User Experience
The “Experience” of Martha Stewart’s New Web site
I saw Martha Stewart’s new Web site for the first time tonight. I was pretty impressed by what I saw. The site takes advantage of Flash video, sIFR, and Javascripting that all contribute to experiencing the Martha Stewart brand online.
You can take a tour of the new features which uses Flash video. It combines screenshots, [...]
Difference between Useability and User Experience
This comes from Jared Spool on BrainSparks:
Usability answers the question, “Can the user accomplish their goal?�
User experience answers the question, “Did the user have as delightful an experience as possible?�
Read the full post by Jared (one of my Web design superheroes)
Empowering Users to Improve Their Life
I have been challenged recently to think backwards to consider “what problem is a website trying to solve?” Or what ministry problem is the site or Web app trying to solve? I think these are good questions to consider and to go back to as you consider if your site is staying on [...]
Experience Design
As it becomes easier and easier for designers to pack more features into the little boxes they want us to buy, it’s going to become more and more important to ask the questions about which features should be included and how will those features improve our lives. This is what experience design is all about…
This [...]
Web 2.0 is about empowering the user
See Dave Rogers’ article, Web 2.0: Mistaking the Forest for the Trees? It helped me to make another step in understanding and being able to explain this concept that has been termed “Web 2.0.” Web 2.0 is the application of the reality that most designers and companies have been slow to embrace. The Web is [...]
