Tag: case study
Lessons from building word clouds |
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Building a useful not-found search results page |
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The trouble with complex search tools is all the dead ends. When a client asked for a way to search their inventory, I went a step further: A search tool that doesn’t leave people guessing what might yield results. |
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Test Usability By Embracing Other Viewpoints |
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How do we know if a website is usable? By looking at it from someone else’s viewpoint. |
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From zero to layout: A redesign process |
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When I began working on a one-page web project, my client asked about the process. How do you plan a single page? What leads from raw text to a finished product? Getting from concept to finished draft requires many steps, but each phase shares common traits. |
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Creating a logotype depends more on the means than the end |
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The process of designing a type-based logo is similar to that of designing a shape-based logo. Both logos need to convey a message, do it quickly and appease the client’s taste. |
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I’d never built a word cloud before. A collection of user-entered answers to weekly questions sounded like a maintenance headache if people used it, or a failure if they didn’t. The client set high expectations, but neither of us saw what was coming.