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Design: Definitive proof that design matters
It is not unusual for usability experts to claim that aesthetics are not important. If a site is usable that is all that matters. However, that is simply not true – design matters.
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Design: What is the best software for web design?
Is your choice of web design tool making life harder or easier, for yourself and others? We need to be more flexible over our choice of tool.
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Question & Answers: What goes into your site review?
What structure do you use when reviewing a clients existing site?
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Short Audio Tips : Side projects can cure our woes
Personal projects that we run in our spare time can be a great way of improving the kind of work we win and ensuring more of our ideas are implemented.
Better UX : Every Click Counts
Do the number of clicks a user has to make on your site still matter in the age of broadband?
Better UX : Google makes a rookie mistake on the iPad version of gmail
One of the most important rules of mobile web app development is that you shouldn't give the user an inferior experience. Wherever possible they should have the same functionality as on a desktop. Whe…
Short Audio Tips : The undeniable power of collaboration
The main theme in my latest book "Client Centric Web Design" is one of collaboration. If you want happier clients, better websites and more job satisfaction, you have to learn to work as a team with y…
Better UX : Making web forms conversational
Are you caring about your web forms? I came across this great article on Smashing Magazine from last November talking about web forms. The post is stuffed with great advice, but the following leapt o…
Better UX : Stop asking users to register before checking out
One of my biggest frustrations with the ecommerce sites we work on, is when clients want users to register before they can purchase. Users do not come to your site to register. They come to purchase.…
Content Strategy : The truth about content strategy
When I ask you about content strategy, what are you thinking? Are you thinking about populating your new website with copy or are you thinking longer term? When we meet with clients to 'redesign' the…
Development : Even website owners should care about code
Most of the time when a web designer talks to a client about code, the clients eyes glaze over. This is understandable. Code can be pretty intimidating. In fact many web designers legitimately argue …
Short Audio Tips : A different approach to web design education
A friend of mine is a mechanic. Recently he took on a new job working with young people who have failed to fit into the normal educational system. He has little in the way of curriculum. His objectiv…
Short Audio Tips : Client Centric Web Design on Sitepoint Podcast
The guys at the Sitepoint podcast invited me onto their show to discuss the upcoming season of Boagworld where I introduce Client Centric Web Design. The new season starts tomorrow, but if you would l…