Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’

Panel Notes: Effective Dashboard Design

Dashboards need to be visual. Scannable.

Highlighting exceptions allows people to quickly spot problem areas. Example slide was a bar chart full of gray bars with one very low bar that was red. Second example slide showed negative % change in red with other percentage values in black.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Everything on your dashboard will be a performance indicator but not necessarily a key performance indicator. Example: Total sales: 9.1M â€” the value looks good. But if the percent change YoY (year over year) is -13.6% then the total sales value isn’t very good at all. Choose the right data to display.

Panel Notes: Wired Digital Rebirth

Design Fidelity – the longer the publication timeframe the higher the design fidelity. Daily newspapers have a low fidelity. Monthly magazines have a high fidelity.

The better the design:

The easier the reading experience
The deeper the engagement
The more connected the consumer
The stronger the brand relationship

Panel Notes: The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions

He’s talking about iLike.com where, instead of getting a form to enter artists he likes, he was presented with a grid of artists (picture + title) that he could select bands he likes. At the bottom of the page he could see more artists or he could go to the homepage. Very much like Netflix.

He clicked through 10 pages of artists. The visual nature of the list piqued his curiousity.

I’m talking about pain-free design signoff for your clients, not you! If the client is happy, you’re happy.

–Paul Boag

Paul Boag uses his storytelling style to walk you through the bad side of how most designers go through the design process with clients and then offers his ideas on how to improve the process.

New site design

I’m redesigning my site. If you’ve been around here at all, you’re probably thinking “but Chat, you just did that in December!” Well, yes, I did. But that was more of a triage. Taking a broken website and fixing it so that it had the bare minimum usability.

One thing I’m very proud of with the current design: total images for the entire site (not counting any images I add for specific posts, like this one) are about 3.7kb. You read that right. 3.7 kilobytes. Not 370 kilobytes. Not 37 kilobytes. 3.7.

10 Sources for WordPress Design Inspiration

Creating a website can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve never done it before. More and more people are turning to blog software like WordPress to get a site up and running with very little effort and even less know-how. Free themes let them quickly choose a theme that works for their needs, whether those needs are running a business or talking about their cat (I’m obligated to mention talking about cats whenever talking about blogging in a broad sense. Thank you for that media.)

Design & Developer Jobs in Austin

Looking to hire a web designer or developer in the Austin area? Are you a web designer or developer looking for work in the Austin area? I’ve posted a few helpful resources after the jump.

Web Application Development: the Changing Battlefield of Web Design

Apple’s supporting HTML5 for video over Flash players. Google has a browser-based OS coming out and leveraging HTML5 makes a lot of sense there as well. That’s a shot directly at Microsoft. Frankly, if the club being used is an open standard, I’m okay with that, but larger questions are being raised…

Asking the Right Questions

A lot of people think designers just make things pretty. We don’t. First and foremost we solve problems. Problems that usually start with a question and, sometimes, we need to ask ourselves if we’re asking the right question.

Vendor Client Relationships

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