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...
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,...
View ArticleLibrary 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 ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleCollaborative 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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