What is a UI Designer?

Posted by on May 18, 2012 in Design, UI Design, Usability, UX Design, Web Sites | 0 comments

What do you mean? As in what is UI? UI stands for user interface. Like user experience designers, we work a bit with usability, but primarily UI designers are visual with a touch of front end development. Most UI designers can program using the following languages: HTML XHTML (sometimes) HTML5 JQuery JavaScript CSS Most UI Designers can also use Adobe's Design Suite including: Dreamweaver Photoshop Illustrator Indesign I can do all of those plus PHP and a Read more [...]
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Default Values

Posted by on May 17, 2012 in Design, Strategy, Tutorials, UI Design, UI Pattern Library, Usability, UX Design, Web Sites | 0 comments

Challenge Choosing which values in a menu should be default. Ever go to a site that has a very small country set as the default value, a country that may not even have internet (or at best makes up .5% of online internet users)? Had the UI/UX Designer thought through the system configurations, you may have filled out that form slightly faster (it's a convenience factor). Solution Most users don't want to fill out long forms and will go to another site that will make the process easier for them Read more [...]
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Every Brand Needs A Face: Storytelling by Design

Posted by on Apr 9, 2012 in Design, Strategy, Web Sites | 0 comments

Every brand needs a face. A first impression. Why? So that you can relate to it. It's what ties an inanimate object or idea to your personality and encourages buyers. Let's not treat the buyer like an idiot though. The design is about story telling. It's about pure content mended together with form and function. Design is all about re-engineering an idea to tell a story and that is what I do. I'm a UI designer which stands for User Interface. Yes, I do other things like user experience, social media, Read more [...]
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Effective Web Design and SEO

Posted by on Apr 4, 2012 in Design, Guest Writer, Search Engine Optimization, UI Design, Web Sites | 0 comments

When it comes to effective web design and SEO, you should focus on this phrase - 'quality content'. This is perhaps the most effective method of online marketing, by getting your company's presence online and therefore reaching out to more potential customers. The content on your website should be useful to visitors, whether or not they make a purchase. Read more [...]
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Behavioral Design: Design the Damn thing

Posted by on Mar 9, 2012 in Design, Events | 0 comments

Behavioral Design is all about determining how a user will interact with your thing. Thinking ahead and committing to a plan. You want peope to like, share and use a product in the way that the designer and engineer intended. Dan Ariely wrote about the predictably irrational. In his book he mentioned examples of impscenario he offers you a half box of chocolates now or if you wait a week he would give you the whole box. In reality logic would state that people would want the whole box, but in Read more [...]
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