Tag Archives: User Experience (UE)

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 [...]
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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 on [...]
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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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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 blast [...]
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