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Collaborative User Testing: Less Bias, Better Research
I’ve always worked in small product teams that relied on guerrilla user testing. We’d aim to recruit the optimal number of participants for these tests. We’d make sure the demographic reflected our...
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Is Your Responsive Design Working? Google Analytics Will Tell You
Google Analytics has some great multi-device features built in; however, with responsive design, we are really designing for form factors, not for devices. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how...
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Library Terms That Users Understand [eScholarship]
This document is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It...
View ArticleUniversity Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
In preparing a new full-day course on designing university websites, we conducted a range of user studies. In total, we tested 57 higher-education sites with users in the United States, Canada, UK,...
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Theme Process Roundup
This is an index of a series of articles I wrote on the process I went through creating the third theme for this site. It was spurred on by the release of WordPress with the new Customizer feature and...
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Responsive Design
The Creative Librarian website at multiple screen-sizes. Responsive design is a method of web design that has been developed in response to the almost infinite number of screen sizes designers are...
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Flat Design
Windows 8 Flat Menu Skeuomorphism is the design style of making web interfaces look like physical interfaces, such as the book shelves on the Kindle Fire. Flat design is the current trend seen in...
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Responsive, retina-ready icons
With the advent of high-density displays (including Apple’s Retina), there has been a scramble in the web design community. Since the creation of the World Wide Web, small and low quality (compared to...
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Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML
Instead of giving you a single favicon.ico file, RealFaviconGenerator generates all the pictures and HTML code you need to get a cool, mobile- and tablet-ready favicon.
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Responsive Inspiration
Responsive Design Sites: Higher Ed, Libraries, Notables is a list of responsive university and library websites created by Eric Rumsey. A nice starting point for research if you’re looking for...
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Responsive Webdesigns in Libraries
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s responsive website. in The Mobile Challenge | The User Experience, Aaron Schmidt has some excellent points to make about the difficulty in using responsive...
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State of the mobile web — sources | Karen McGrane
State of the mobile web — sources is a collection of current statistics on Internet use on mobile devices with links to their original publications.
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How to test responsive designs for free | Webdesigner Depot
Screenshot of Creative Librarian using Am I Responsive. Stop resizing that browser, you’re gonna wear it out! How many times have you heard that one? Well okay, maybe not so many times, but if you...
View ArticleMobile Emulators and Simulators – The ultimate guide to mobile developers
In the mobile development world, a device emulator is a desktop application that emulates mobile device hardware and operating systems, allowing us to test and debug our applications and see how they...
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DiagnostiCSS // Visually detect any potentially invalid or inaccessible HTML...
DiagnostiCSS highlights the following problems within markup: inline styles invalid links empty elements elements missing required attributes deprecated elements- title Vasily Polovnyov
View ArticleTeenage Usability: Designing Teen-Targeted Websites
Teens are not technowizards who surf the web with abandon. And they don’t like sites laden with glitzy, blinking graphics. Teens are often stereotyped as only wanting things that are bold and...
View ArticleInteractive Guide to Blog Typography
Have a blog? With small adjustments, you can noticeably improve its typography. Your readers will thank you for it. This guide will help you understand the typographic foundations that will improve...
View ArticleNielsen is wrong on mobile | Opinion | .net magazine
The notion that you should create a separate, stripped-down version for ‘the mobile use case’ might be appropriate if such a clean mobile use case existed, but it doesn’t. Josh Clark, Nielsen is wrong...
View ArticlePublishing Scholarly Articles with WordPress
WordPress is one of, if not the most, popular pieces of software for blogging and managing websites, mostly because of the ease of installation. But customizing it can be a difficult and technical...
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The Problems of Creating an Academic Library Website
Someone recently asked me about the problems faced by academic library websites and I immediately started writing a list. Being a fairly unique part of an organization is difficult enough. But the...
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