Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

YouTube’s Usability Testing

Developing a seamless web experience is one of the most challenging parts of website design and development. Not only does a website have to be attractive to end-users, but the interface must be intuitive for the users to find what they need or to discover what you, as a content provider, want them to discover. This key question of “What Goes Where?” is the focus of usability testing. YouTube offered insight to their extensive usability process in the redesign of their “Watch” page (the page you see when viewing an actual video). Youtube’s user research revealed... [read more]

Moving Publications from Print to the Web

An effort to ‘go green’ coupled with tightening budgets, many departments, labs, centers and groups are looking at ways to move their traditionally print-based publications to web-based communications. Karine Joly’s article from June 2009 issue of University Business entitled “2010: Print to Web Odyssey? A five-step plan for assessing and negotiating the transition from print to web publications” gives some great insight into the thoughts and issues surrounding the leap from paper to screen. Joly provides a nice, light-weight introductory questions to consider about... [read more]

The Browser Wars Continue

Computerworld shared a story today about Web metrics company Net Applications browser statistics for the month of August. The article describes how Internet Explorer is losing ground to Firefox and how Google’s Chrome is rapidly gaining on Apple’s Safari browser. It’s important to see what browsers people are viewing your sites on! Read more of the article here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137358/IE_tumbles_Firefox_regains_market_share_mojo  [read more]

Video demos of Google Chrome Browser

Google has some nice and short demos of what Chrome browser can do (Windows only for now). Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.  [read more]

Firefox 3.5 and your own fonts…

Among support for a number of HTML 5 specifications and updates to improve the tab experience, Fireox 3.5 now supports CSS Web Fonts.  From Datamation: One of the most visible changes that Firefox 3.5 will enable for Web developers comes by way of support for CSS Web Fonts. “When you think about it, Web designers have had to play with the same ten fonts that they could reliably ensure were on everyone’s computer,” Beltzner said. Beltzner explained that the way fonts have worked in the past is that a Web developer specified a particular font that needed to be resident on a user’s... [read more]