The folks at cxpartners recently conducted a study on the tendency for visitors to scroll a web page.
The article can be found here
While the study is very encouraging, I can’t say I totally agree with some of the conclusions.
“A quick snoop around the web will show you successful brands that are not worrying about [...]
My girlfriend (@HeatherOT) is busy getting her own business off the ground. She specializes in a form of holistic therapy geared towards helping professional athletes recover faster and perform better overall. As such, she was in need of a few basic things to enable her to begin bringing her services to market. This included a [...]
If you’re planning a feature set for a product, always beware of “icebergs”. These are features that on the surface look harmless and trivial, but once you dive below that you discover that you’ve only accounted for 10% of the scope. Unexpected encounters with icebergs, without the proper navigation skills, can spell disaster and possibly [...]
I posted a bunch of old portfolio work to Flickr for those of you that are interested. Most of this is agency work so the end product was not always what I envisioned. In any case, here it is…the good, bad and the ugly.
I’ve been diligently working on the IA for my side project and come to the point where I have to make the tough decision as to what will constitute the first release. I could go in one direction that would convey the concept and could be done relatively quickly, but holds back a great deal [...]
Often times an interface designer will come upon a situation where he/she has discovered a superior, yet unconventional solution to a given design problem. The solution may be one that requires less time, less clicks or simply makes more logical sense, but at the same time may have a learning curve associated with it. Should [...]
I can’t say that I was a huge fan of CommandShift3 upon first impression, but I may have changed my tune a bit. Why? Seems as though Scrapblog, Tick, and Mikegowen.com have been doing quite well. I’m not one to toot my own horn, but since this blog is partly an archive of my achievements, [...]
Gambling involves betting a portion of money towards the goal of a larger return. This is not unlike what we do when building an application. We select the features we will implement with the hope that those features will form a valuable tool that is greater than the sum of its parts. But the similarities [...]
One of the most common mistakes I see designers make, is letting look-and-feel decisions influence functionality. This is often caused by jumping into a design program too early, and trying to tackle everything at once. The temptation to move a button, or delete a column of data for the sake of aesthetics can seduce even [...]
During my career as a designer I’ve often been bestowed the great and wondrous gift of “creative freedom”. In my earlier days, I waited and waited for this day to arrive…for this was when I was finally going to show the world what I was made of. When that day did come, the excitement and [...]