- Get ready for Earth Hour — 28 March 2009
- What’s in store for the web? — BBC
- ABC Mobile goes live — mUmBRELLA
- Apple showcases iPhone 3.0 software updates — SMH
- The Semi-Permanent design conference hits Brisbane Saturday 8 April. Get your tickets now!
- Tickets are also on sale for the Search Engine Optimisation & Internet Marketing seminar on Wednesday 1 April — AIMA
- 5 writing tips for web designers — Web Designer Wall
- Removing poor quality content increases customer satisfaction — Giraffe Forum
- The power of utilising videos on a website — William
- Fantastic Puma commercial — Motionographer
- Good call to action buttons — UX Booth
- All your Photoshop needs in one place — I am Photoshop
- Get Wireframing — Grace Smith
Web design tips by hip-hop ‘SEO Rapper’
This guy is a classic. His name is Chuck, aka Poetic Prophet and The SEO Rapper.
In this video he raps his ways through a heap of great advice on web design. His tips are spot on too!!
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Continue ReadingVisual searching
I’m probably a bit late to the party with this one, but I’ve just discovered Searchme and I’m loving it! It’s a visual search engine that borrows Apple’s cover flow browsing technology so you can actually see your search results and flip through them like a photo album.
… Continue ReadingSearchme lets you see what you’re searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you’ll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you’re looking for, before you click through.
Weekly round-up
- Microsoft testing ‘smart’ search engine — News.com.au
- New search engine could ‘rival Google’ — The Guardian
- The online network you must join — Sydney Morning Herald
- 9 common usability mistakes in web design — Smashing Magazine
- Usability analysis of Apple.com: why is it so good? — Spoonfed Design
- Quick usability checklist — UX Booth
- Convincing computer animation recreates Hudson plane landing — Tech Crunch
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on US Dancing with the Stars — YouTube
- Customer experience during a recession — Elavision
- 50 minimal sites — Web Designer Wall
- 10 excellent open source and free alternatives to Photoshop — Six Revisions
Twitter for Twits
A lot of our clients ask us about Twitter – the “microblogging” sensation that’s about to be the next big thing. This article will attempt to break it down…
First thing first, What is Twitter?
Basically, Twitter is like Facebook status updates, or a microblog, where you can post your activity, your whereabouts or your musings in 140 characters or less. Each post is called a “tweet”
Is it easy to use?
Incredibly. Just go to twitter.com and sign up to a free account. Edit your profile information and type your first tweet into the dialogue box.…
Irrational behaviour…
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Continue ReadingThe start of something special (brand management online)
Nowadays, there’s so much information out there and it’s changing so quickly, it can seem impossible to keep up with it all. However, as one company found out, it pays to put the effort in to seeing who’s saying what.
On February 19th, Paul (from Idea Sandbox) wrote about how impressed he was with how a US company, L.L. Bean, are dealing with their price vs. quality image in the current economic climate. He thought they were doing pretty well. Read the post »
Within 1 ½ hours, L.L.…
Continue ReadingThe best online sources of design inspiration!
Sources for design inspiration are everywhere on the net – blogs, online magazines, corporate pages… Sometimes just flicking around different sites is all you need to get the creative juices flowing.
Here are my top 10 design sites (for right now).
Swiss Miss is a design blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer living in New York. She runs her own busy studio, yet still finds the time to update her blog every day with excellent bits and pieces that she finds inspiring. Sometimes it might be a quote, other times a funny YouTube clip.…
Continue ReadingBluewire on Flickr
Bluewire just joined Flickr, the online photo community, and we’ll slowly be adding more photos to it so make sure you check back often to see what we’ve been up to! You can visit our page here www.flickr.com/bluewiremedia.…
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