People love new stuff. New clothes. New restaurants. A new website. We buy when we’re sad. We buy when we’re happy. We buy when we’re broke. We buy when we’re bored. That urge to get something new doesn’t stop with physical things. We love anything new. It isn’t a surprise to me that when things […]
Category: User Experience
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Rethinking the Mobile Nav
Creating experiences for mobile devices is all the rage right now. However, poor experiences on mobile devices are the source of my rage. Grrrrr. I’ve recently been tasked with creating an alternate mobile navigation solution that healthily accommodates racks on racks of sub-menus. The current solution is an accordion style menu that increases in […]
Letter from a UXer
People think that I’m not on their team. They think I want to tell them no. Or that I want to determine how much of that dreaded content gets on the page. Or remove those really cool graphics they’ve been working on. Or remove functionality because it gets in the way. While I could tell […]
Why People Don’t Read Your Content
You know what I don’t understand? Why people say this: “People don’t actually read text on websites.” … … … If I had a bottled hour of sleep for every time I heard that, I’d never need to go to bed again. Dead serious. And I LOVE sleep. Yes, there are people who don’t […]
Why Content First Beats Mobile First
When I interviewed for my most recent job as a Web Developer, which ultimately turned into a UX/UI Developer role, I was asked if I take the position of mobile first or desktop first. By that time I had already considered that debate as having been beaten worse than the dead horse analogy and was […]