Nov 19, 2009

Paral­lels between coo­king and desig­ning inter­fa­ces and websites. by Dmi­try Fadeyev* [usa­bi­lity­post] I’m not really an expert at coo­king but I do love to watch pro­fes­si­o­nals cook. I mean Miche­lin star level pro­fes­si­o­nals. What these guys pro­duce is really ama­zing and its also inte­res­ting to see just how much work...

Jan 16, 2009

Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Direc­tory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily upda­ted. They clas­sify web apps by tag­ging them and cre­a­ting a brief des­crip­tion for each one listed. You can browse web 2.0 sites by tag or you can search for apps using the top search box. Behind this pro­ject you’ll find a pas­si­o­nate team of web...

Feb 1, 2008

Users are in fact mythi­cal cre­a­tu­res that only dwell in sta­tis­tics and Excel sheets. Let’s say you are cre­a­ting a web­site for a tra­vel agency direc­ted at female customers. In the course of your rese­arch of this par­ti­cu­lar kind of ser­vice con­su­mers, you have found out that your tar­get group, the site’s future users, is...

Feb 1, 2008

A few topics on the cre­a­tion of an effec­tive banner. The main job of a ban­ner, oddly enough, is to take the users somewhere they pro­ba­bly weren’t plan­ning on going. That is, to steer them from what they are actu­ally loo­king for in the site. To that end, ban­ners must be com­pel­ling. A suc­ces­s­ful ban­ner explo­res the fact that...