Writing for Usability and Findability
It seems to me, these days, that real usable content is taking a back seat to whizbang-widget-this-AJAX-that graphic self-indulgence. I’ll be the first one to jump up and down when the subject of good design and solid user experience are on the table. We know, as professionals in the field, that a well-designed, aesthetically pleasing [...]
Information Hierarchy in Design
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on redesigning our company website and we went through the standard process of looking at visual comps, tweaking the design and iterating. One of my challenges was to produce an “academic” design, this was important because we plan on having a rather text heavy site.
Granted, typography [...]