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How Visual Design Can Impact your Bottom Line
by Brad Henry | How do you know if you should invest more time and money into creating a killer design? This case study examines how the look and feel of the site can impact your overall conversion rate which can provide justification for a little more investment. View the old site, compare it to the new site and review the conversion metrics that shows the before and after conversion rates. Read More »
October 23, 2006, in Commentary & Society | IA/Usability
Can WCAG 2.0 be simpler?
by Vladimir |
The new WCAG 2.0 standard draft sparked a hot discussion around web accessibility and the standard direction. The main issue is how to make it simpler and easier to understand for web developer community. The author investigates some WCAG 2.0 success criteria and explains, why they should be solved by improving technology of user agents.
Read More »Navigation - our visitors' travel guide
by codepo8 | Your site navigation is what helps the visitors to find your content. Don't make it a technical portfolio but a helper tool. This article shows how the simplicity of real life navigational helpers can be applied to the web. Read More »
Understanding Color and Accessibility
by ThomH | We all know that color can make or break a site. But beyond eye candy appeal, color choices also impact usability and accessibility. This can impact up to 1 in 12 people, roughly 8% of a site's potential audience. The solution is not to use only boring colors or do only simple designs. In contrast, by understanding better the relationship between color and accessibility, the designer can make inspired and creative choices for the multi-device Internet. Read More »
August 31, 2004, in IA/Usability
Dynamic Elements - cloak and dagger web design
by codepo8 | Dynamic elements make web pages more fun, more interactive and allow us to make pages more usable - if we have CSS, Javascript and a mouse at our disposal. This article discusses some uses of dynamic page elements with accessibility and usability in mind and shows where they fail and what to do to make them better. Read More »
July 22, 2004, in IA/Usability
Writing effective link text
by trenton | Hypertext links are what connects web pages together and are at the very core of the Internet. As they're so important it's essential that your link text is effectively written and displayed - find out how. Read More »
May 18, 2004, in IA/Usability
Learning to let go
by codepo8 | Accessibility and Usability are discussed a lot more lately than the last few years. Many rumours and half truths about accessibility and the law make non technical colleagues come up to us with questions about accessiibility. Most developers make the mistake of considering accessibility a technological problem, which is only partly the case. We do not need new technology, as old browsers are here to stay, we need to rethink the design of the products we make, we need to learn to let go. Read More »
March 25, 2004, in IA/Usability
The best web development tool - ever
by codepo8 | What is the best tool to develop web products? Is there one that helps us create faster, more efficient and clean without costing a lot of money? Yes, there is, and you have been using it for ages. Read More »
March 12, 2004, in IA/Usability
I am USER, hear me roar!
by codepo8 | You want them, you need them - Users. Hear from one of them what you might do wrong and what you can do to make up for that. Read More »
February 24, 2003, in IA/Usability
Stephen Hawking and Me - Flash MX Accessibility
by dl_byron | The purpose of the article is to share my experience with Flash accessibility and offer the readers tips to make it work. Hearing your site can be quite unnerving, especially when the voice of Stephen Hawking reads it. There's also a Flash accessibility gotcha that I explain. It's not a breakthrough-code article, but should be helpful to those that want to make their Flash more accessible. Read More »
