The 600 Dollar Mistake
It has happened to me a lot of time, the last time it happened, it cost me around 600 dollars. I sent out a hosting and email proposal on behalf of my company. I made the document in Microsoft Word, all nice and tidy. The email was written not in haste but with care (it [...]
Website design vs. website success
A bit too many clients ask for a great design to embrace their online presence. They would want the ‘wow’ effect configured into every square centimeter of their web page. The need for eye-candy does not seem to end.
But it really should.
Design is secondary. And design has a duty to perform i.e. to disperse the [...]
Wordpress 2.5 is out and about
The User Interface for the new Wordpress deserves to be noticed, not because it is good, which it might turn out to be, but because it is done-up by the people behind Happy Cog, a user-interface-design firm.
Wordpress has certainly come a long way, and the massive popularity of this blogging platform owes its credit not [...]
Presenting website packages
The page has been there for some time now.
Unfortunately, it has not been done up properly. In fact, it has not been done up at all!
A lot of the website visitors are going to the website packages, only to be perhaps see just one ‘package’ (where the offering is so vauge that it may make [...]
Focus and such
The primary job of design is to ‘disperse’ your attention in predetermined ways.
If you want your customers to click on ‘buy now’, the design should, in one way or the other, work towards that. Many-a-times, a design will take all the attention with the content being pushed in the background.
And by design, I am not [...]
User Interfaces for people who can’t read
The sheer penetration and availability of the Internet can pose some interesting challenges in the realm of design.
Imagine an information kiosk in a village somewhere near the small city of, say, Pakpattan (in the province of Punjab, Pakistan). Now, assume that someone who actually knew what he was doing designed and developed the kiosk [...]
Building better User Experience, but never the best User Experience
The contact form being used over at Property Standard website is a solid attempt at bringing some of the best practices of User Friendliness to the local (read Pakistani) market. (The sheer disappointment I feel due to ‘big budget’ websites produced by none other than Pakistani ’software houses’ that lacks even the basics of user [...]