Tag Archives: Usability

All about making websites more usable, thereby increasing return on investment (ROI).

New website design trends

Update your website with latest trends.

This year has seen many new trends in website design, the updates in CSS3, JavaScript and Jquery along with some innovative designers and coders have seen sites get more engaging for the user. The sites that make use of social media to encourage their users to spread the word about their fantastic new websites will no doubt have benefited from increased awareness and sales as a result. Continue reading →

Has Google got it wrong?

Google’s results have recently sent SEO-ers a little bit crazy, with many online businesses seeing their rankings go either down or up the ranking results with no apparent reason.
This has finally been explained by google who have informed us that they have released a new search algorithm that affects about 90% of searches.

This new update named hummingbird has apparently been in place for about a month and appears to be leaving the smaller online companies fighting to retain their position as the larger companies seem to be getting preferential treatment. Continue reading →

Highersites Weekly Web Roundup

No screen left behind: Creating a digital experience for multiple devices

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/no-screen-left-behind-creating-a-digital-experience-for-multiple-devices/
There is a growing need to support any and all screen sizes and devices. This article takes a look at the options we have to consider and makes a very important note, there is no right answer to the problem, but there are a multitude of solutions to consider and explore.

 

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The advantages of visualising design scenarios

Author: Rob Swan

Many moons ago, when I was an undergraduate, I worked as a video game functionality tester in Brighton. There was a lot of pizza and late night gaming involved, but amongst all of the fun I saw the repeated mistakes of many, many developers and it taught me a core concept:

“Learn to visualise all possible design scenarios” Continue reading →