Working closely with the Creative team, as I do, I have the unique opportunity to consider user experience through the life of the project. More than many engineers, I work directly with the user. Developing wireframes, considering inform
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2010.02.16
I've been working on a project for an internal client, which includes linking out to various medical search utilities. One of the sites we are using as a search provider offers pharmacy searches. The site was built on ASP.Net technology,
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2010.02.05
Some sites, like this one, have a reasonably focused audience. It can become problematic, however, for corporate sites to sort out their users, and lead them to the path of enlightenment. In the worst situations, it may be a little like t
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2010.02.04
I just read a short, relatively old blog post by David Naylor regarding why he believes XML sitemaps are bad. People involved with SEO probably know and recognize the name. I know I did. I have to disagree with his premise, but agree wit
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2010.02.02
Today, at the time of this writing, Google posted a blog stating they were dropping support for old browsers. They stated:
The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including vide
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2010.02.01
People are creative. It's a fact of the state of humanity. People want to make things. It's built into the human condition. But there is a difference between haphazard creation and focused, goal-oriented development.
Andy Rutledge sta
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2010.01.29
When given a task of making search terms and frequetly visited pages more accessible to users, the uninitiated fire and fall back. They leave in their wake, broad, shallow sites with menus and navigtion which look more like weeds than an
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2010.01.18
Most content on the web is managed at the page level. Though I cannot say that all systems behave in one specific way, I do know that each system I've used behaves precisely like this. Content management systems assume that every new pie
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2010.01.15
Nothing like a nod to the reverse mullet to start a post out right. As I started making notes on a post about findability, something occurred to me. Though it should seem obvious, truly separating presentation from business logic is key
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2010.01.14
User self selection is a mess. Let's get that out in the open first and foremost. As soon as you ask the user questions about themselves directly, your plan has failed. User self selection, at best, is a mess of splash pages and strange
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2010.01.11