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Matt Cutts from Google’s Search Quality Team gave this compelling workshop-style presentation on 28 May 2009 at the I/O conference in San Francisco. He politely critiques actual websites that people in the audience have had the opportunity to submit for review. He offers amazing web design tips covering: – how to improve website usability – tips [...]

10 UI design patterns you should be paying attention to — Smashing Magazine jQuery for absolute beginners — Nettuts + Let’s make the web faster — Google blog Download iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 — teehan+lax Design for mobile wiki: resources for designing and building apps and sites — Little Springs Design Rupert Murdoch’s web ambitions [...]

Another great stop motion video. 12 excellent free tools for monitoring your sites uptime — Six Revisions iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor — CrunchGear Stop counting clicks — UX Booth Informative and useful footers — Smashing Magazine Secrets of a nimble giant — The Guardian Mobile phone flies plane — The Courier Mail Check [...]

Google Chrome competition Interactive data visualisations — Creativity Online 5 reasons why a digital agency should take usability seriously — Experience Solutions Google takes its cameras out onto hiking and biking tracks — USA Today Is Microsoft’s new Bing search engine better than Google? — The Guardian Online Student photographers battle for spot on iGoogle [...]

Google just keeps getting bigger and bigger. They should be moving into evil corporation territory, yet with the imminent release of Google Wave, I still can’t help but love them. Here are five reasons why: 1. (Almost) everything is free. Wired.com calls it “freeconomics”, Microsoft calls it “Holy $#&%! What are we going to do?????”. [...]

MSN vs GOOGLE – Search Engine Rap Battle Turn your own handwriting into a font! — Fontifier How to listen to the user and hear the experience — Usability Post Australian businesses are missing out on the internet’s untapped potential — BRW 15 essential issues for the creative community — Inspired Magazine Apple vs Microsoft: [...]

How to improve your branding with your content — Smashing Magazine Optimising conversion rates – it’s all about usability — Smashing Magazine Non-profit website design: examples and best practices — Smashing Magazine Complete beginners guide to information architecture — UX Booth Visual hierarchy in web design — Theme Forest Twitter surges past Digg, LinkedIn and [...]

A free company listing on Google Maps can be a great way to fast track your business to the first page of Google. Just as you used to let your fingers do the walking with Yellow Pages in the years B.G. (before Google), most people these days go directly to the ubiquitous search bar & [...]