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Web Strategy
Easiness vs. User Experience
When designing a new website or redesigning an existing one, many decisions are made about content, structure, functionality, etc. Not all of the decisions are made for the right reason. These choices will impact, either positively or negatively, the experience a visitor has to your website.
Most of the decisions made will be based on user [...]
Focused Design
Many higher education institutions have multiple target audiences and multiple goals they want to accomplish. This is usually represented by the institutional website. You may see messaging for alumni, parents, donors, government, faculty, prospective students, current students, partners, etc. With each of these audiences, there are usually tasks the institution would like to see these [...]
CAPTCHA: Form Usability Nemesis
If you’ve completed a web form in the last ten years, you would have come across a CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The basic role of a CAPTCHA system is to prevent bots from spamming the recipient by displaying distorted images to [...]
Weekly Video: Design by Committee
One of our web designers sent this link to me (I wonder if he’s trying to tell me something?). Actually, this video is very funny and puts into action the negative outcomes of design by committee. All joking aside, have a committee provide the direction of any design is a critical fail point. What are [...]
Twitter… The Best Traffic Source
I fully believe this statement to be true, with one caveat, which I will offer at the end of the post.
The other day I was looking at the web analytics for my blog and noticed something interesting. I receive traffic to my blog from various sources, but I really just wanted to compare Twitter and [...]
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