Category Archives: User Experience (UE)

Thoughts on web usability, information architecture and accessibility

PM vs UX vs Marketing

By Dhiren | Published: August 20, 2010
Not quite sure how I stumbled upon this deck, but it’s given me quite a lot to think about. As some people do or don’t know I’ve moved to pastures new and I’m having to take many of the things above into account.
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What terrifies Bill Gates?

By Dhiren | Published: July 29, 2010
Who cares? Is it worth cheapening your clean homepage with the kind of advertising that you’re likely to find on Pirate Bay or some kind of underground file-sharing service. By the way, did you spot the missing question mark? A copywriter out there must be getting a serious lambasting. Do. Me. A. Favour.
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Gesture Cube

By Dhiren | Published: July 19, 2010
The web is rapidly becoming a more semantic, dynamic and real-time environment. Applications now sit on the cloud and people are spending more time on social networks. As we spend more time “leaning in”, the ergonomics of the equipment we use starts to become vital. Seamless lifestyle integration and usability will be critical to making [...]
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You only need to tell me once

By Dhiren | Published: July 16, 2009
Recently I read Steve Krug’s book: Don’t make think. It’s a very basic UE/IA primer, but a must read for anybody who is involved in anything to do with content, SEO, design and development. One of the things that I learned about was concise and clear UI’s across websites; they shouldn’t overly repeat things where [...]
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Usability as USP

By Dhiren | Published: April 14, 2009
Whilst I was watching the box last night I noticed that the T.V. commercial for Go Compare was promoting the fact that their website had really good usability. I think it’s a clever move from an advertiser that is now operating in quite a saturated market. There are so many insurance comparison sites and aggregators [...]
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Eastern Electro

By Dhiren | Published: March 22, 2009
I bought some great albums this weekend by Nasha Records, just supreme eastern electro breaks. Their online shop doesn’t let you download directly; however, I recommend tunetribe, who have the online music purchasing experience well and truly mastered. Everything from UE, SEO and good design have been addressed very well. I had my music downloaded [...]
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Navigation Navigaton

By Dhiren | Published: February 21, 2009
The SEO vs. Design vs. UE vs. Tech debates still carry on, however, I do learn some cool things as a result of them. A colleague of mine pointed out some good examples of user friendly navigation on two popular websites. Shown below are grabs from Ikea and Times-Online:
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Zazzling Zoom

By Dhiren | Published: November 30, 2008
I was surfing the web for t-shirts today, just looking and not buying. I want to print my own, there are so many Banksy tee’s available but no Binoy Varghese tee’s or any of the artists that I like. Anyway I stumbled upon Zazzle.Com, which at first looked like any other t-shirt website, however, after [...]
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Gmail goes arty

By Dhiren | Published: November 22, 2008
So I pressed refresh on my gmail browser tab the other day and up popped a notification for a new feature, themes! I had a browse and then selected the space theme, or something of that nature. The theme I had selected was quite cheesy and it reminded of me using Encarta 96 (There’s a [...]
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