Mobile marketing isn’t a QR code
Nov2011
While working with Tim Hayden, I’ve come to learn just how powerful mobile marketing can be. He and I have spoken a bunch over the last many years, and more formally (in a business capacity) in recent years, and there’s so much more that could be done for your business when it comes to how people interact [...]
Do’s and don’ts of call to action pages
Nov2011
Good call to action pages (including landing pages and sales pages) are an important part of any website that either sells or asks visitors to sign up for something. An effective call to action page can increase conversions and signups by a hundred percent or more (sometimes much more). As designers, we should know exactly what [...]
Top 4 reasons your beautiful website doesn’t convert
Nov2011
There can be many pitfalls on the way to getting traffic to that beautiful site you created. All the design and creativity in the world won’t bring visitors to your site. You have to know a few basic laws of optimizing a webpage for search before the traffic will begin to flow in your direction. [...]
EU bans pre-ticked website boxes to aid consumers
Oct2011
EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg havepassed a set of rules aimed at strengthening consumer rights, which the EU parliament backed in June. They mean online traders will have to disclose the total cost of a product – including fees – and customers will have to actively opt-in to extras. Member countries will have two years to [...]
Write to be understood. Speak to be heard. Read to grow.
Sep2011
One of the sweetest parts of being a parent is finding some memento from your kids’ past. My son Michael made this bookmark, probably in fourth grade. The thoughts are from his teacher and referred to a writing and reading program they’d just started. It’d been pinned to a cork board in our kitchen for [...]
The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience
Aug2011
After web site accessibility, “user experience” (abbreviated as UX) is probably the phrase that most people tend to confuse usability with. Whilst this topic has been discussed by various experts in the respective fields, I feel the need to write about it for two main reasons. The first reason is that several posts I have [...]
A visualisation of US debt
Aug2011
One Trillion Dollars When the U.S government speaks about a 1.7 trillion deficit – this is the volumes of cash the U.S. Government borrowed in 2010 to run itself. Keep in mind it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars each, full of $100 dollar bills. You are going to need a lot of [...]
Annoyingly addictive….check out these musical balls
Jun2011
Balldropping instructions: turn your sound up. Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls. Enjoy the music. Visit site By Chrome Experiments.