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 — [...]

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 — You Tube
Google Wave is Coming: 100,000 Invites Go Out on September 30th — Mashable
7 Red Flags that Reveal to Google That You’re an SEO Criminal – Avoid These! — Winning The Web
Card.ly let’s you create cool online business cards in a matter of minutes — TechCrunch
Bank [...]

Novel to be published one ‘Tweet’ at a time — News.com.au
Inside Twitter HQ — The Guardian
Ten Simple Guidelines for Choosing the Perfect CMS — Noupe
12 essential security tips and hacks for Wordpress — Six Revisions
25 high quality free fonts for professional designs — Six Revisions
Speed up your website with better image optimisation in Photoshop — [...]

How to increase site performance through A/B split testing — UX Booth
MTVs brand new look — Creative Review
Clever billboard campaign for safe driving — Creativity Online
80 corporate website designs for design inspiration — Instant Shift
Introducing the Google OS — Google Blog
Time to invest in email — ClickZ
Perform better with Google Adsense: the ultimate round-up — [...]

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 for having search engine [...]

This was also published on Digital Ministry on 10 July ‘09.
If you’re interested in designing great websites you should definitely read this article called Great Design Should Be Experienced Not Seen by Jared M. Spool on UIE.com.
It resonated with me because many prospective clients and agency partners regularly ask, “can you show me some web [...]