I recently had the opportunity go to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to start a new project for one of the biggest Saudi Arabian IT companies. The project’s aim was to consolidate all their services into a singular portal with a single entry point and have a hub for all the purchased services.
It was a great opportunity as I was able to experience a different culture and working environment. It inspired me to document it all in another “Dear Diary” post like I did for “just-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ux-architect.”
At its peak in 2006/2007, Myspace was the most dominate social networking site. It had reached 100million accounts and was valued at 12 billion dollars! Five years on, myspace is now owned by Specific Media & Justin Timberlake, and recently released a teaser to showcase it’s revamped site.
The hero is the most prominent area on a web page, which is usually the area at the top of a web page. All eyes are always fixed on it. There has been a lot of user research conducted, which shows that the top area of the page gains most of the user’s attention. As users go further down the page, their attention gets less & less. Due to this approach, websites place a lot more emphasis on getting the most out of the hero space.
This blog post details a number of different approaches that users can take to make the most of your hero space.
A new Zabisco Slideshare presentation has gone live. This month’s topic is to look into Application Design and Oracle Fusion. The Slideshare should give an overview and insight into what you can do whilst creating applications. Also, insight into Oracle Fusion and points covering Application Design. You can take a look here.
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.
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.
The leading Movie magazine, EMPIRE recently restructured their website navigation and placed emphasis on certain parts of the site. The original navigation items were: Daily Quiz, News, Blog, Video, Reviews, Future Films, Feature, Interviews, Images, Competition, Forum & Magazine. (See below)
“an online journal whereby you can digitally pen down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything else that you want people to read about” (whatdoesblogstandfor, 2011).
Here at Zabisco we take a few hours out of our normal route to write a few blog pieces for the company blog. We have always found blogging very useful and it helps us collectively. So, why should you blog?
Last year I wrote a blog entitled, “Introducing Near Field Communication(NFC)“ about a technology, which was starting to be used frequently in the Far East. It was allowing people to make payments/purchases using their phones as well as use it as a ticket to get on the underground. (See picture above). About a year on from when I wrote that blog post, it seems like NFC is ready to take the world by storm! Tech-heads attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier in the month were treated to a number of demonstrations of NFC enabled devices.
