Monthly Archives: April 2008

Web site design overview

By Mark Anderson | Published: April 30, 2008
Web Design From Scratch offers a great high level view of designing a site. Here’s the skinny: Know what you’re doing Know what the site needs to do Know what the site’s visitors want Get a good picture of the personality and style of the web site Sketch out highly successful scenarios Organise views into a site map Sketch the essential features [...]
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Designing using information patterns

By Mark Anderson | Published: April 22, 2008
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of 37signals‘ approach to application and Web design. There’s something about their approach that is exceptionally clear and easy to use. Not too long ago, I found a blog post on their site that reveals the secret: patterns. I encourage you to give the article a read and refer [...]
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Four Sites Deconstructed

By Mark Anderson | Published: April 15, 2008
Jakob Nielsen analyzes four sites for usability in his April 14 column Four Bad Designs. “Bad content, bad links, bad navigation, bad category pages… which is worst for business? In these examples, bad content takes the prize for costing the company the most money.” Ouch. Let me know what you think. Nielsen is a polarizing figure for [...]
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