Posts Tagged ‘information architecture’

10 ways you can use photos to influence the user experience

Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010 by James Chudley

Photos can have a fundamental effect upon the user experience but as UX designers we generally ignore them. In this article James Chudley, our resident photographer, shares ten ways that you can use photos to enhance the user experience as well as suggesting a new way to annotate photographs in your wireframes and prototypes.

Five tips to improve your user interface design

Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Richard Caddick

Five top tips to improve user interface design at an early stage of project development.

3 isn’t the magic number

Posted Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 by Fiz Yazdi

Jared Spool gave an excellent talk at UX London in June called ‘Designing for Content-Rich Sites’. Fiz was there and here she talks about the myth of the 3 click rule.

Ecommerce optimisation tips part 2: Designing for desirability and how to avoid feature creep

Posted Thursday, July 9th, 2009 by James Chudley

Users find desirable products easier to use, but how do you make your product desirable without killing it with feature creep?

Ecommerce optimisation tips: Why you shouldn’t treat your users like flies

Posted Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by James Chudley

A successful ecommerce site must do many things for users, and not just sell them things.

Information Architecture: tips to maximise SEO

Posted Monday, April 27th, 2009 by James Chudley

James Chudley shares some tips on how information architecture can be used to create better SEO and better user experience.

Application level navigation

Posted Monday, January 19th, 2009 by Richard Caddick

Some thoughts around keeping a user updated on the state of their account wherever they are on a site.