Archive for October 2009

Finding focus while trying to work — Konigi Google voice with your existing number — Google Voice Blog 10 UX blogs you should be reading — UX Booth Google takes on iTunes with music search — Times Online The 10 best educational websites — Times Online Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from [...]

Adam Franklin will be presenting “Creating Emails For Maximum Results” at EMSA – Email Marketing Summit Australia. Here he gives you a sneak peek into what you can expect! TICKET INFORMATION EMSA – Email Marketing Summit Australia Wed Nov 12th, Harbour’s Edge, Darling Harbour, Sydney Tickets $149

Hello Angela. Can you please tell us a little about your background? I have a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from QUT and have worked predominately in Sales, Customer Service and Administration across several industries.   Can you give us a quick rundown on what exactly Quality Assurance is? The ultimate goal of quality assurance is [...]

I’ve just finished reading SEO Secrets by Glenn Murray. As a copywriter, Glenn manages to make even the clunkiest aspects of SEO accessible to the layperson. What was most striking in reading the book was that much of optimising your blog or website is naturally intuitive. Most SEO is more related to time and effort [...]

Our quarterly theme at the moment is “Expertise” so to tick of one of my goals for the quarter I sat down with Andrew McFarlane, our Digital Strategist, to learn a bit about his job and his area of expertise. First of all, what does ‘digital strategy’ mean? It’s a very loose term that gets [...]

Apple bucks recession trend with record sales and profits — The Guardian Speaking of Apple, check out their new Magic Mouse — Apple.com Fix it — Even if it ain’t broke — Fast Company Focusing interaction design with design strategy — UX Booth A place to ask questions about the user experience disciplines — UX [...]

If designing & developing great email marketing templates wasn’t already enough of a challenge, (one we take pride in here at Bluewire Media), Microsoft has decided to use Word to render HTML in the latest version of Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have [...]

  I sat down with Sam Sargent, one of our web site programmers and Help desk manager to talk shop about Content Management Systems.   1. What is the purpose of a Content Management System (CMS)? To allow a non-technical person to update their website.   2. Therefore, what is the most important aspect of [...]

15 common mistakes in e-commerce design and how to avoid them — Smashing Magazine Usability testing demystefied — A List Apart Performance comparison of major web browsers — Six Revisions How to understand your users with personas — Carsonified Design as a differentiator — Brand Freeze Google Wave 101 — Life Hacker Meeting with the [...]

I recently came across a terrific example of social media usage in business from a Slideshare presentation by Jonathan Crossfield of the Australian web hosting and domain company, NetRegistry. One case study particularly stood out which involved an interaction @NetRegistry had had with a fellow Twitter user. How would you rate this example as a [...]