Questions part 6: Aftermath and beyond |
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There’s life after launch. Reassessing, maintaining and adjusting the website requires critical evaluation from time to time. I often tweak sites with questions like these. Part six of six. |
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Questions part 4: Refining |
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Most digital projects I’ve worked on treat user testing as a last-minute event, if it occurs at all. If I’m lucky enough to have time for problem solving before launch, I ask these questions. Part four of six. |
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Questons part 2: Design |
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No two apps or websites, are the same. Neither are the roads between concept and first draft. But questions arise from wading knee-deep into code and pixels. Part two of six. |
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Little rewards and fewer frustrations makes content management less of a chore |
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Every website content management system lets people curate content. But I discovered that if the CMS itself is fun and painless, people are more inclined to update. |
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Thoughts against the clean buzzword |
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Aside from a knee-jerk requirement, what is clean design? Here I rant about clean as the result of good design, not a bullet point in some RFP. |
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The difference between copying and stealing |
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What makes copying easier than stealing? Thought and effort separate those who push their medium from their copycats. |
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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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The design process vs. design-as-product |
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The trouble with the word “template” is that its meaning depends on one’s point of view. To some, a template is a ticket to an instant website. Many content management systems allow owners to change plug-and-play themes as easily as they change clothes, and inexpensive skins are just a Google search away. To others, templates [...] |
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When is web design not a product? When it’s a process |
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You can often tell a website whose owner thinks design is a product. They’re the ones with slick edges and generic guts, where paragraphs flow into a given space like gel into a bucket. If the text is well written, you wouldn’t know it from the slapdash presentation. It’s like a $100 Merlot in a [...] |
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