Best Practices
Design Consistency and Redesign
October 14, 2009
An important design lesson was reinforced by a visit to my Walmart Neighborhood Market. Walmart has recently changed their packaging design. As I looked for some items that we frequently buy, I had to look a lot closer because I was not able to use the visual cues that I have come to associate with […]
Great Designers <del>Steal</del> Practice
April 15, 2009
Last week, Cameron Moll posted Good Musicians Copy. It was a follow-up to a post he made several years ago, Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal. In that article, Cameron was: “…attempting to describe the idea of becoming a better designer by dissecting, analyzing, and ‘copying’ the works of other designers.” In his follow-up article, […]
A Well-Done Critique
October 17, 2008
I also posted this on http://wearethelab.com A couple of week ago, I read Jared Spool’s article, What Goes into a Well-Done Critique. One of Jared’s observations is that teams that felt they go the most out of critiques were those that conducted them the most. Critiques have benefits for both the designer and those looking […]
Web Design Best Practices Rap
May 22, 2008
This YouTube video features a rap about Web design best practices. I found this via The Rissington Podcast.
Design is in the Details
May 2, 2008
Here are some memorable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Webmaster Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I listened to this talk over my Christmas vacation. I listened to it again this morning. I had immediately applied several of the things they talked about […]
What can brown do for you?
November 9, 2007
I found this site through Design Meltdown, a gallery of design styles. This site is a good example of nice design which gets recognized by a gallery but has some usability issues when you actually use it. First, You have to go to the top right to a “home†graphic to link back to the home […]
Homepage the least important page on your site?
September 7, 2007
Last week, I was listening to a podcast from UIE on Homepage design. Jared Spool pointed out that the homepage is the least important page on your site. He believes the content page is the most important because that is what the user is looking for. I see his wisdom in this. Jared also talked about […]
Embracing the Medium
August 21, 2007
Khoi Vinh wrote an article for print designers who want to get into Web design. I think he makes some good points about how designing for the Web is a different discipline than print design. He addresses one of my pet peeves of an over reliance on Flash that I have observed many print designers […]
Some Best Practices from Jared Spool and UIE
April 11, 2006
One of the blogs that I follow is UIE’s BrainSparks. There were two best practices that Jared Spool posted recently that I found interesting and would like to consider integrating into my practice. Two simple post-test questions — these are two questions they ask users after a usability test. I could see using these questions […]
