Worldy Inspiration from Tourism Websites
Jul 30, 2010 - The tourism industry can be a major source of revenue for a country and in some cases, it can even be its main source or revenue.
That’s one of the main reasons why web design for this field plays such a vital role in promoting and attracting potential tourists from other parts of the [...]
Job: Amazing Digital Media Intern
Jul 28, 2010 - We’re looking for an amazing Digital Media Intern for a paid, 3-month internship.
Fast Forward Three Months…
We’d like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our Digital Media Intern. You’ve doubled the number of podcasts we’ve been publishing, making them sound [...]
Passwords that are Simple - and Safe
Jul 28, 2010 - By Simson Garfinkel
Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords without making a system more vulnerable to hackers.
Instead of enforcing complex passwords, as many organizations do, the new scheme makes sure than no more than a few users can have the [...]
Overcoming the Obstacles of Usability Testing
Jul 27, 2010 - Usability testing, though incredibly useful, is not without its own hitches. Author and self-described "usability geek" Jacob Creech walks through the most common issues and how to avoid them.
UIEtips: Three Important Benefits of Personas
Jul 26, 2010 - As part of our research to understand what techniques truly help teams produce better designs, we’re still constantly surprised by the number of teams successfully using personas. With personas, teams report that
they are producing more usable designs that better match the needs of their [...]
iPhone 4 one month on – A user experience and functionality [...]
Jul 25, 2010 - A month on from launch, there 's been a lot reported about alleged antenna problems with the iPhone 4, but on the whole I feel the device is the successful evolutionary step customers were hoping for. I've been using the new iPhone 4 for one month and it has are two great advancements. [...]
Darwin City Council Website - Australia's Most Usable!
Jul 23, 2010 - Council websites have become an integral source of information for people living in cities. They provide information on everything from pet registration to garbage collection dates and noise restrictions. Using Loop11, we invited 600 participants to take part in a website usability study of of [...]
UX Around the Campfire?
Jul 23, 2010 - We all use stories to communicate, explore, persuade, and inspire. In user experience, stories help us better understand our users, learn about their goals, explain our research, and demonstrate our design ideas. Basing stories on fact (data or knowledge embedded in your organization, or even new [...]
UIEtips: Actually, You Might Be Your User
Jul 22, 2010 - One of the common traps I see UX professionals fall into is believing there’s a right way and a wrong way to design things. We get too dogmatic, convincing ourselves there is a single ‘best practice’ that will yield the best results. Many of us are not open to the idea that [...]
20+ Demos Showing Advanced jQuery Effects
Jul 22, 2010 - Just a short while ago, Flash was one of the primary technologies used by web designers to add interactivity to a website.
Since the introduction of the iPad, with its lack of the Flash Player, there’s an acceleration in the web development world to use alternative technologies to Flash, such [...]
