thirtyonethree

The creative blog of Jeff Bridgforth

User Experience

What can brown do for you?

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 [...]

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Connecting to Real Experiences

I came across Baldwin Wallace’s Web site as I was thumbing through Step Into Design magazine at Barnes and Noble. This is another example of a trend I have seen in college Web sites.
This site is drawing you into the world of being a student at Baldwin Wallace. Jared Spool classifies this kind of content [...]

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A Bad Experience with Bank of America

I just received a new business credit card. As with all credit cards, you have to activate it by calling a phone number. I called the number, pressed 2 for English and then entered my card number. Then I was asked for a verification code.
What? I look through the letter that came with my card. [...]

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Helpful, Practical Feature from AirTran

Last week I booked a flight to Boston for November using the AirTran. On the last page of the process, I found a feature that I really liked. It gave me the option to import both my departing flight and returning flight into Outlook. All the information that I needed to create a calendar event [...]

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Design or Content? Wrong Question

I like what this comic from Josh Porter communicates and I like how he chose to communicate it. those that read/use our Web sites are not so concerned about which is more important, design or content. What is important to them is that they can use it or that they want to use it.
MySpace is [...]

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