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Sorry my content pages are lame…

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

I listened to a boxes and arrows podcast episode yesterday entitled ‘Content Page Design Best Practices’ which is a recording from a conference talk hosted by Luke Wroblewski. It was a real eye-opener. Over the coming weeks I am going to be optimising my content pages so that they are more efficient in the context of the broader web as a whole. My content pages aren’t usually accessed through the home page, most of you search for something and my website shows up in your results on that search term and then you land on one of many content pages.

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Tags: content, content page design best practices, luke wroblewski
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Iterative process and the need for play making in design

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Traci Lepore has just written her article Putting Together a Production: A Rehearsal Strategy for Design for UX Matters. Intelligently, in a captivating and easy to follow manner she likens design iterations and the need for an iterative process to her own personal accounts of being an actress. She has to learn the lines while getting over her own shyness and discomforts in order to work through the initial stages of what is required of her. Soon the shyness disappears and the acting refined over several iterations. The iterations are play making, trying out new ideas and discarding those that fail. This creative space for trial and error is essential to the refinement of the final play. This cycle, as she depicts through flow diagrams, is a helical process rather than linear. The steps in taking on board what is required, learning the script and refinement of acting are completed over several iterations, it is then up to the director and audience to judge.

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Tags: comic prototyping, ia, information architecture, interface design, traci lepore, User Experience, ux, ux matter
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DigiKev gets an overhaul

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

It was long overdue, but finally I have got round to giving my DigiKev Web site a total overhaul. The previous Web site felt broken and although the design was adventurous it didn’t lend itself to the array of content I wished to put into it.

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Tags: blueprint css, css framework, DigiKev, frameworkthree, wordpress
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