Small Farm Design http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 links for 2010-03-05 http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/03/05/links-for-2010-03-05/ http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/03/05/links-for-2010-03-05/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:01:19 +0000 Craig http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/03/05/links-for-2010-03-05/
  • Vanity Barcodes - Functional Decorative Barcodes UPC EAN
    (tags: design inspiration)
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  • 'Good' Beats 'Innovative' Nearly Every Time - BusinessWeek
    An obsession with innovation leads executives down the wrong path. Just trying to be good would be a smarter focus
    (tags: strategy business)
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  • A List Apart: Articles: Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun
    In Berkun’s latest feat, a book titled Confessions of a Public Speaker, he untangles this fear for anyone who expects audiences to listen.
    (tags: speaking presentations tutorials tips)
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  • Customer experience is harder than it looks - Good Experience
    There are stakeholders within the company that buy into the customer experience idea, understand the problems on the site, and want to improve. But they're stymied by other parts of the organization who are affected by inertia, bureaucratic process, short-term thinking, turf wars, inefficiency and distraction due to information overload, and a host of other issues. There are often too many concerns inside the organization to properly focus on who's outside the organization: the customers. And so the customer experience doesn't improve, despite how obvious the need (and potential gain) may be to objective observers like you and me. Actually getting a change made is really hard.
    (tags: userexperience ux business)
  • Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
    (tags: webdesign freelance)
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  • Conversion Room
    If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign.
    (tags: usability forms roi)
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  • Conversion Room: Improve your web-forms and increase conversions
    If you ask someone if they enjoy filling out forms, you are more than likely going to find that forms are not viewed as an enjoyable experience. Users are likely to complete a form if they feel it helps them accomplish a task and / or there is a personal benefit / incentive for them to complete it.
    (tags: forms usability ux webdesign userexperience)
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  • Boost Your Creativity with Eye Movement: Scientific American Podcast
    Recent research published in the journal Brain and Cognition finds that people can boost the number and quality of their original ideas when they increase the interaction between the brain's right and left hemispheres.
    (tags: brainstorming inspiration podcast creativity)
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  • The Age of Customer Capitalism - Harvard Business Review
    Companies should seek to maximize customer satisfaction while ensuring that shareholders earn an acceptable risk-adjusted return on their equity
    (tags: ux business)
    • ]]>     http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/01/29/links-for-2010-01-29/feed/     10 Usabilty Facts You Need to Know http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/01/28/10-usabilty-facts/ http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/2010/01/28/10-usabilty-facts/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:57 +0000 Craig http://www.smallfarmdesign.com/blog/?p=911 Usability can be directly linked to your website’s success. This is due largely because the usability of your website affects your visitors’ perception and their effectiveness when they are on your site.

    Listed below are 10 usability facts that will help your website succeed.

    10 Website Usability Facts You Need

    1. Don’t make a visitor think, the first law of usability. The visitor should be able to understand the site, page, or application without thinking what they are being asked to do.
    2. Don’t make your visitor feel stupid if there is an error. Design the website functions to be error free but when errors happen design useful messages that help the visitor correct the mistake and move on.
    3. Don’t place important information in images. Visitors will ignore anything that looks like a banner even if it isn’t an advertisement.
    4. Visitors to your site are looking for trigger words that they think will get them closer to completing their task. Websites with clear labels and navigation options help drive the visitors forward in their effort to task completion.
    5. Remember, visitors don’t read the pages of your website they scan trying to be as efficient as possible. Think about your own reading patterns when arriving on a site your eyes immediately start bouncing around the page looking for your trigger. Don’t rely heavily on text and instructions to make something understandable.
    6. Visitors make bad choices, click the wrong link, select the wrong product, skip the wrong field, etc. Make sure your site is forgiving when these bad choices happen. Help the visitor get back on track building their confidence.
    7. Keep your website’s navigation consistent on each page. This is one of the most important usability factors that can be offered to your visitors.
    8. The homepage is not your website’s only entry page. Your site needs to make it clear to visitors which page they’ve landed on and its relation to the rest of the site.
    9. Keep your information short and in small digestible chunks. Since visitors are skimming your site use short paragraphs, bulleted lists, and subheadings to make a page easier to scan.

      10. And finally.

    10. Making your website usable to visitors will have a positive impact on your business and will lead to a larger Return on Investment. Estimates on ROI impacts have been as high as 10 fold.

    Contact me if you’re interesting in learning more about usability design, best practices, or how usability can increase your ROI.

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  • 35 Beautiful E-Commerce Websites - Smashing Magazine
    Customers want the shopping process to be quick and easy, and merchants want to increase sales by making their stores attractive and popular. Thus, e-commerce design tends to combine a look and usability that is at once unique and eye-catching.
    (tags: webdesign ecommerce design inspiration)
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