The Designer Will Make It Pretty
Each client has the ability to design their website as they see fit, but we have an unbalanced ratio of designers to clients. I do not have the luxury in my day-to-day work of spending months working through a design process as part of a client’s implementation. However, this scenario of limited time hardly strikes me as rare among my design peers. (more…)
Create wireframes that work for you
In this excerpt from The Web Designer's Roadmap, Giovanni DiFeterici discusses the role wireframing plays in design, and how to create a wireframe that suits your own needs. Once all the planning for a site is done and the initial thoughts have been hashed out, we must start putting together concrete ideas for design and structure. (more…)
Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design
At Mobify, we recently analyzed data from more than 200 million visitors to our e-commerce customers’ sites, and found that 27% of site visits came from people shopping on smartphones and tablets. For some countries, such as Brazil, we found that nearly half of all e-commerce traffic came through mobile devices. (more…)
Design Mistakes We Made in Our iPhone App
Getting things wrong is inevitable when designing a complex user experience like a mobile app. That’s especially true when you’ve never done it before. As logical as your wireframes may seem, or as beautiful as your mock-ups may look, some of your designs are going to fail when you put them in front of customers. (more…)
Stop chasing screen resolutions
We live in such an exciting time in the world of the web. Technology and standards are moving forward at a rate that’s perhaps both faster and more exciting than ever. As things change, so do our habits, and one area that I think has seen bigger changes than most would have to be the change in resolutions that our devices are now running. (more…)
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