If I was going to write book of web principles certainly one of my top ten principles would be Users Hate Change If you’ve been on Facebook the day a change is made you’ve certainly seen it in your news feed.  Today, for example, Facebook changed up the contents of [...]

The latest browser usage reports have google’s Chrome browser being used by nearly one out of every 10 users online with Firefox gathering around a 23 percent market share and IE at 57 percent. When I first saw this report I wondered about regional variations in browser usage, but on [...]

You’ve probably heard of mission creep and home page creep when you slowly ad links and bloat your home page overtime, but it’s also important to remember to be goal focused when you’re redesigning your home page. In a large organization I think  your home page design is often like [...]

Chuck, the SEO rapper, released his Social Media Rap in February, but somehow I missed it. If you haven’t seent it you need to check it out. Personally, I like his  Design & Coding rap better, but I like them all.

Here’s a great article from Smashing Magazine on 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Design.  I’ve worked online in some form or fashion for about 10 years and this article really gets to the heart of a lot that I’ve experienced.  My favorite truths are You need a separate web [...]

It’s so funny to me that I deal with the exact same issues at different organizations whenever I am new– this week it’s new windows! Opening up a new window is so important to people (who don’t understand the web) because they don’t want their users to leave their site– [...]

If you’re tired of asking your family and friends to let you know what they think about your latest design and you don’t have time or money for formal usability testing, you should try out Feedback Army. The new service uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to get 10 random peoples response [...]

MSNBC is showing off screen grabs of their new redesign. It looks like they are dropping their vertical navigation down the page below their top stories module. Also, they are flipping their top story module and listing of top story and within their top story module they are flipping their [...]

Since the beginning of the web, web designers have continually worried about the fold and fought the fold. The fold is the mythical line that denotes what the user sees when they first visit a web site and what the user does not see (below the fold). (I believe the [...]

NYTimes.com general manager, Vivian Schiller, reports that their slide show section has taken off accounting for 10 percent of their overall August traffic. Note to self: Add video AND slide shows to the site. Which one do you think will be easier to produce?