Those of you who know me, know that I’m a huge fan of Formula 1. Of course, I’m also a huge fan of User Experience Design and so I couldn’t resist but draw up some parallels between my two favourite things – and there are a surprising amount of things in F1 that can help us understand how to design a journey for users.
Thanks to McLaren for the inspiration. I’d really like your feedback on this presentation as it went down well at a Conversion Thursday event I recently spoke at.
In a perfect world, everything would be perfect. All projects would run smoothly, with a perfect brief, perfect progress from stage to stage. Your perfect new site would look perfectly how you perfectly planned. Designers on the project have designed and implemented the perfect site. The information architects have built the perfect experience. Perfect code written by the front end back end team. There were no bugs or issues to fix after go live. Everything is perfect.
Responsive Web Design is officially the ‘in’ thing! It’s what everyone seems to be talking about. It’s to the point where it’s not just the industry experts, but clients are also talking about it.
So, what is Responsive Web? Well, it’s like the Chameleon of the web world. Rather than adjusting itself to blend with its surroundings, Responsive Web allows a website to adjust itself to fit the screen resolution of the device you are viewing it on.
When creating a new site, in order to get the most out of its online presence it is extremely important to understand your users and their purpose of visiting your site. Utilising the customer knowledge you already have can be effective in itself, but to really see the best results it’s imperative that you conduct user testing and not only that, effective user testing.
You know when a technology is going to be relevant in society, when it  makes its way on a popular TV show. Cars, jewelry, mobile phones, macs etc. have all made their way on various TV shows and movies. Next up was the debut of Near Field Communication (NFC) on one of USA’s top Sci-Fi show.
Last week’s episode of Fringe, saw an appearance of a smartphone featuring an eWallet application! It allows character to buy a cup of coffee using his mobile phone! In a Sci-fi orientated show, it is one of the coolest new technologies I have seen featured.
Those of you who know me, know that I’m a huge fan of Formula 1. Of course, I’m also a huge fan of User Experience Design and so I couldn’t resist but draw up some parallels between my two favourite things – and there are a surprising amount of things in F1 that can help us understand how to design a journey for users.
Thanks to McLaren for the inspiration. I’d really like your feedback on this presentation as it went down well at a Conversion Thursday event I recently spoke at.
Recently I worked on a new Facebook application, which obviously involved interacting with the Facebook framework. I’d been looking forward to another Facebook applications challenge, the reason behind this was Facebook’s continuously evolving framework and API. This project was a great challenge for me in that it had a very short deadline. Here, I will provide you with some useful information which may help you understand the Facebook application development process. Facebook has provided a very good set of ‘how to guides’, but I will try to fill in the gaps where I feel there is still something missing from their documentation. Read the rest of this entry »
Another Zabisco Slideshare presentation has just gone live. Explore the new presentation and learn more about Web Accessibility, Users with Impairments, Accessibility Options and other.
Apple recently launched the website for their WWDC 2012 event (The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference). Whats truly exciting is that the site features a gorgeous (I believe) new multi coloured, multi layered rainbow like Apple logo.
While I was looking for a gift for myself, I came across Pandora’s website.  For those who haven’t heard about Pandora before, it’s a company that designs, manufactures and markets jewellery. As a user, I was not only impressed by their collection but also by the way they presented their products.  Pandora has achieved to create a user friendly website using great interactive features.
Last night I was fortunate enough attend the London IA April 2012 event, any of you who have tried to book a ticket before know how quick you have to be on the refresh button before tickets sell out!
The night included two excellent talks: Joe Leech spoke about The Neuroscience of Design. Nick Marsh, Design Director at Sidekick Studios, talked us through the concept of Talking About Talking About Design!
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