- 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!…
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- 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 — The Guardian
- MySpace is forced to slash workforce — The Guardian
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Google Chrome competition
- Interactive data visualisations — Creativity Online
- 5 reasons why a digital agency should take usability seriously — Experience Solutions
- Google takes its cameras out onto hiking and biking tracks — USA Today
- Is Microsoft’s new Bing search engine better than Google? — The Guardian Online
- Student photographers battle for spot on iGoogle — The Guardian Online
- Technology is there to make work and life easier — the trick is to avoid fads — BRW
- Showcase Of Popular Automobiles Websites — Instant Shift
- Wireframing Ahoy! — UX Mag
Ode to Google
Google just keeps getting bigger and bigger. They should be moving into evil corporation territory, yet with the imminent release of Google Wave, I still can’t help but love them. Here are five reasons why:
1. (Almost) everything is free.
Wired.com calls it “freeconomics”, Microsoft calls it “Holy $#&%! What are we going to do?????”. From Gmail, to Google Analytics; Google Docs, to Google Earth – it won’t cost you a cent. The user (you) is happy: you get to use a great application for nothing. Google is happy: they make money through advertising spend.…
Visual 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.