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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]