Tag Archives: User Experience (UE)

PM vs UX vs Marketing

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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Gesture Cube

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

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

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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Navigation Navigaton

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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Gmail goes arty

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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