Weekly round-up
- 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 — SMH
This is so amazing! A Japanese music clip directed entirely from fans’ webcams.…
Human Resources in web design – QUT Creative Industries – Presentation to Work Placement Students
HR is a hot topic at Bluewire Media at the moment! We’ve chosen it as our theme for the quarter and everyone has committed to their own goals to contribute to improving this area of our business and making sure we’re having fun at the same time!
Yesterday, Adam, Angela and I went along to a QUT Creative Industries Transition Program lecture to talk to 3rd year students.
The purpose of the presentation was to inform the students about the work placement program from Bluewire Media’s point of view.
I covered 3 areas:
- Our recruitment process – what it is, why we’ve done it this way and what the students can learn from it
- What they can expect in their work placement
- What the benefits are for the students
So, what is our recruitment process?…
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- 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 intern busted by Facebook – Valley Wag
- The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook – techipedia
- Melbourne’s $200,000 Logo – Fuel Your Branding
- Twitter Marketing: A Small Business Guide — Left the Box
- Twitter effect costs Brüno millions — Sydney Morning Herald
- A guide to Google Analytics and useful tools — Smashing Magazine
- Designing print friendly websites and articles — Divi toDesign
“Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music
via Surf Station…
Introducing…
Stefan Sagmeister is a bit of a god in the graphic design world. Born in Austria, and now based in NYC, he carved a name for himself working on album artwork for the likes of David Byrne, Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. In 2005, Sagmeister’s Talking Heads box set artwork won him a Grammy.
His work is characterised by hand-rendered typography, and oftentimes elaborate setups that would require hundreds of hours of work. Sagmeister really broke the wave of computer-generated, minimalist, Swiss-influenced graphic design of the time and his style has permeated the advertising, music, fashion, graphic design and art sectors.…
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- 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 — UX Booth
- Recommended books for your user experience and usability library — UX Booth
- Microsoft encouraged by early Bing success — Sydney Morning Herald
Bizarre break-dancing babies for Evian, France.…
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- 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 — Smashing Magazine
- Facebook makes spontaneous event planning easier — TechCrunch
- Four questions every usability professional should be thinking about — Dexodesign
- 10 Usability lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think — UX Booth
Brilliant real-life web design tips from Google
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 friendly URLs
– how to avoid being black-listed as SPAM & avoiding attacks by spammers
– how to make your words easier to read
– making your navigation simple to use
– using keywords for more visitors and better search engine optimisation (SEO) results
– how to make people buy more easily from your shopping cart
– how to YouTube videos effectively
It is quite a long video, but you’ll be rewarded for your time!…
Continue ReadingThe Secret to Wow Factor is Invisible Design
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 design with wow-factor?”
It’s a question that can be tough to answer succintly and politely, as the website design alone shouldn’t make you go ‘wow’—if it does, in my opinion it is bad web design.…
Continue ReadingApple.com, circa 1983
I stumbled across this blog post, which made me smile. The Apple.com website, imagined as it would have been 26 years ago… Rainbow logo included!
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- The White House’s photostream — Flickr
- Elements of an ideal burger — NY Times interactive
- Firefox 3.5 is released — Go get it!
- An interview with Danny Nathan of Poke NYC — Site Inspire
- Flickr and Twitter are now officially sucking face — TechCrunch
- 10 tools to improve your site’s usability on a low budget — Web Designer Depot
- Spell check your website — spellr.us
Google asks, “What is a browser?”
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