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Know Your Readers & Write Usable Blog Posts For Them

April 23, 2012 by Sarabeth Rivera

If you fail to know who your readers are and how to tailor your blog posts to meet their needs and interests you risk losing followers and having your blog fall by the wayside. However, if you are committed to creating a blog that engages your readers and attracts reader…

Guidelines

7 HTML Guidelines For Website Usability & SEO

April 16, 2012 by Michael Evans

It can be safely stated that everyone who owns a website wants their site to attract more traffic as this presents it with better growth opportunities. This is where many would state that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes to play. But in the bid to win the love, admiration and…

Color User Experience (UX) And Psychology

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Colour: User Experience And Psychology

April 9, 2012 by Jean Karl Izzo

Colour plays a crucial role in User Experience. It transmits a psychological message to your users and choosing the right colours for your brand, logo or product can be vital as it helps your brand or product get easily recognised and identified with your industry.

Terminology

Content Density – Importance for Usability and SEO

April 2, 2012 by Vincent Hemmings

Generating website content can be a tricky task. It needs to be engaging and depending on what the users’ goals are, it should also contribute a means to achieve them. Whilst it may not seem like a hard task, all of this has to be accomplished in a short and…

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Inviting Stakeholders To Usability Sessions: 14 Tips & Considerations For Email Invitations

March 26, 2012 by Eddie James

Sending out invitations for observing usability test sessions sounds easy. But to potential observers of your sessions, there are a lot of details they have to process in order to decide to add sessions to their over-crowded calendars. Here are 14 tips and considerations for designing better, more inviting email…

Business

Will the Internet Make Grammar Obsolete?

March 19, 2012 by Charlie Adams

Our society has become too busy. We’ve also become too accustomed to multitasking. Why wake up, enjoy a cup of coffee, read the paper and then take a shower when we can do it all at once instead? We sip our morning coffee while perusing the daily news at the…

Business

A 7 Step Guide to Website Usability

March 12, 2012 by Divya Rawat

The web is not an art gallery. And before all the art aficionados and web designers, take umbrage, let me clarify by stating that the net appreciates and requires usability. Keeping things simple and usable not only makes way for easier goal achievement but it also leads to higher conversion…

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5 Simple Guidelines To Improve Your Website’s Accessibility

March 5, 2012 by Alexsey Donets

With each and every passing day, the World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming more and more advanced. It has also established itself as one of the most vital and powerful resource of information, and a source abound with exciting possibilities. Sites have become the easiest and convenient forms of information…

Technology

The End Of The Flash Player

February 27, 2012 by Matt Beswick

Adobe recently announced that it is halting any future development for the mobile Flash Player. The company has stated that it intends to focus on its AIR-based and HTML5 apps for the smartphone market. Work will still continue though on the conventional Flash Player for PCs.

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Future Trends In User Experience Web Design Through Gov.uk

February 20, 2012 by Aaron Charlie

In January 2012, The UK government launched a BETA version of the new website Gov.uk to replace the existing direct.gov.uk site. This is the latest attempt by the government to provide access to all their information in one place. The new interface is essentially a search engine with a simple…