Posts filed under ‘Exemplars’

Conversion design & users: Investigating the Baymard Institute

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars. 3 comments.

Conversion design is great but you need to consider your users’ requirements if you want to convert visits. Users can’t be made to do your bidding.

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Adventures in HTML5. Part one: Using HTML5 now

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars, How-to. 10 comments.

The first in a series of posts that documents my experience of HTML5. I begin by looking at whether we can start using proper (new tags and all) HTML5 now.

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Simple navigation: making it easy to reach lots of content

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars, Favourites, Writing. No comments.

Or: How to present 9 links in an easy to follow way.

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Using online design techniques in printed newspapers

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A “beautiful failure”: the Information Architects Japan redesign of Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger may not have made the cut, but it’s a highly creative approach to print newspaper design.

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How print and web are different

Posted by Leon and filed under Accessibility, usability and readability, Exemplars, WordPress. One comment.

Jason Santa Maria’s SVA Dot Dot Dot Lecture provides a wonderful overview of the differences between print and web design. It also raises some interesting questions about the history of web design, and how positive an influence print is.

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