Posts Tagged ‘usability and design

Attending conferences and seminars can noticeably boost your knowledge and work productivity. Design, development and social media conferences give you the wonderful chance to acquire essential knowledge in spheres you’re interested, get in touch with the masters in the field and be up-to-date about the freshest trends. These conferences usually gathers together hundreds of designers, [...]

A few weeks ago, a project landed on my desk that involved creating some highly detailed work in Adobe Illustrator. Based on the nature of what needed to be done (which I really won’t get into) I figured that the best option would be to give the gradient mesh a whirl. I’m not all that [...]

We recently did a showcase of 9 common usability pitfalls, and how to avoid them, and in the comments there were a lot of questions about the websites we think stand out, and do a great job of both usability and design. Today you can see a list of nine great examples of very usable, [...]

Episode 7 of The Big Web Show is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. In this most excellent episode, co-host Dan Benjamin and I talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing in the real world, with practical advice for designers, UI engineers, and developers alike. Jared Spool is the founder of [...]


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