that‚Äôs not far off. They can be miniature designs representing something huge, all to be understood within a blink…
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UX Design: Four ways to display error messages
9 minutes, 46 secondsA typical interaction with websites involves filling in forms. When shopping online, for example, you must enter card details, delivery address and other personal information which generate error messages. In this article, we look at…
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The Science of Persuasion in Web Design
8 minutes, 3 secondsCaptology (Computers As Persuasive Technologies) is a new discipline that has increased in prominence as we continue to replace human roles with computers. In a busy market place perhaps captology can give you the edge…
