Weekly round-up
- 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 for PR – Top Rank Blog
- 7 Steps To A Google Top Ten Rank – SEO Design blog
- 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases – Mashable
- 7 Simple Truths of Social Media Marketing – Duct Tape Marketing
You may now update your Facebook statuses…
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Movember – Changing the face of Men's Health
Being the 30th, I thought I’d put together an animation and take you on journey through the month that was Movember!
Nic & myself as The Bluewire Media Team, managed to raise a total of $265.00. (Not bad for a couple of hairy lips) Donations are still open if you’d like to chip in…
To date, (over 6 years) Movember has raised $60 million globally for the fight against prostate cancer and depression in men. And, more importantly, as a direct result, male awareness of health issues has improved with Movember helping to spread health messages directly to millions of Mo Bros & Sistas around the world.…
Continue ReadingWeekly Round-Up
- Top 10 Internet moments of the decade — Sydney Morning Herald
- The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market — The Times
- User reviews: Increased sales, traffic and transparency — The UX Booth
- How to evaluate what CMS to use — Six Revisions
Showcase of beautiful typography in web design — Noupe
Be sure to check out National Geographic’s International Photography Contest for 2009:
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Reflecting Your Company's Character With Copy
Today at Bluewire we have been discussing how important it is for a website to reflect the character and personality of the business that it represents. When it comes to design this is obvious – you don’t need to explain to companies that the way their website looks will reflect the way people see their business. But when it comes to copywriting, it seems people are less convinced.
Of course, design is important. Not only the way the website looks, but also the way it works will affect customer satisfaction. But what about the words?…
Continue ReadingGoogle Headings & Descriptions – SEO Brisbane
Reaching the top of Google (and staying there) is akin to playing a game with ever changing goal posts. There are so many elements that contribute to where your website is placed and for how long.
And while it’s granted that Google moves in mysterious ways, and you will never be able to control every single variable, there are nevertheless loads of techniques you can use to keep kicking goals when the Googlers make it tricky for you.
One simple and effective way is to make sure what actually comes up in the Google listing is fully optimised, makes sense, and tells the viewer “this is what you are looking for” – by addressing exactly what it is that your website delivers.…
Continue ReadingInterview With Matt Luscombe – Web Developer
How did you get into web development?
When I was a young teenager at the turn of the century, I fiddled around with building small web pages, in so far as to create fan sites for whatever computer games I was playing at the time.
What programs do you rely on most heavily?
My workflow consists of a variety of beautifully designed Mac OS X software: The Hit List, Textmate, CSSEdit, Safari, Billings etc. Photoshop is in there, but it’s just not very well designed!
As a freelancer, how do you advertise your services?…
Continue ReadingWeekly Round-Up
- Next wave may sweep all aside — Sydney Morning Herald
- It’s Martha’s world—we just tweet in it — Min Online
- Increasing online sales: simple usability problems to avoid — Smashing Magazine
- Can you say that in English? Explaining UX research to clients — A List Apart
- Google seeks to turn a profit from YouTube copyright clashes — The Guardian
Evolution of a logo design
NHRR logo development from Herbert Matter on Vimeo.…
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- 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 Venus — A List Apart
- Wireframing ahoy! — UX Mag
Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks
Pulling from his collected notes and sketches from over three decades, renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut shares five simple secrets for doing great creative work.…
Expert Interview – Angela Brown – Quality Assurance
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 customer satisfaction.
ISO 9001:2008 is the internationally recognised standard and provides a set of requirements to help manage a company’s processes and ensure that product is consistently created to satisfy your customers’ requirements.
What are the pros and cons of becoming quality assured?…
Weekly round-up
- 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 Exchange
- Bing, Google integrate Twitter in search results — Sydney Morning Herald
- It’s RIP Vista as Windows 7 is launched — Sydney Morning Herald
Innovative online advertising from Apple…
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