No, it's not just office clickbait. It's three points on not sucking at workshops.
Windows 10 Insider is a epitome of why you still use a desktop to get things done.
Axure's push/pull is a great addition for speedy wireframes, however there's one constraint that can have you pulling your hair out!
The Verge has often been accused of being a little bit pro-Apple, but today's home page is something else...
I’m just another person who made fun of phablets… then got one.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yet again, shows us the future of consumer tech.
John Allsopp from Web Directions drops in to have a chat...
The team is back again for the 10th anniversary...
We all know Google is smart. Too smart for us to keep trying to trick it with old SEO practices.
Standardising the web is rare. Will the standardisation of navigation make it? Is the hamburger menu attempting to do just that. Is it work?
Google has yet again updated it Android and iOS apps, but this time it's Uber integration that's the big feature.
Assumptions are an important part of any thinking, but only if we write them down.
Responsive web design is the buzz word at the moment, but what does it actually mean? How do you decide if a website is responsive? Before we answer these questions, we need to step back and define the word 'responsive'.
WCAG 1.0 is almost 15 years old, so where is everyone upto in the world of web accessibility?
We all hate Christmas shopping at 10:45pm on December 24th. Plan ahead and use someone else's thoughtful gift idea!
The Wiliam team head to Web Directions South 2013 to get inspired!
The rise of the smart phone has been a fun ride, but is it now loosing its wow factor?
Most aspects of Chrome OS is now running inside Windows.
Axure 7.0 beta is in the works and the biggest change isn't adaptive views, it's shortcuts.
Samsung has launched the Samsung Galaxy Gear, a smartwatch that not only connects to one of two Samsung devices, it carries a list of annoyances that fail to define the smartwatch as 'necessary'.
Oppo and people who brought you CyanogenMod, now called Cyanogen Inc., have partnered together to release an Android phone with very best of the Android romming community.
Together with Qantas and MasterCard, we celebrated the launch of the Qantas Cash website last night, the 27th September 2013.
Axure RP 7.0 is in beta and will be released soon to replace 6.5. There's one new feature that's not great.
When we scope a website, we need to define what browsers we will optimise the website for versus those browsers that the website will operate satisfactorily. It really comes down to budgets.
User testing new website design, features, functions and processes is one of the best ways to understand whether you're on the right path or not. The only better way to understand what users think is to launch your work to the masses...
Get your logo looking clean from 320 pixels wide to 1920 pixels wide and you’re site will look ten times better for it.
In the world of prototyping, our UX team constantly finds itself tackling checkout pages.
The rise of streaming video across the Internet has pushed focus to video.
Targets are anything a user has to click; links, buttons, checkboxes, form fields, etc…
The biggest problem with this statement (apart from the excessive title case), is ‘may’ is a weak word. What does ‘may’ mean?
I’m not an Android fanboy, an Android enthusiast if anything, but not a fanboy. If we’re pigeonholing, I’ll go with an Apple conscientious objector.
I don't like the Apple vs Samsung patent outcome one bit.
When we started designing mobile websites, 320px wide was definitely ingrained. It was all fun and games until Apple released the iPhone 4 and upped the resolution.
The ability to copy and paste cases as well as actions within cases saves heaps of time.
Recently, our managing director made some theoretical claims about Australia’s mobile phone saturation and how it’s reflected in society.
In April of 2010 (well into the widescreen era), a company in Cupertino, California called Apple Inc. decided to release their iPad with a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels. Forever locking in the 960 pixel wide web site.
Due to the development of Google’s Chrome OS, it was unsure if Chrome (the browser) would make it to the Android platform. However, for whatever reason, it has. And it’s fast!
The data speeds achieved by 4G will change the game in world of mobile web.
2012 will be another big year for mobile phones. Last year ended on a high with the release of Android v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and the Google phone, Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Mozilla has broken through the mold again with the release of the tablet-optimised version Firefox, for Android of course.
I’m starting my series of blogs by heading back to basics…
I’m putting myself on the path to find this better way and it’s going to be an adventure. Over the next couple of months, I’ll be looking into a range of user interface delivery methods that satisfy the client, our designers and our developers.
1984 wasn’t like 1984, but 2011 looks a lot closer.
As one of the office’s many Android phone users (and maybe one of the more passionate ones), I consider myself an advocate of the benefits of open source software. While the iOS vs Android debate will never die between myself and some of the hardline Apple fans in the office, I’m always interested to see where the decision to go ‘open source’ takes other platforms.
As an interaction designer, a large proportion of my time at work is spent using Axure. Axure is a strong tool, helping us maintain consistency across our prototypes by utilising masters and dynamic panels. However, during the course of prototyping a web site, your Axure prototype can easily resemble a mash up of colours, panels and masters.
I titled this blog so blatantly because it sounds like an oxymoron. A huge alphanumeric jumble of characters and the notion of increasing the usability of a web site doesn’t sound right.
We recently had some discussion regarding where button belong at the bottom of forms. If you don’t have time to read this whole post, here’s the quick answer: There isn’t one.
As prototyping tools such as Axure increase in features, our prototypes are becoming more and more complicated.