Improving the User Experience
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What Can Design Thinking Do for You?
What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a term that has been around for several years. Attributed to Tim Brown, President of IDEO, it is a type of process for creating products and services that includes the following key steps: Define the problem. This is...
The Truth about Hamburger Icons
What's the Problem? An article from Nielsen Norman Group on hamburger icons that enumerated the problems in using hamburger menus and other potentially obscure (or hidden) forms of navigation. These include: users are less likely to use navigation when it is...
Ongoing Debate: User Experience vs SEO
And the tug of war between user experience and SEO has been a lively debate for years amongst website designers and developers. Achieving the right balance has always been a matter of skill and expertise. Thanks to Google's current webmaster guidelines, good user...
Waterfront Navigator Site Debuts
New York City Economic Development Corporation has announced the launch of New York City's Waterfront Navigator website. Funded by the Empire State Development Corp. and city, the purpose of the site is to act as a one-stop shop for users to figure out which permits...