Aug 9th 09
UIEtips: The $300 Million Button
In today’s UIEtips, I tell a story about a client who found a way to dramatically increase their e-commerce site’s revenues with a couple of simple changes. While the story is interesting, the story-behind-the-story is just as interesting.
The client had hired us because they were concerned about checkout-process abandonment. Their analytics were showing a 13% drop off in sales, which,...
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Aug 9th 09
UIEtips: Anatomy of an Iteration
The iteration is a basic tool for successful designs. We’ve found that the teams that iterate frequently and effectively are the ones that produce the best results.
Yet many teams don’t know how to iterate effectively. They spend too long building out a design and then don’t collect any useful information to tell if they’ve achieved what they set out to get. They end up deploying...
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Aug 9th 09
Brian Hochhalter on My Interview With Dan Brown
Over at From Chaos, Brian Hochhalter wrote a very thoughtful review of the interview I did with Dan Brown:
Growing documents
Brown begins by suggesting that designers start documents with a basic nucleus of necessary information then adding detail in layers. He also put forward the idea that ideal documentation should be able to give a bird’s eye view and address the road-level details that developers...
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Aug 9th 09
Spoolcast: Ajax Aids Accessibility?
Duration: 23 m | 12 MB
Recorded: January, 2009
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
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Yes, if you do it right, using Ajax techniques can improve accessibility. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Ajax is like most techniques and technologies on...
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