Most recent blogs in the Information Architecture category
No, this is not another meaningless political slogan. I just want to tell a quick story about some fantastic work we've completed for one of our major clients. Something a bit out of the ordinary from what we normally boast about, and something our team is quite proud of. It also reminded me why we are in this game, the IT industry: to support the business.
Making forms fun is a difficult task. But Virgin America.com has managed to do just that.
Form design is critical to website conversion. We have some golden rules as web designers and it is a brave soul that challenges these rules.
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.
A look into server farms, and where all the "How to's", selfies, posts, comments, photos and videos live.
Designers often feel pressure to reduce margins and pack the majority of content above some arbitrary ‘fold’ line.
A quick inside to real web project management. From the theory to the practice. Waterfall, agile, scrum, what really works?
The ability to copy and paste cases as well as actions within cases saves heaps of time.
I’m starting my series of blogs by heading back to basics…
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.
Users statistically click RHS calls-to-action more than LHS ones
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.
Far too often, people settle for expert analysis and predictions from their web site developers and why not? Your web designers have been around for X years and the guy designing it has 10+ years experience creating websites, so surely they know what they’re doing, right? Wrong!
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.
HTML forms have always been a secret little enjoyment of mine. While many user interface designers die a little inside every time they have to turn 300 questions into a simple two-step online form, I relish the opportunity.
As prototyping tools such as Axure increase in features, our prototypes are becoming more and more complicated.
As with information architecture for standard web pages, designing the user experience for web widgets and iPhone apps is a similar process, but with the key difference being the size of the area you have to work in.
White space can be your best and worst enemy. Too little and the page looks crowded and confusing, too much and the individual content elements look lost and disassociated with each other.