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- Web communication & marketing (9)
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- Interface design (6)
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Latest entries
- Web site banners—don’t make me scroll!
- “Click here to…” a poor user interface practice
- A web page should fit my browser
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Best practices in web and user interface design
Random notes, opinions, advices, and articles. Please comment!
08/23
2009
Where do I click? Poor user interface is poor communication
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Have you ever found that sometimes you just don’t know what you can or can’t click on in a web page?
09/02
2009
Web design presentation—how to decide on the best solution?
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While designing a web site, there will come a time when several design solutions will be proposed to you, the client. At that time I always stress that you should look at them as if you were a visitor to the web site.
09/09
2009
Know the site’s content before designing a web site!
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I often work in collaboration with graphic designers who will often present a web site’s look and feel to their clients without having analyzed what type of content their design is supposed to support. This has always been puzzling to me.
09/22
2009
A web page should fit my browser
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Before starting the design of a web site, one of the first things to evaluate is what computer screen resolution our expected audience will be using when browsing the site. It is typical for first-time web designers to then design a web page to fit these dimensions exactly. This is a mistake.
10/06
2009
Web site banners—don’t make me scroll!
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A common mistake for interface designers is to design web page banners that are too tall. Sure, they’re visually appealing and can have great impact. But they also drastically limit the depth of the content area, which forces the user, page after page, to have to hit the scroll bar. And that, ultimately, may frustrate them.
