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Little Delights and Why It Pays to Sweat The Small Stuff
My first boss drummed into me the importance of paying great attention to detail in everything I did. But little details, he told me, are especially important when working on designs for products and communications materials. So it was great delight that I was recently introduced to a lovely site called Little Big Details, which…
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Myth-busting: Calls-to-action Must Be Above The Fold
The longer you work in any specialist field the more susceptible you become to placing trust in tried-and-tested rules and principles. Take the well-known fact that content placed on a website above the fold (that is in the top portion of the screen, visible to all when the page loads) performs better than stuff below…
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Become a site usability guru with Usabilityhub
I’ve been playing with fivesecondtest on Usabilityhub.com today, a free tool that allows web designers and site managers to test different design options free of charge. It’s a neat service; by signing up and taking a few tests you earn “karma points” that eventually allow you to commission your own test. Of course, if you…
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Loading… creativity into every inch of your site
Everything we create for the web has the capacity to be both remarkable and remarked upon. Take the humble ‘loading’ screen for instance. Once a staple of any rich media website, fast broadband connections have made the loading screen increasingly rare, if not quite extinct. But there’s still so much scope to use this fleeting…
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Being Remarkable: How even a dull ink cartridge can win you business
Marketing wizard Jeremy Epstein is always banging on about how important it is to be remarkable. If you want your message to stand out in our frenetic digital age, says Jeremy, you’d better be remarkable. And he’s right, as usual. Being remarkable means people will notice what you’re doing, maybe pause for a moment, and…
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta – the start of something big
The web tonight is awash with news of the release of the beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). At the risk of being accused of cronyism, this is a major development for web design and designers. IE holds over 60% share of browser usage (source: Wikipedia) and the release of IE9 beta therefore signals…
