Site search trends for e-commerce websites — Vandelay Design
Negative space in logo design — Logo Design Love
Ten commandments of social media — Noupe
Twitter rated 2009 word of the year — Sydney Morning Herald
Complete beginners guide to interaction design — The UX Booth
You can’t innovate like Apple – Pragmatic Marketing
3 Steps for Effectively Using Social Media [...]
I’ve just finished reading Steve Krug’s excellent book on web usability called Don’t Make Me Think. It’s often the case that people (clients and web designers alike) know their websites too well. So well they can’t see them from an objective viewpoint anymore. That’s why I really like Steve’s reasoning for doing user testing:
“Testing reminds [...]
Redesign: When to relaunch the site and best practices — Smashing Magazine
The top 10 web applications for web designers in 2009 — WEBDESIGNDEV
The lazy designer’s guide to success (according to Pentagram’s Michael Beirut) — Azure
On web typography — A List Apart
The death of the boring blog post — Smashing Magazine
10 useful bookmarklets for web designers [...]
App to find nearest toilet? Data flood unleashed — Sydney Morning Herald
The Font Kingdom: Search, explore, create and download fonts for free — Tech Crunch
Getting started with content management systems — Smashing Magazine
The process toolbox: Prototyping — Erskine Labs
5 simple but useful CSS properties — Web Designer Wall
Long tail user experience: how to cultivate (or [...]
15 great free online file sharing alternatives — Hongkiat
The case for content strategy: Motown style — A List Apart
Free and commercial stock photography sites — Smashing Magazine
12 reputation management tools to track your name — The BINC Blog
Panasonic gets savvy to social media — Digital Media
Microsoft takes more steps towards cloud-based future — The Guardian
Lance’s [...]
Bluewire Media have racked up a number of finance sector projects recently, and when Trinity Investments asked us to modernise their website’s structure and design, we were really enthusiastic about it!
We’re now proud to present the brand new website over at trinity.com.au. Amidst corporate restructures and the ailing economy, this project took a lot longer [...]
Joel Flom is a world reknowned expert in usability and user centred design, and we were fortunate enough to interview him to find out more. Joel partners with Bluewire Media through his Brisbane usability consultancy - Elavision.
In this interview Joel Flom shares:
what usability is & what’s involved
how customers benefit
how businesses benefit
his #1 usability secret
what you can [...]
Google Caffeine gets two thumbs up — Information Week
The best of Google Streetview — Times Online
Welcome to the free world: The fast-growing online economy is revolutionising how we do business — SMH
The rise of conversation media — UX Booth
Useful web design email newsletters — Smashing Magazine
10 harsh truths about corporate blogging — Smashing Magazine
30 Flash-based [...]
The “launch” is what a website project is all about. It’s our common goal: the whole project team, the client, third party contributors—everyone!—strives towards making it a reality every day. But for many people, what actually goes into making a website live is a great mystery…
There’s no secret “launch” button.
BoxUK.com have written an amazingly comprehensive [...]
Better design produces love at first site — SMH
5 tools to increase accessibility — UX Booth
20 inspirational e-commerce sites — Vandelay Design
Visual decision making — A List Apart
How to observe the user and tap into the experience — Usability Post
9 compelling reasons to build a single-purpose website — Brian Cray
Apple developing touch tablet device — [...]
