Persuasion Architecture has been around for years, Bryan Eisenberg (and his brother Jeffrey) founded the term and has been successfully establishing it as a concept and a measurable process. However, in a recent post, he states that after 7 years we still must be aware of usability and optimising the user experience. Regardless of the… [Read more…]
February 11, 2008
The challenge that faces any design project that uses wireframes is that they can easily be snapshots in time and become static. As soon as they are printed or circulated around a stakeholder group they become a moment in the site development’s life cycle. They often can be made redundant due to forces outside of… [Read more…]
January 31, 2008
Any web designer or IA will find this document really interesting and high value. It makes you thankful for institutions like the BBC who readily share their research with the public. This openness and transparency is really admirable and only possible through public funding. Find out the style and layout properties for the forthcoming… [Read more…]
January 28, 2008
These serve so many different elements to a website design. To not use them seems a bad mistake. Initially they can help overcome issues about how an element may work on the site. More importantly they clarify the purpose of every element that appears on the page and states the user interaction. The aim of… [Read more…]
January 7, 2008
The powerful thing about the wire frame is that it removes many emotive aspects of design that will cause division amongst clients. There are no uses of branding , colours or elements of graphic interest on a good wire frame. When they are stripped back to absolute functional essentials it is much easier to explain… [Read more…]
December 5, 2007
This was not so much a redesign, or even a relaunch, but more of a resurrection of a site that had become tired, old and ineffective. Its many shortcomings were highlighted with the onslaught of the new generation of sites from competitors that used user-generated content and a more social networking approach to their presentation… [Read more…]
November 17, 2007
Bizarre as it may seem, this strange sketch helped me maintain focus during my recent MA in Design Practice. The mental model was a way of remembering the core elements of my learning contract – which effectively are elements of professional development. The full essay is posted here with insights to reflective practice in the… [Read more…]
November 6, 2007
When thinking about how teams work very often there needs to be a person who can become the glue that holds it all together. A person who can do this has a special talent, not only can they motivate a variety of personalities but they can bring it all together for the common good. They are… [Read more…]
October 28, 2007
The importance of web metrics has always been self-evident in the world of SEO. It is the measurement of key performance indicators, obvious to all, as clear as day in fact. This transparency and the credence of web analytics is a powerful companion to IA strategies, convincing the client is so much easier when real figures… [Read more…]
October 16, 2007
In his book, Communicating Design, Dan Brown has a chapter devoted to the concept model. Initially I thought that these were little more that an add-on for a web project but after using them for nine months I can safely say they are integral to any new site or redesign. The power of them is… [Read more…]
February 18, 2008
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