You can’t fire your browser up these days without the Apple iPhone, and more recently the iPad, being mentioned. In fact it seems hardly a blog or article gets written now without mentioning these devices. I’m going to nail my colours to the mast now – I think that the Apple iPad will be a [...]
When the iPhone launched back in 2007, one of the TV adverts boasted about its web browser capabilities. It wouldn’t be a stripped down version of the internet, or a “kinda sorta looks like the internet”, but instead a user would be able to access the web in all its glory.
As an iPhone user, I know that this is [...]
Earlier today, over at Econsultancy, Matthew Curry talked about e-commerce platforms getting it wrong with their dependence on Javascript.
I do find it quite surprising how widespread the practice of building Javascript-dependent e-commerce sites is now. As a UX designer, I love all the new bells and whistles we’re able to roll out on sites these [...]
After commending www.karenmillen.com on their use of “view on a model” without the need to actually click anything, I was interested to see on visiting the website yesterday that they have taken a further step forward. Enter the Karen Millen online “Fitting Room”.
This feature has been available (but fairly hidden) on the site for some [...]
I’ve just finished reading Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson. It’s an excellent read for anyone that is involved in managing a website of any kind.
Content is a fundamental part of any website. It sounds obvious but as Halvorson points out, all too often the content is the last thing to arrive when websites [...]
It’s 12 February and I just received an e-mail from Screwfix with the subject line ‘Nothing says I love you more than a pink drill’. Once again I find myself wondering how many relationships might fail this weekend thanks to online marketing.
But it got me looking through my other e-mails to see what else I had been [...]
I’ve just finished reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug, the web usability guru who wrote the celebrated Don’t Make Me Think.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy is a very practical, hands-on guide for anyone interested in running usability tests on their websites. It’s also very short - it only took me 3 hours - so I recommend you read it. However, to try and give [...]
The new Whistles site has already sparked a thousand comments on blogs across the UK with its decision to break with e-commerce convention.
Without quantitive insight into users’ behaviour on the site, I can only add my own opinions to the mix, but let me say that at first the site felt to me like a [...]
I really like what Debenhams has done with their Christmas TV ad campaign. Like many retailers, they’ve put the ad on their website along with a ‘behind-the-scenes’ clip and a competition.
However, they’ve also gone one better than most other retailers - little product shots appear throughout the ad as it plays online, allowing the customer to click and view that [...]